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Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps
TradFi & Fintech

Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps

The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.
Fed, OCC and FDIC Strip 'Reputation Risk' From 15 Interagency Guidance Documents
Regulation & Politics

Fed, OCC and FDIC Strip 'Reputation Risk' From 15 Interagency Guidance Documents

Tuesday's joint action by the three tier-1 US bank regulators completes the rewrite of supervisory text that crypto firms and Wyoming digital-asset bank Custodia spent years alleging was used to push lawful businesses out of the banking system.
NYDFS and European Banking Authority Sign Cross-Atlantic Stablecoin Supervision MoU
Regulation & Politics

NYDFS and European Banking Authority Sign Cross-Atlantic Stablecoin Supervision MoU

The 22-page memorandum is the first formal supervisory link between the New York regulator licensing Circle, Paxos and Gemini and the EU body overseeing MiCA stablecoin issuers, committing both authorities to quarterly reserve-data exchange as the GENIUS Act and MiCA move toward enforcement.
US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'
Regulation & Politics

US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, along with their leadership, naming the exchanges as the digital-asset rails for Iran's central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade
TradFi & Fintech

Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.
Anchorage Digital Becomes Collateral Manager for Ethena's Institutional Lending
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Becomes Collateral Manager for Ethena's Institutional Lending

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.
Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances
Blockchains

Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances

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.
 Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto
Podcast

Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto

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.
Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal
DeFi

Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal

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.
Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network
TradFi & Fintech

Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network

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.