The last major holdout just flipped the switch on crypto for millions of accounts that used to only touch blue chips and bond ladders. Charles Schwab launched "Schwab Crypto" to its first wave of eligible retail clients, offering spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading starting Tuesday
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Wall Street's biggest banks are now in an arms race to own the plumbing underneath stablecoins. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury money market fund on Ethereum powered by Kinexys Digital Assets, investing in US Treasuries and overnight repos.
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A Manhattan judge just gave DAOs legal permission to govern, even when the assets they're voting on are frozen in a terrorism lawsuit.
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The gap between owning crypto and using it like a real financial instrument just got narrower for institutions that have been watching from the sidelines.
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The stablecoin king just built its own highway and charged everyone else for an on-ramp. Circle launched Arc, a new blockchain valued at $3B, backed by a $222M token presale that positions USDC's issuer as infrastructure owner, not just tenant.
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The AI company building the models that might replace knowledge work just told speculators they don't own what they think they own.
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JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund in a week when BlackRock beat them to the headline. JPMorgan filed to launch JLTXX, a new tokenized Treasury-backed money market fund on Ethereum, using its Kinexys platform for token balance management
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Wall Street's two largest asset managers just filed to tokenize money market funds on the same week—not as experiments, but as competing products aimed directly at the $200 billion stablecoin economy they spent years dismissing.
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The $1.6 trillion asset manager that beat BlackRock to onchain funds just picked the exchange that survived FTX as its distribution partner.
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The world's largest asset manager just proved BUIDL wasn't a test run. BlackRock filed with the SEC to tokenize a $6.1B Treasury fund, selecting Securitize infrastructure for the second time after BUIDL crossed $2.3B.
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The stablecoin market is about to get its first proper audit trail, and institutions might actually care this time. Boundary raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Galaxy Ventures to build USBD, launching on Ethereum in early summer 2026
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The Bitcoin NFT gold rush is shutting down its infrastructure before most people realized it even existed. Ord.io, a major Bitcoin Ordinals explorer, and its trading app Zap will shut down June 1, marking another casualty in the Bitcoin NFT experiment
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Traditional finance is now fully on-chain, with leverage, and settling in real-time—no bank accounts required. Ondo Finance launched tokenized stocks on Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, bringing traditional equities to a DeFi perp trading platform with instant settlement
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Four years after North Korean hackers cleaned out $600M, Ronin's solution isn't better defense. It's moving to a different neighborhood entirely.
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A Manhattan judge just taught DAOs how to move stolen money without going to jail, even though the terrorism victims who own it haven't given up the fight.
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While regulators debate whether tokenized securities are legal, traders are already moving $130M through them. xStocks has crossed $100M market cap on Ethereum with 1,000% YTD growth, plus $30M in commodities-linked assets on BNB Chain.
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A crypto payments company just decided that the gap between "I think Trump wins" and "I want to bet on it" is worth acquiring a startup and shipping an AI agent.
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Bitcoin's $81K floor is getting stress-tested by exactly the kind of macro chaos crypto was supposed to ignore. Bitcoin holds above $81,000 as Iran rejects US peace terms and Brent crude tops $104, while a whale dumps $1B in ETH into an otherwise bullish backdrop.
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Institutional money is voting with its wallet, and the vote is: stablecoin clarity matters more than price action. Digital asset funds pulled in $858 million last week, marking the sixth consecutive week of positive flows as Senate progress on the Clarity Act shifted sentiment.
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When BlackRock writes a check for blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin competition just became a three-billion-dollar blood sport. Circle raised $222 million in a presale for Arc, its new blockchain token, with backing from BlackRock, Apollo, and Bullish at a $3 billion valuation.
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