Crypto

Circle has announced the acquisition of fundamental assets from the IBM blockchain patent portfolio.  The portfolio comprises over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide, spanning foundational...

BNY, the world’s largest custodian bank, is developing an always-on settlement system that could enable US Treasury transactions to settle 24 hours a day,...

Tether Gold (XAU₮) has been recognised as an Accepted Spot Commodity by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The...

The FCA has published the Mills Review: AI and the future of retail financial services, setting out how artificial intelligence is expected to reshape...

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out its long‑awaited crypto regulatory framework, confirming the standards firms must meet to operate in the UK once...

Intercontinental Exchange and OKX have launched a joint venture to build tokenised financial infrastructure. It comes as traditional financial exchanges increasingly race to incorporate blockchain...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals that would allow certain authorised funds to hold cryptoasset exchange-traded notes (cETNs), while setting out...

Improving access to financial services has long been the goal of institutions across the digital assets industry. One of the main selling points of...

Coinbase and Kalshi, a prediction markets platform, have received the green light from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to introduce perpetual crypto futures. For...

The UK government has tightened its cryptoasset rules, updating legislation to bring DLT‑based versions of established financial instruments within the scope of the Financial...

Bitwise has listed an exchange‑traded product on Deutsche Börse Xetra, giving professional investors access to CC, the native token of the Canton Network.The Bitwise...

Bitwise Asset Management will become the investment manager for the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), its inaugural tokenised fund. USCC, Superstate’s crypto carry fund, was built to...

Ethereum is increasingly being positioned as the default coordination layer for institutional digital asset activity, as the network evolves beyond its origins in crypto-native...

Nomura has reported a sharp rise in institutional interest in digital assets in Japan, saying clearer regulation and a maturing market are pushing mainstream...

Amundi is shifting further on-chain in response to growing institutional demand for digital portfolio infrastructure. Speaking at Paris Blockchain Week, Jean-Jacques Barbéris, Amundi’s deputy CEO, head of institutional and corporate clients division and ESG supervisor, said...

Speaking at Paris Blockchain Week, Tom Lee, chairman at Bitmine, an Ethereum Treasury firm, said the current downturn in crypto markets represents a “mini crypto winter”, rather than a full market cycle.  He noted...