Banca Sella said it has become the first Italian lender to obtain a crypto services license from the Bank of Italy under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation. The private bank, which manages 50 billion euros ($54 billion) in assets and has more than 3.1 million clients, said it had completed a […]
Orca, one of Solana’s largest decentralized exchanges, is launching new infrastructure aimed at bringing real-world regulated assets on-chain, as crypto companies move deeper into tokenized stocks, commodities and other traditional financial products. The Solana-based platform announced Wednesday that it has rolled out “permitted pools,” a system that only allows approved investors to trade certain tokenized
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Crypto platform Kraken offers its customers an easier way to make their bitcoin profitable. BTC$75,716.70 holdings without actively selling or managing assets through decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Kraken Earn’s Bitcoin Vault product allows users to earn bitcoin-denominated rewards while maintaining exposure to the BTC price. It is aimed at long-term holders looking for passive income
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A market dynamic that characterized the sharp rise in Bitcoin BTC$75,716.17 and the crypto market sell-off earlier this year is making a comeback: traders are once again favoring dollars over the largest cryptocurrency. This is evident from the trends in their respective dominance rates, a measure of a cryptocurrency’s share of the total market value
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SoFi has rolled out its dollar-backed stablecoin, SoFiUSD, to users of its banking app, becoming the first U.S. national bank to offer a stablecoin directly to retail customers on a public blockchain. The company said Wednesday that nearly 15 million members will be able to buy, sell, hold and convert SoFiUSD within the SoFi app.
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Crypto exchange HTX has rejected UK allegations that it aided Russia’s “illicit financial infrastructure” used to move funds and support the country’s war in Ukraine, saying it had refused a request to list ruble stablecoin A7A5. “A7A5 was attempting to list their stablecoin. However, following our rigorous internal due diligence and compliance review processes, their
Bitcoin BTC$75,724.24 fell to 13th place among the world’s largest assets after falling to around $76,000, bringing its total market capitalization to $1.5 trillion. BTC has struggled throughout 2026, falling 11% year-to-date and nearly 30% over the past 12 months as investor capital has shifted to other high-performing sectors. Precious metals were among the biggest
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Crypto companies and financial technology newcomers have long presented themselves as challengers to traditional banks. But today, many are looking to get a license to enter the very industry they once sought to disrupt: that is, they want to become banks. Dozens of financial companies – industry veterans and nascent start-ups – have applied for
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OpenZeppelin CEO Manuel Araoz said he now considers “all” decentralized finance (DeFi) dangerous because coding officers became “superhuman” when they found vulnerabilities in a paper published Wednesday. The warning from one of crypto’s top security officials comes as the total value locked in DeFi has fallen by more than $20 billion since the start of
Crypto-focused political committees are flexing their growing bipartisan political strength in Texas, spending more than $9 million in races this cycle as Tuesday’s primaries deliver a string of victories to industry-backed candidates from both parties. Houston Democrat Christian Menefee defeated fellow Democrat Al Green in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, after
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