The OCC-chartered crypto bank will hold borrower collateral in segregated custody and run real-time margining for Ethena's overcollateralized loan book, configuring DeFi-native lending around bank-grade controls.

The Solana Foundation has deployed a single onchain program that any merchant, payroll operator, or wallet can build recurring billing, capped agent allowances, and contractor pulls on top of, putting a native primitive into the rail layer that Stripe Billing, Recurly, and the card networks own offchain.

Crypto is entering a new phase — and institutions, not retail, are driving it. As regulatory clarity arrives, the largest institutions in the world are moving from the sidelines into the market. The thesis from our guest: sentiment is poor, but fundamentals are improving; a coiled spring.

The exchange's venture arm bought ENA tokens directly on the open market rather than through a private round, the first such disclosed purchase, alongside a partnership to push Ethena's onchain dollar and savings products into Coinbase's userbase.

The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on a network with 383 million accounts and roughly $90 billion in circulating stablecoins.

The retail brokerage's first Canadian footprint comes via a year-late buyout of the operator of Bitbuy and Coinsquare, adding roughly 300,000 funded crypto customers in a single transaction.

Galaxy is bringing block-size, principal-counterparty execution to Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts, anchored by a $10 million swap that lets crypto hedge fund Arca hedge regulatory exposure to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.

The Dallas-based payments company is now the issuer of a U.S. dollar token on a public chain, with Stripe-owned Bridge as the regulated minter, M0 smart contracts handling supply, and Fireblocks holding the float.

Charles Schwab will extend Schwab Crypto from retail to its registered-investment-advisor clients by the middle of 2027, putting Bitcoin trading and storage inside the country's largest RIA custody platform.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH, eliminating forced liquidations and letting synthetics rely on slow, prediction-market-style oracles.