Tag: Institutional Finance

Circle is no longer building on public blockchains. It is building around them. Through compliance architecture, proprietary interoperability infrastructure, and institutional partnerships, the issuer of USDC is gradually constructing a ...

For most of its existence, Bitcoin had one value proposition: price appreciation. It paid no dividends, generated no cash flow, and offered no yield in the traditional sense. That is ...

For years, crypto positioned itself as an alternative to the traditional financial system which is a parallel infrastructure designed to operate without banks, intermediaries, or centralized control. But that separation ...

Ripple Prime, the company's institutional prime brokerage platform, is deepening integration with clearing infrastructure tied to the National Securities Clearing Corporation—the processor behind trillions in daily U.S. equity trades. The ...

Rick Rieder, BlackRock's chief investment officer for global fixed income, has jumped to 49% odds on Polymarket to become the next Federal Reserve chair, a dramatic surge from just 3% ...

Yield-bearing stablecoins have become a flashpoint in Washington’s fast-moving crypto policy debate, after Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan warned that trillions of dollars could flow out of the U.S. ...

JPMorgan Chase has warned that stablecoins paying interest to holders could destabilize the traditional banking system by siphoning deposits away from regulated institutions. During the bank's fourth-quarter earnings call in ...

Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin crossed $1 billion in market capitalization on November 21, 2025—just 11 months after its December 2024 launch—making it the fifth-largest USD stablecoin and one of the fastest ...

Bybit has partnered with layer-2 network Mantle and lending protocol Aave to bridge its 70 million users with decentralized finance services, the companies announced Tuesday. The collaboration integrates Aave's lending ...

XRP climbed above $2.50 on October 25 as blockchain company Evernorth Holdings announced plans to raise more than $1 billion for XRP treasury purchases through a Nasdaq SPAC listing—mirroring MicroStrategy's ...