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How the Financial Sector Views Kraken’s ‘We’re the Bankers Now’ Claim
7+ hour, 47+ min ago (846+ words) Kraken Financial gained limited Fed payment access, receiving a Tier 3 master account for a one-year pilot, marking a legitimacy milestone for crypto. Banks warn of uneven regulation, arguing crypto institutions could gain Fed infrastructure benefits without the same capital, insurance…...
BPI Weighs Lawsuit Against OCC Over Licensing of Crypto and FinTech Firms
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (316+ words) The Bank Policy Institute (BPI) is considering suing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over the banking regulator's decisions to allow crypto, payment and FinTech companies to operate under national bank trust charters, The Guardian reported Monday…...
Aon Says Stablecoins Speed Insurance Premium Payments
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (381+ words) Global professional services firm Aon said Monday (March 9) that it collaborated with Coinbase and Paxos to complete a stablecoin insurance premium payment. Aon worked with Coinbase and Paxos to settle premium payments for their respective insurance programs, executing transactions across…...
Treasury Says AI and Digital IDs Can Make Crypto Safe for Wall Street
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (438+ words) In a new report to Congress, the U.S. Treasury cites crypto's main risk as lack of transparency, not the technology itself. The report proposes four pillars to create a programmable compliance layer for crypto. Stronger digital identity systems are also held…...
A $300 Billion Crypto Market Is Propping Up US Government Debt
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (417+ words) Crypto was supposed to be the antidote to the U.S. dollar. Instead, one of its fastest-growing innovations is now one of the biggest buyers of U.S. government debt and regulators, bankers, and the White House are all trying to figure out what…...
From Accounts to Tokens: The Next Evolution of Global Payment Infrastructure
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (282+ words) Stablecoins have evolved from crypto-native experiments into high-performance settlement infrastructure built for transparency and immediacy. As of September 2025, the stablecoin market cap surged to $300 billion'a 75% YoY increase, with Solana facilitating $11.7 trillion in stablecoin transfers in 2025. By early 2026, there were landmark…...
KAST Raises $80 Million to Expand Stablecoin Payment Platform
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (259+ words) Stablecoin payment platform'KAST'says it has raised $80 million in new funding. The company's Series A round,'announced'Monday (March 9), will allow KAST to expand its product, designed to ease cross-border money movement for people and businesses. KAST said this new round of…...
Ex-CFTC Chair Says Clarity Act Will Help Banks
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (414+ words) A former top banking regulator says the cryptocurrency-focused'Clarity Act'will help the banking sector. "The banks need this more than crypto,Christopher Giancarlo, former chair of the U.S.'Commodity Futures Trading Commission'(CFTC), said in a Sunday (March 8) interview with the'Wolf Of…...
Can LayerZero Make 168 Blockchains Talk to Each Other?
20+ hour, 45+ min ago (876+ words) Architecture is shifting to layered models, with neutral, permissionless base infrastructure and regulated compliance and enforcement at the asset and application levels. In the early days of the internet, networks did not naturally speak to one another. Standards had to…...
Tokenized Real-World Asset Value Jumps Fourfold to $26 Billion
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (414+ words) The value of tokenized real-world assets has reportedly increased nearly fourfold in the last year. These assets have surpassed $26.4 billion in on-chain value, up from around $6.6 billion this time last year, per data from RWA.xyz, which tracks tokenized real-world…...