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(Shutterstock) Wells Fargo will launch tokenized deposits this fall, starting with a limited dollar-to-pound exchange for select corporate clients. Payments will run on the bank's proprietary blockchain and be routed automatically through its existing client interface. Round-the-clock settlement and programmable payments are among the capabilities the bank describes as arriving "when fully deployed." Wells Fargo plans to expand to more clients, countries and currencies in 2027. Wells Fargo (WFC)

URPD (Glassnode) Roughly 515,000 BTC, more than 3% of the circulating supply, is concentrated around the $63,000 price level. All wallet cohorts are accumulating, with retail investors and whales holding at least 1,000 BTC showing the strongest buying activity. Bitcoin has traded between $60,000 and $67,000 for several weeks, making $63,000 one of the most heavily supplied price areas. The only larger concentration sits between $78,000 and $82,000, where bitcoin topped out in May. Glassnode’s En

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket) Polymarket is reportedly pursuing another funding round at a $20 billion valuation. CEO Shayne Coplan says the platform aims to become an information market, not simply a betting venue. Coinbase, Robinhood and rival Kalshi are expanding the prediction markets sector. Blockchain-based prediction markets platform Polymarket is looking to raise fresh capital at a $20 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Acco

Intesa Sanpaolo headquarters in Turin (Riccardo Tuninato/Unsplash) Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo cut its IBIT shareholding by 94%, nearly eliminated its calls and added puts covering 500,000 shares in the second quarter. In contrast, it tripled its stake in iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB). Bitcoin slid 14% in the quarter and U.S. spot ETFs saw net outflows of $4.89 billion, while ether slumped 25% with a net $715 million of ETF outflows. Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP), Italy’s second-lar

Dinari co-founder and CEO Gabe Otte (Dinari) Dinari is expanding its tokenized U.S. equities platform to eligible U.S. investors through self-custody crypto wallets. The launch follows Ondo Finance's unveiling of an SEC-aligned framework for tokenized stocks and reflects growing competition in the sector. The tokenized equity market is emerging as the next frontier for real-world assets after the rapid growth of tokenized Treasury funds. Tokenized equities firm Dinari is bringing its blockchain-

BitGo at NYSE. (X/Matt Ballensweig) BitGo is set to replace LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive cross-chain provider for $7.3 billion of WBTC. A migration wave followed a $292 million Kelp bridge exploit, with announced LayerZero-to-Chainlink moves now totaling $14.5 billion. The crypto infrastructure firm will use CCIP for future assets while retaining control over token contracts, rate limits and transfer setting s. Crypto infrastructure firm BitGo (BTGO) is set to replace LayerZero

A new group, Crypto Watchdog, is broadcasting ads to warn of industry hazards as the Senate tries to finish the Clarity Act. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) Crypto Watchdog has suddenly appeared to trumpet about the dangers of crypto in the 11th hour of the Senate’s Clarity Act negotiations, but the group’s financial backing is being kept secret. The organization has been running TV and online ads in the Washington area, linking digital assets with terrorists and drug cartels as lawmakers try to finis

BNY said Tuesday it plans to add staking to its digital asset custody platform through a partnership with Galaxy. The service will let institutional clients earn staking rewards without moving assets outside BNY's custody. The move marks BNY's latest expansion of blockchain-based services for institutional investors. BNY has tapped crypto financial services firm Galaxy (GLXY) to add staking capabilities to its digital asset custody platform, the companies announced Tuesday. The new service will

Coldcard wallet Mk4. (Coinkite) The developers of the Coldcard bitcoin wallet urged users to move their funds amid an exploit that has already drained as much as $114 million from self-custodied wallets. The vulnerability affects certain Mk3 devices set up on firmware 4.0.1 or later and Mk4, Mk5 and Q devices on older firmware. Wallets created using the dice-roll option are considered safe. The flaw, dormant in firmware since 2021, allows attackers to guess poorly randomized seed keys and drain

BTC's so-called fear gauge, BVIV, continues to slide. (TradingView) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. The multimillion-dollar Coldcard hack, anemic institutional demand, and uncertainty in the regulatory and macroeconomic environment are some of the pain points for the crypto market right now. Yet there are no signs of panic or stress in the market, at least not in the continued meltdown of bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index, BVI

Pretoria, South Africa (Kyle-Philip Coulson/Unsplash) South Africa’s National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank are moving towards regulating the use of cryptocurrency for cross-border transactions. A draft rulebook proposes that sending crypto offshore must be conducted through an authorized provider and be reported to the central bank’s Financial Surveillance Department. The two bodies have invited comments from interested parties with a deadline for submission of Sept. 30. South Afr

