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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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.
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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.
Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act
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.
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar
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.
Schwab Targets Mid-2027 Crypto Spot Trading and Custody for the $5.2T Advisor Channel
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.
CME Group Processes 7,200 Crypto Contracts in First Weekend of 24/7 Trading
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.
House of Doge and Paxos Strike Deal to Push Dogecoin Onto PayPal, Venmo and Interactive Brokers Rails
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.
Binance Opens US Stock Trading to Non-US Users, Sets Up Tokenized 'bStocks' on BNB Chain
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.