Dubai-based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver and her team parsed every crypto deal in the first half of 2026. BlackRock, Goldman, and Persian Gulf sovereigns all wrote checks to regulated firms.
Franklin Templeton received a no-action letter from the SEC enabling its traditional registered funds to invest in its BENJI/FOBXX fund.
Solana-based DoubleZero looks to meet institutional demands by adding prediction market Kalshi’s order book to its low-latency market data feed.
BlackRock launched Ethereum-based tokenized share classes for select European money market funds using JPMorgan's Kinexys.
Owning shares in these companies fit into Aschenbrenner’s belief power and data-center capacity will be critical to scaling AI.
T. Rowe Price's TKNZ Active Crypto ETF began trading Thursday after the firm filed for the product in October.
Crypto assets fell 36% while crypto equities gained 23% in the first half of the year, with tokenized RWAs hitting a record $33 billion in Q2.
In this week's, Morgan Stanley’s Denny Galindo writes that as the crypto market expands, solana has historically been a better portfolio diversifier than ether, despite being more volatile.
Fidelity International’s Giselle Lai argues that the most compelling long-term use case for tokenized funds is balance-sheet management for large, global institutions, not 24/7 liquidity.
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, FalconX’s Gaspar Martin writes that BTC is reaching a market bottom and is poised for a turnaround.
The firm's head of digital assets will lead Vanguard's crypto-related strategy for personal wealth clients and interact with regulators.
The tokenized fund will enable eligible investors to access NYLIM’s established institutional high-yield strategy.
Over the past six weeks, investors have pulled roughly $5.94 billion from US spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking the longest unbroken run of weekly outflows since these funds first opened for business in 2024. Galaxy Research puts the worst 30-day stretch at $6.35 billion through June 20. Bitcoin has been sliding right alongside those redemptions, and […]
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In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Nonco’s Caue Teixeri makes the case that regardless of which coin ultimately wins, infrastructure is the prevailing currency in digital assets. Then, using CoinDesk's liquidation feed, Liquibit Capital's Alen Pavlović finds that June's forced selling peaked near $68,000, days before bitcoin actually bottomed.
The $1.7 trillion asset manager did not disclose the amount paid for the acquisition of 250 Digital but revealed its plans for a new corporate division exclusively for crypto investments.
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, trusted indexes turn fragmented digital assets into a mature market that big institutions can confidently invest in, writes Kirsten Wegner. Then, the division between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto is disappearing, says Dave LaValle, President of CoinDesk Data & Indices.
Ripple backs Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E with RLUSD and XRP Ledger integration across 34 African markets through investment.
The purchases were likely funded by selling other positions, data shows. ARK is also one of the loudest bitcoin bulls, with a million-dollar target for 2030.
Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up all the attention, from a $40 million insurance reserve in Barbados to an S&P-rated bond deal sold to Wall Street investors by Jefferies. The ETFs answered only one question, which […]
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In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Ben Nadareski writes that to win over big investors, DeFi builders must act like accountable money managers, not just software developers. Then, Stephen Stonberg says that bitcoin holders can survive crashes and protect their assets by earning income through reinsurance.
Janus Henderson took an ENA position and outlined plans for regulated investment products tied to the Ethena ecosystem.
Morpho plans to build an open blockchain-based credit network to connect decentralized finance, Wall Street, and global markets.
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Alex Tapscott on the stalling of the CLARITY Act and how it's impacting the average American consumer. Then, Aisha Hunt writes that crypto will grow by upgrading Wall Street’s trusted products rather than replacing them.
As crypto markets remain weak, fund managers say asset selection, fundamentals, and alpha matter more than ever.
Bit Digital said advances may be funded through an Ethereum-denominated secured credit facility, letting it retain ETH exposure.
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Ravi Tanuku on why the GENIUS Act didn't just regulate stablecoins, it repriced Bitcoin's monetary premium. Then, Jesper Johansen on why looped ETH staking no longer needs a lending market.
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Alec Beckman on why BTC-backed lending is not a crypto story, but a capital efficiency story. Then, Serena Sebastiani on how stablecoins aren’t a crypto product; they’re becoming the settlement infrastructure global finance forgot.
Sean Neville's Catena Labs closed a $30 million Series A to build governed infrastructure for AI agent financial transactions.
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Dovile Silenskyte provides an alternative to the “bitcoin as a risk asset” narrative. Then, Joshua de Vos shares insights and analysis on global exchanges.
Elliptic raised $120M in a Series D at $670M valuation backed by Deutsche Bank and Nasdaq Ventures as TradFi splurges more on crypto bets.