Changpeng Zhao, the former Binance chief executive known as CZ, says legacy banks will become obsolete if they keep fighting crypto instead of adopting it. He said it just as...
Category: Crypto
Crypto Walked So Banks Could Run on Tested Rails
By mid-May 2026, roughly $31.4 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWA, physical or financial assets represented as blockchain tokens) sat on public blockchains, and almost none of it arrived because...
Warren Demands OCC Records on Nine Crypto Trust Charters
Senator Elizabeth Warren sent the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency a letter on May 18 demanding the full charter files for nine crypto firms the agency has greenlit...
Wall Street v. Crypto: Winklevoss Blasts Banks for ‘Sabotaging’ Trump’s Fintech Future
Gemini co-founder says JPMorgan and peers are gutting consumer rights in a bid to kill open banking—and crypto innovation with it Tyler Winklevoss has never been one to mince words,...
Crypto Showdown in Washington: Senate Battle Lines Drawn Over Digital Asset Rules
The U.S. Senate is split, and the heat is rising. On Wednesday, a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill laid bare just how far apart Democrats and Republicans remain on the...
Germany’s Biggest Bank Network Is Bringing Crypto to 50 Million Customers—And It’s Not Chasing Hype
Sparkassen’s DekaBank-Led Crypto Rollout Could Redefine Retail Finance Across Europe Germany’s largest banking group is flipping the crypto script. Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, the sprawling network behind over 50 million retail customers, has...
Germany’s Banking Giant Embraces Bitcoin as Sparkassen Opens Its Doors to Crypto
Sparkassen’s long-awaited crypto shift shows just how far traditional banking has come — and how fast it had to get here. Germany’s biggest banking group is finally doing something it...
South Korea Eyes Banks as Gatekeepers for Stablecoin Launches
Central Bank Pushes for Safer Rollout Amid Crypto Boom and Capital Flight Concerns South Korea’s central bank wants to hand the keys to the country’s budding stablecoin market to banks—at...
Institutions Load Up on XRP as Banking Favorite While AI DeFi Star Unilabs Steals Spotlight
Ripple rides ETF tailwind, but Unilabs’ presale demand is rewriting the script for what a crypto launch can look like Institutional money is finally flowing into XRP. With a green...
Banks’ Crypto Holdings Plummet as Institutions Pivot to Exchange-Traded Products
Global banks are rapidly reducing their direct exposure to spot cryptocurrencies, shifting their focus to exchange-traded products (ETPs) instead. The latest data from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)...