Institutional investors have moved beyond the testing phase and are embarking on large-scale adoption of digital assets, according to new State Street research released Thursday. The custodian bank’s 2025 Digital Assets Outlook study reveals that more than half of institutions surveyed expect their exposure to digital assets to double over the next three years, demonstrating […]
Yuma, a development studio and accelerator for the Bittensor decentralized AI (deAI) network created by Barry Silbert of Digital Currency Group, has introduced Yuman Asset Management, to allow institutional and accredited investors easy access to the deAI ecosystem. Bittensor is a decentralized network for AI that rewards people for contributing data and computing power to
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The crypto market has truly matured since its beginnings a decade ago, growing from a niche community to one with growing adoption on both Wall Street and Main Street, marked by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and even sovereign adoption. Yet despite this growth and sophistication, most cryptocurrency market participants around the world continue to cling to
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Ripple is expanding its presence in the Middle East through a new partnership with Bahrain Fintech Bay, the Kingdom’s leading fintech incubator and ecosystem platform, as part of its efforts to integrate blockchain and stablecoin infrastructure into regulated financial markets. The move builds on the license Ripple obtained from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)
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Two Prime Lending issued record bitcoin-backed loans of $827 million in the third quarter of 2025, bringing the total volume of committed loans to $2.55 billion since their launch in March 2024, the company announced Thursday. The lending arm of investment advisor Two Prime has established itself as one of the world’s largest bitcoin-backed lenders,
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The venture capital arm of US multinational bank Citigroup (C) has made a strategic investment in stablecoin payments platform BVNK, the companies announced on Thursday. Citi Ventures joins Visa (V) in backing BVNK, after the payments giant made its own strategic investment in the company in May this year. The companies did not disclose the
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A Luxembourg sovereign wealth fund has invested a 1% slice of its holdings in Bitcoin ETFs, making it the first public fund in the euro zone to do so, according to a representative of the Agency for the Development of the Luxembourg Financial Center. The European countries of Finland, Georgia and the United Kingdom also
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A new crypto infrastructure startup called Block Street has raised $11.5 million to build what it calls an “execution layer for on-chain stocks.” The funding round was led by Hack VC, with support from Generative Venture, DWF Labs and others, including executives from companies like Jane Street and Point72. Block Street’s argument is that trading
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SoftBank Group company PayPay, one of Japan’s largest digital payment apps, has acquired a 40% stake in Binance Japan as part of a new strategic partnership aimed at combining cashless payments with access to cryptocurrencies. The move brings together PayPay’s 70 million users and its extensive merchant network with Binance’s blockchain infrastructure, integrating PayPay Money,
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The Ethereum Foundation is making privacy a formal pillar of its roadmap, expanding its research efforts to a dedicated cluster that now covers private payments, proof, identity, and enterprise use cases. Ethereum has supported privacy research through its Privacy and Scaling Explorations (PSE) team since 2018, with experiments such as Semaphore for anonymous signaling, MACI
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