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Block, Inc. has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank charter for Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., which would custody bitcoin and stablecoins…

DBS and Citi completed the first weekend cross-border USD payment using tokenized deposits, settling a Saturday Singapore–New York payment in minutes on Swift's Digital Ledger.

Better Mortgage's bitcoin-backed home loans, built with Coinbase, hold pledged BTC in custody for the full loan term — raising custody questions as crypto-collateralized mortgages…

Equity funding for Southeast Asia's blockchain firms more than doubled to $680 million in 2026, but the recovery is concentrated in Singapore and a handful…

Standard Chartered opened spot BTC and ETH trading to institutional clients in the UAE, folding digital assets onto the same eFX rails it uses for…

Hyperscale Data shut down bitcoin mining at its Michigan site under a 10-year AI hosting deal potentially worth $1.2 billion, even as its stock hit…

Strive added 1,800 BTC for $143 million at an average $79,431 per coin, lifting its stash to 23,156 bitcoin and into fifth place among public…

Intercontinental Exchange tapped tZERO as a design partner for its tokenized-securities platform and took a stake in the firm's latest financing round, adding regulated transfer-agent…

Solana validators approved the network's first binding governance vote by a razor margin, doubling disinflation to 30% and tightening the SOL supply schedule, while a…

South Korea's Mirae Asset Financial Group outlined a $109 billion digital-asset business around rebranded exchange Digital X, targeting stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets and security token…