TradFi & Fintech
From banks, to asset managers and payments apps, these are the financial firms operating on top of traditional rails and non-blockchain infrastructure.
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Major US Banks Including JPMorgan, Citi and BofA Plan Shared Tokenized Deposit Network
JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and more than a dozen peers have announced a joint initiative to put commercial bank deposits onchain, operated by The Clearing House and targeting a first-half 2027 launch.
BitMine Files for $300M Preferred Stock Offering at 9.5% Yield to Expand ETH Treasury
BitMine Immersion Technologies filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement to raise up to $300 million through Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% cumulative dividend — applying Strategy's STRC capital-markets playbook to a corporate Ethereum treasury sitting on $9.2 billion in unrealized losses.
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Major US Banks Including JPMorgan, Citi and BofA Plan Shared Tokenized Deposit Network
JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and more than a dozen peers have announced a joint initiative to put commercial bank deposits onchain, operated by The Clearing House and targeting a first-half 2027 launch.
BitMine Files for $300M Preferred Stock Offering at 9.5% Yield to Expand ETH Treasury
BitMine Immersion Technologies filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement to raise up to $300 million through Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% cumulative dividend — applying Strategy's STRC capital-markets playbook to a corporate Ethereum treasury sitting on $9.2 billion in unrealized losses.
Western Union Deploys USDPT on Bybit's Fiat Channels in Latin America
Western Union has made its USDPT stablecoin available on Bybit's fiat channels in Latin America, making Bybit the first major crypto exchange to integrate USDPT — arriving two days after MoneyGram launched its own rival dollar token on Stellar.
Visa and Brale Test Privacy-Enabled SBC Stablecoin Settlement on Canton Network
Visa and stablecoin issuer Brale are piloting settlement using SBC, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, on Canton Network, the privacy-preserving institutional DLT, testing whether blockchain settlement can meet bank-grade compliance requirements.
Deel Deploys Stripe's Full Stablecoin Stack to Pay 1.5M Contractors in DLUSD
Deel is the first enterprise to combine Bridge, Privy, and Tempo in a single product, issuing a custom USD-denominated stablecoin for 1.5 million contractors across 150 countries, starting in Argentina.
Revolut Plans 2027 US Bank Launch With Stablecoin Services Built In From Day One
The British neobank, with 70 million customers and a $75 billion valuation, will pair FDIC-insured accounts with stablecoin access on a single platform — a tier-one fintech entering US banking with stablecoins designed in, not bolted on.
Mastercard Opens Card-Settlement Network on Eight Blockchains, Adding Weekend and Holiday Cycles
Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.
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.
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.
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.