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The bank will hold bitcoin, ether, USDC, EURC and EURAU for European institutions, with go-live planned for this year and still subject to regulatory clearance. One of the three stablecoins comes from a venture Deutsche Bank's own asset manager helped set up.

BitGo picked up roughly 250 institutional client relationships and 30 staff. The seller kept a data centre pipeline it says runs past three gigawatts.

The week ending Friday was the strongest for US spot bitcoin funds since October 2025. Fidelity took $293 million, VanEck's HODL bled $16 million.

Wintermute's mid-year report shows institutional counterparties handled 72 per cent of its spot OTC volume in H1 2026. The universe of tokens they touched grew only 24 per cent in two years against 76 per cent for retail.

The July total sits at $205 million in net inflows, less than Ether funds have pulled in the same weeks. BlackRock's new staked ETH product drew $100 million on day one.

Tom Lee's public miner added another 40,000 ETH on Monday and pushed its treasury above 5.78 million tokens. Roughly 85 per cent of the stack is already staked through MAVAN, generating an annualised $235 million.

US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $265.7 million of net inflows on 6 July, the second consecutive session above $200 million and the strongest institutional signal since May. IBIT alone pulled in $209.4 million.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US closed April with $1.97 billion in net inflows, the strongest month of 2026, with BlackRock's IBIT contributing nearly all of it. The final four sessions, however, produced more than $400 million in outflows — a clue about who actually owns the trade.

Coinbase Asset Management opened a stablecoin-linked institutional credit fund on Thursday, with investors able to hold their shares either through traditional channels or as tokens minted on Ethereum, Solana or Base via Superstate's FundOS platform.

The $12 trillion brokerage has begun a phased rollout of Schwab Crypto, offering direct bitcoin and ether trading through the same interfaces its clients already use for equities, with Paxos handling execution and custody sitting at its Premier Bank subsidiary.

Bitmine moved roughly $320 million worth of ether into staking over 48 hours, putting more than 70 per cent of its nearly five million ETH hoard to work generating yield — and positioning itself to earn $330 million a year from validator rewards alone.

The first spot bitcoin ETF from a major US bank has drawn $103 million in net inflows within its opening week, charging 0.14 per cent — eleven basis points below BlackRock's dominant IBIT fund.

The tokenised Treasury market has grown 37-fold since early 2023, with Circle's USYC fund now leading BlackRock's BUIDL by $250 million as institutional demand outpaces stablecoin growth in absolute terms for the first time.

The conditional charter for Coinbase National Trust Company would let the exchange offer institutional-grade digital asset custody under a single federal framework, joining Circle, Paxos and Fidelity in the first cohort of federally chartered crypto custodians.

The tokenisation platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund has added TRON to its multichain distribution strategy, gaining access to a network that processed $7.9 trillion in transfers last year.

Morgan Stanley's MSBT spot bitcoin ETF debuted on NYSE Arca with a 0.14 per cent fee — undercutting BlackRock's dominant IBIT — and attracted $34 million in first-day inflows, placing it in the top 1 per cent of all ETF launches this year.

The $1.5 trillion asset manager will run active crypto strategies under a new Franklin Crypto unit, with part of the acquisition settled in tokenised money-fund shares — a first for traditional finance M&A.

CME Group will list Avalanche and Sui futures on 4 May, extending its regulated crypto derivatives lineup to nine assets as the exchange prepares to move all digital asset products to round-the-clock trading later that month.

Europe's biggest digital asset manager has secured a US public listing through a SPAC deal with Vine Hill Capital, creating a $1.2 billion entity trading under the ticker CSHR.

BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC account for $329 million of the day's total as spot Bitcoin ETF flows rebound from a sluggish March.

A Galaxy Digital report finds 40 percent of publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies trade below net asset value, with late entrants most exposed to forced liquidation or merger.

Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin Trust is expected to begin trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT as early as this week, with a 0.14 percent annual fee that undercuts BlackRock's market-leading fund and marks the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major US bank.

Ripple launches Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury features, allowing corporate finance teams to manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditional fiat currencies within a single treasury management system.

Stablecoin issuer Circle printed $3.25 billion of USDC on the Solana network in seven days, the largest weekly issuance of 2026, as institutional capital flows increasingly favour the high-throughput blockchain over Ethereum for settlement and DeFi activity.

The global stablecoin market reached a record $317 billion in total supply in early April 2026, while cumulative transaction volume in 2026 has surpassed $7.2 trillion — exceeding the annual throughput of the US Automated Clearing House system and cementing stablecoins as a systemic layer of digital finance.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule creates a fiduciary safe harbour for plan managers who complete a defined prudent evaluation process before adding cryptocurrency and alternative assets to retirement plans, potentially unlocking the largest pool of retail capital in the world for digital asset investment.

The world's largest asset manager has filed an amended S-1 with the SEC for a covered-call Bitcoin ETF that would generate income by writing options on its flagship IBIT holdings, signalling a new phase in institutional crypto product development.

Goldman analyst James Yaro says the return of $1.32 billion in March ETF inflows and receding forced liquidations indicate a cyclical floor for Bitcoin near $67,000.

Japan's FSA is advancing a sweeping overhaul that reclassifies 105 major cryptocurrencies as financial products, cutting the maximum tax rate from 55% to a flat 20%.

The $12 trillion brokerage confirms a June 2026 launch of direct spot BTC and ETH trading, intensifying competition with crypto-native exchanges.