Swift's 40-bank blockchain settlement rollout and Stripe's $53B bid for PayPal landed the same week. The real fight isn't tech, it's who owns the wallet.
The UK is splitting stablecoin issuers into systemic and non-systemic tiers. That single classification decision will define your compliance bill, your reserve model, and your product roadmap.
Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 for ETH and SOL ETFs bundles staking rewards at a 0.14% fee. Here's what that means for validators, custodians, and DeFi.
Galaxy Digital is putting $100M of its own balance sheet as first-loss capital behind GOFR, a Bitcoin-collateralized institutional loan product routed through Aave, Morpho, Spark and Kamino.
SBI's $125M Series C in Gauntlet is its second DeFi lending investment in 30 days, following a $175M Morpho round. The pattern matters more than the numbers.
Circle is arguing regulators should treat stablecoins like mobile money, not like crypto. For platform teams, that reframes the entire vendor and licensing map.
Kraken is rebuilding its app around AI agents that monitor markets and execute trades on user confirmation. The pitch: turn retail into high-frequency traders using plain English.