The crypto exchange seeks a charter from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to separate custody from trading and expand services under a regulated banking framework.
Nate Kostar
Nate Kostar is a staff writer at Cointelegraph. He is based in Mexico City and covers topics related to digital assets and blockchain. He is the author of the nonfiction book "The Renaissance Man Project" and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of New Orleans.
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Circle taps African fintech Sasai to expand USDC adoption in cross-border payments The move aims to integrate the second-biggest dollar-pegged stablecoin into regional payment networks to improve cross-border transactions and remittances.
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Lombard taps Bitwise to offer Bitcoin yield and lending to institutional custody Lombard CEO Jacob Phillips announced at the Digital Asset Summit that the platform enables institutions to earn yield and borrow against Bitcoin without moving assets out of custody.
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BitGo, Susquehanna open OTC prediction markets trading to institutions The offering allows institutional investors to trade event-based contracts using crypto collateral, as regulatory scrutiny of prediction markets intensifies in the United States.
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Glider, Ondo launch platform for custom tokenized stock portfolios The platform lets investors create and rebalance onchain equity portfolios while directly holding the underlying assets.
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MoonPay releases open-source wallet standard for AI agents The framework aims to let AI agents hold funds and execute transactions across blockchains, addressing fragmented wallets and key management.
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EtherFi turns to real-world assets for yield with $25M Plume allocation EtherFi will integrate Plume’s Nest vaults, beginning with exposure to a Superstate-backed fund and expanding to a dedicated RWA vault within its platform.
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Animoca invests in Ava Labs to expand Avalanche in Asia, Middle East The Web3 company will provide capital, advisory support and business development to help Avalanche projects scale, with a focus on real-world assets and digital identity.
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Bitcoin finance protocol Hashi launches on Sui with BitGo, FalconX backing The platform is designed to enable lending, borrowing and yield on native Bitcoin through onchain financial services.
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S&P Dow Jones licenses S&P 500 perpetual futures for Hyperliquid The new derivative allows eligible non-US users to trade leveraged exposure to the index around the clock using official data on a decentralized platform.
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Moody’s brings credit ratings onchain with Canton Network integration The move marks an early step toward embedding traditional risk assessment into blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
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Tether launches AI training framework for smartphones and consumer GPUs Part of the QVAC platform, the framework can use non-Nvidia hardware, expanding support beyond the dominant GPUs typically used for AI training.
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GSR acquires Autonomous, Architech as it builds crypto capital markets platform With the combined $57 million deal, GSR looks to integrate token launches, liquidity and treasury into a single capital markets stack for crypto projects.
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World launches AgentKit with Coinbase integration to enable human-verified AI agents The new toolkit from Sam Altman's startup lets AI agents prove they are backed by a unique human while interacting with websites, APIs and other online services.
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Bitmine speeds pace of Ethereum buys, boosting treasury to 4.6M ETH About two-thirds of the company’s tokens are currently staked, generating an estimated $180 million in annualized revenue.
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Ironlight raises $21M to scale marketplace for tokenized securities The Sei Development Foundation joined in the round to support expansion of an SEC-regulated alternative trading system and settlement platform for blockchain-based securities.