TradFi & Fintech

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.

The world's largest derivatives exchange flipped its cryptocurrency futures and options to always-on at 4 p.m. CT Friday, posting roughly $50 million in notional volume over the inaugural weekend and bringing a new Bitcoin volatility contract live alongside it.

The official corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation is plugging DOGE into the same OCC-regulated brokerage stack that already powers crypto on PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers and Mercado Libre.

Five years after pulling synthetic stock tokens under regulatory pressure, the world's largest crypto exchange opened zero-commission trading in 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for eligible non-US users and lined up an ADGM-issued bStocks tokenization layer on BNB Chain.

A Citi GPS report shared with reporters ahead of Proof of Talk in Paris pencils in a 300-fold expansion in tokenized real-world assets, anchored on 10% of T-bills, 3% of U.S. stocks, and a $1.9 trillion stablecoin float by the end of the decade.

Block's payments app, home to 59 million monthly active users, now supports sending and receiving USDC across four blockchain networks with no wallet setup required, even as Jack Dorsey admits he doesn't like it.

SoFiUSD, first launched in December for enterprise clients, is now live inside the SoFi app — making it the first stablecoin issued by a US national bank available directly on a consumer banking platform.

The payments giant, which processed nearly $11 trillion in volume last year, secured one of the US's most demanding state crypto licenses as it moves to settle transactions in digital assets.