SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the US is a decade behind on crypto and that building a regulatory framework to attract innovation is “job one” for the agency.

Fasset signs MoUs with GCC banks
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/107547/fasset-signs-mous-with-gcc-banks?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed

Fasset, a leading UAE-headquartered global fintech platform, and Ajman Bank, one of the UAE’s leading Islamic financial institutions, today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly launch integrated and compliant virtual asset offerings across the region.

Sygnum Bank Middle East launches institutional staking service from ADGM
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/107551/sygnum-bank-middle-east-launches-institutional-staking-service-from-adgm?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed

Sygnum Bank Middle East has today announced the launch of Sygnum Validators - a new service launched from Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) which includes operating institutional-grade validator nodes for select blockchain networks that enable non-custodial staking.

Ripple targets corporate treasury with $1bn GTreasury acquisition
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/46775/ripple-targets-corporate-treasury-with-1bn-gtreasury-acquisition?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed

Digital asset giant Ripple is making a move into corporate treasury through the $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury.

BlackRock takes a piece of booming stablecoin market with redesigned fund
https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-stablecoin-market-new-reserve-fund?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

BlackRock is expanding into the stablecoin market with a redesigned money market fund, compliant with the new GENIUS Act, to provide a secure reserve vehicle for issuers.

Privacy 2.0: Encrypted computing’s blockchain revolution
https://cointelegraph.com/news/encrypted-computing-blockchain-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

What’s the real tension in blockchain, total transparency or total privacy, and how do we unlock both?

‘Dino coin’ season: Why are Zcash and Dash seeing biggest rebounds?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dinosaur-coins-season-why-are-zcash-dash-biggest-rebounds?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Zcash and Dash prices could make an XRP-style comeback as the privacy coin narrative is helping these older “dinosaur” coins break multi-year downtrends.

Wealth managers must adapt to the greatest capital transfer in history
https://cointelegraph.com/news/wealth-managers-adapt-to-the-greatest-capital-transfer-in-history?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

As $83 trillion passes to digital-native generations, wealth managers must embrace tokenization or watch capital find partners who will.

Lost your Bitcoin in California? You might get it all back
https://cointelegraph.com/news/lost-bitcoin-california-recovery-law?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

California’s new law states that abandoned Bitcoin can’t be immediately sold by the state, which may ease recovery and lower burdens on exchanges.

France’s new tokenized stock exchange wants to reinvent IPOs
https://cointelegraph.com/news/france-lightning-stock-exchange-lise-tokenized-ipo?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Targeting the first tokenized IPO launch in the first quarter of 2026, France’s Lightning Stock Exchange aims to become a fully tokenized equity exchange in Europe.

Trustless, with caveats: Babylon’s big Bitcoin DeFi claim
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trustless-with-caveats-babylon-s-big-bitcoin-defi-claim?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Babylon Labs says it has built a system using BitVM3 that allows native Bitcoin to be used as trustless collateral for borrowing on Ethereum, but its trustless design raises questions.

Ocean, Fetch.ai feud escalates to legal threats as Binance restricts deposits
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ocean-fetch-ai-dispute-binance-asi-alliance?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh accused Ocean Protocol of mishandling ASI tokens, pledging to fund class-action suits to “expose the truth.”