(CoinDesk) Bitcoin rose to just below $64,000 as the market settled down following the weekend’s hack of Coldcard wallets and sales by major corporate holder Strategy, even as broader sentiment remains in “extreme fear.” Derivatives data show heavy, often hedged positioning in altcoins like ATOM and ADA, while bitcoin and ether futures stay subdued. ADA has surged to its highest level in a month on strong buying from a shrinking holder base and ecosystem upgrades, making it a rare standout in a

(Shutterstock) BlackRock’s new European-focused offerings provide tokenized functionality to a combined $311 billion of assets under management of money market funds across 15 markets. This includes sterling, euro and dollar share classes, BlackRock said. BlackRock (BLK), the world's largest asset manager, is building on its recent expansion of tokenized cash offerings in the U.S. by tapping into a combined $311 billion of assets under management in European money market funds in a sign of the g

Hashdex will close its U.S. spot bitcoin ETF. (Anne Nygård/Unsplash) Hashdex will liquidate its DEFI ETF after Aug. 17, in what appears to be the first closure of a U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund. DEFI, the smallest of the funds, held $14.7 million in net assets, versus $142.4 million for Wisdom Tree’s BTCW, the next-smallest, and $47.08 billion for leader BlackRock’s IBIT. Crypto asset manager Hashdex is set to close and liquidate its $14.7 million spot bitcoin BTC $ 63,420.91 exchange-

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Buddha point, Thimphu, Bhutan (Passang Tobgay/Unsplash) Gelephu Mindfulness City in southern Bhutan hired Toronto-based 3iQ to manage part of its bitcoin treasury using a low-risk, market-neutral strategy aimed at generating long-term returns. The size and source of the bitcoin mandate were not disclosed, amid ongoing questions about Bhutan’s earlier pledge of up to 10,000 BTC and onchain data suggesting about $1 billion has left wallets linked to its sovereign fund. Beyond asset management, off

Jim Cramer (Getty Images) Jim Cramer says he plans to sell all of his bitcoin, citing fears that advances in quantum computing could undermine cryptocurrency security within three to four years. Many crypto traders are cheering Cramer’s planned exit, treating it as a bullish signal given his predictions record of high profile misses. Bitcoin has held near $64,000 despite Cramer’s warning, a Coldcard hardware wallet hack, rising bond yields and sales by major corporate holder Strategy. Jim Cramer

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock) XRP holders can now use wrapped XRP (FXRP) as collateral to borrow Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on Ethereum via a new isolated market on Morpho Blue. The lending pool, managed by Sentora, approved FXRP after reviewing its market behavior, oracle design, liquidity and liquidation capacity under an institutional risk framework. Flare is developing tools to streamline the current multi-step process of minting and bridging FXRP, aiming to let users

A Solana sign (CoinDesk) Solana validators are signaling support for two linked governance proposals, SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553, that would both reduce new SOL issuance and increase the amount of SOL burned. SIMD-0553 would introduce resource-based transaction fees, lifting daily SOL burns from about 650 to as many as 9,000 coins, while SIMD-0550 would accelerate disinflation so the network reaches its 1.5% terminal inflation rate by 2029 instead of 2032. The proposals have backing from 24.94 mill

Bitcoin nears $64,000 as traders look past the fourth Coldcard sweep. (CoinDesk Data) Bitcoin rebounded to nearly $64,000 in Asian trading, reclaiming the $63,000 level after dipping to about $62,250 on Monday. Major cryptocurrencies mostly advanced, with BNB leading weekly gains and ether the lone large token still down over the past seven days. The crypto recovery came despite ongoing uncertainty around unresolved Coldcard wallet sweeps that have drained hundreds of bitcoin, while traders are

Long-dormant bitcoin wallet moves its coin stash. (Whale Alert) A long-dormant bitcoin wallet holding 500 BTC, inactive since 2013, moved all its funds on Monday amid a widening security crisis involving Coldcard hardware wallets. On-chain data show a notable spike in the movement of old coins, some dormant for five to 10 years or more, amid the ongoing multi-million dollar Coldcard hack incident. A long-dormant bitcoin BTC $ 63,974.53 wallet woke up Monday, and it wasn't alone. Several old coin

A senior FBI agent was arrested and accused of stealing about $1 million in crypto. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) An FBI counterintelligence agent with “top secret” clearance allegedly admitted to colleagues that he’d taken about $1 million in crypto from the wallets of people investigated by the agency. The agent, who’d worked in the agency’s headquarters in Washington, was fired and arrested, according to court filings. A supervising U.S. FBI agent who worked in intelligence at the national headqu