SBI Crypto Fund I began operations Aug. 1 with a target size of about ¥3 billion, bringing SBI, gumi and Daiwa investors into a three-year strategy spanning Bitcoin, major altcoins, staking and hedging.
Sberbank plans to build crypto trading infrastructure and open a digital depository by Dec. 1, adding custody and off-chain ownership records to Russia's new regulated market framework.
Zama has opened an invite-only confidential RFQ beta on Ethereum, using encrypted trade intents and sealed bidding as $ZAMA climbed to $0.053.
Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, adding API and web-console access for institutional RLUSD minting, redemption, bridging and transaction tracking.
Kraken Institutional has partnered with Upshift to offer permissioned, custom onchain yield vaults inside its qualified-custody service for eligible clients.
Coinbase says Deribit's next-generation matching engine will enter full production July 20, ahead of a planned September migration of International Exchange derivatives activity.
Galaxy launched Curator, a Morpho-based institutional vault offering distributed through Fireblocks Earn, targeting idle stablecoin balances with two risk tiers.
Bank of America named Sonali Theisen to lead its global digital-assets platform, putting tokenized deposits, stablecoins, custody and crypto settlement under a dedicated markets mandate.
Kraken has launched USD-settled Bitcoin and Ether options for eligible professional and institutional clients, with portfolio margin and more than 30 collateral currencies.
Marex has begun accepting USDC for initial margin in regulated derivatives clearing, with Coinbase providing custody, conversion and daily reporting.
Citadel Securities has made a $400 million strategic investment in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion in its first institutional funding round.
T. Rowe Price has launched TKNZ on NYSE Arca, bringing an actively managed crypto product with a $15 million seed portfolio and a 0.75% net fee to market.
Former Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers launched EthSystems to build confidential stablecoin, bond and settlement systems for banks on Ethereum.
Gauntlet closed a 125 million Series C led by SBI Holdings, targeting stablecoin expansion and institutional DeFi vault infrastructure.
EDX Markets raised $76 million from SBI Holdings as the institutional crypto venue expands clearing, settlement and its pending EDX Trust bank plan.
Standard Chartered became the first G-SIB to offer integrated USDC minting and redemption, giving institutions bank-led stablecoin access from Dubai.
Franklin Templeton completed its 250 Digital acquisition and launched Franklin Crypto, adding active crypto strategies to its $1.78 trillion platform.
Moody's credit ratings are now machine-readable on Solana through Alphaledger, bringing institutional bond-risk data directly into tokenized assets.
Franklin Templeton filed two Bitcoin DRIP ETFs that would pair U.S. stocks with a 5% BTC allocation and systematically redirect dividends into bitcoin.
CME's 24/7 crypto futures and options launch traded more than 7,200 contracts and about $50M notional in its first weekend.
CME's Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures launch June 8, giving traders one regulated futures contract tied to BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, LINK and XLM.
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