Robinhood just rented a bank
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The interest business
This week, the Open Standard consortium announced Open USD, backed by more than 140 founding members, including BlackRock, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Ripple, Kraken, Galaxy, Robinhood, and others.
Robots got bank accounts
Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), Visa announced Agent Score.
Why DTCC picked Stellar over Ethereum
Stellar becomes the first public blockchain in DTCC's tokenization service, joining Canton in a two-track plan to put $114T of custody on-chain by 2027.
Bitwise just undercut 21Shares by 165 bps
Bitwise just listed Europe's second Canton Network ETP, and undercut the first mover by 165 basis points. The ETP is fully backed by CC, the native token of the Canton Network.
The $10B hammer, the yield ban, and 401(k)
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SEC will let DeFi trade stocks
The SEC is about to legalize the most disruptive shareholder-rights workaround in nine decades. This week, SEC Chair Paul Atkins is expected to release the agency's Innovation Exemption, a 12-to-36-month sandbox.
the Binance ETF
In May 2026, VanEck and Grayscale filed amended S-1 registrations for spot BNB ETFs on the same day.
BCG's new digital asset playbook
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moody's just rated an ERC-20
On 13 May 2026, Fidelity International publicly introduced FILQ (Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund), a yield-bearing, fully digital USD liquidity fund issued through Sygnum Bank's Desygnate tokenization platform.
Russell 1000 goes on-chain
On May 4, 2026, the DTCC publicly advanced DTC's native tokenization service, and announced its commercial launch in October.
The $196M hole Aave didn't code
This weekend, $6.28B walked out of Aave in under 24 hours. Aave is the biggest lending protocol in DeFi, with $26B in deposits.
wall street is tokenizing itself
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European banks are building their stablecoin stack
On April 8, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and BCV launched a joint CHF stablecoin sandbox with Swiss Stablecoin AG. On April 9, ClearBank Europe became the first Dutch credit institution to secure MiCA approval as a CASP.
Wall Street's trust bank sprint
On March 25, 2026, EDX Markets Holding Company filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to charter EDX Trust, National Association, as a de novo national trust bank.
the first on-chain M&A
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Arizona is lending its Bitcoin
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Europe's $2.3T manager went on-chain
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Morgan Stanley is building a full-stack crypto bank
Morgan Stanley is transitioning from a distributor of third-party crypto products to a direct issuer and platform provider.
Wall Street just put stocks on a blockchain
On March 18, the SEC approved Nasdaq to trade and settle U.S. equities as blockchain tokens.