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Franklin Templeton closed its 250 Digital acquisition today, launching Franklin Crypto. The active crypto unit targets pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.
Six state banks authorized for offshore yuan in Shanghai FTZ. PBOC signs 26 e-CNY cross-border deals. e-CNY wallets now earn interest. China bans private stablecoins.
Thai DSI expands probe into illegal bitcoin mining network that laundered $307M annually from scams. Arrest warrants issued for eight suspects as U.S. links emerge.
DTCC plans to tokenize Russell 1000 stocks and Treasuries on Stellar and Canton by H2 2026. XLM surged 51.9% on the news; the valuation story is more complex than the price move suggests.
Allunity's SEKAU stablecoin, backed 1:1 by Swedish krona reserves, launches on five blockchains as the first SEK token under MiCA for institutional settlement.
Three crypto advocacy groups urged Congress to pass H.R. 9175, allowing miners and stakers to defer taxes on new tokens until sale, easing phantom income burden.
Franklin Templeton, one of the worlds largest asset managers with approximately $1.78 trillion in assets under management (AUM), has officially completed its acquisition of digital asset investment fi
Ophelia Snyder says tokenization's real bottleneck is not trading but the back-office systems banks rely on. Two paths exist: build new or retrofit old.
MoonPay's acquisition of Entendre brings AI-driven reconciliation and treasury tools to its institutional platform, signaling a push beyond payments into back-office infrastructure for crypto firms.
Franklin Templeton closes its acquisition of 250 Digital, forming Franklin Crypto. The firm's tokenized assets have tripled to $2.5B, signaling institutional demand.
Securitize filed a declaratory judgment suit against tZERO after a cease-and-desist letter over patents covering compliance and trading infrastructure for tokenized securities.
Ric Edelman says investor sentiment and fundamentals are diverging, with Wall Street deepening involvement and RWA perpetual futures hitting a new all-time high in May.
The Bank of England removed individual holding limits for systemic sterling stablecoins, replacing them with a £40bn issuance cap. Reserve rules now allow 70% short-term gilts. Consultation runs until September.
Fairshake affiliates spent $8M+ on primaries in Maryland, New York, and Utah. The crypto PAC's biggest outlay: $5.5M backing Maryland state delegate Adrian Boafo.
MoonPay buys Entendre to automate crypto accounting. The platform handles 25,000 transactions per month per client and cuts manual work by more than half.
OKX and ICE appointed Andrew Cuomo co-chair for a tokenization venture offering NYSE tokenized equities and ICE futures. Citi sees $5.5 trillion market by 2030.
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit said in a June 2026 notice that it pushed for broader virtual-asset Travel Rule coverage during FATF discussions. The proposal puts smaller crypto transfers i
Securitize preemptively sues tZERO over tokenization patents in Delaware. The outcome could set a precedent for IP disputes in the real-world asset tokenization market.
Crypto-backed PACs disclosed spending over $8 million on media for primaries in three states. Maryland Democrats push back against 'outside spending from crypto billionaires.'
The $1.78T asset manager launches Franklin Crypto after acquiring 250 Digital. The division runs active strategies on XRP, Stellar, Polygon, and Aptos. Its XRP ETF saw $6.7M inflows last week.
The Bank of England published draft stablecoin rules with a £40 billion issuance guardrail. Coinbase's chief legal officer called the update clear and workable.
A wallet linked to the $577M HashFlare crypto Ponzi scheme transferred 10,600 ETH. Prosecutors are appealing the founders' sentence as too lenient.
Anchorage Digital launches tokenized deposits for regulated banks, enabling 24/7 settlement without tech stack upgrades. The blockchain-based service goes live in weeks, but banks face a trade-off between float revenue and instant access.
KuCoin Pay links to Argentina's Transferencias 3.0 and Peru's Yape/Plin. The backend converts crypto to fiat at checkout, bypassing merchant infrastructure.
Three crypto trade groups warned the House Ways and Means Committee not to revise a bill deferring tax on mining and staking rewards until sale. A clean bill has a path; a rewrite kills it, they said.
Bullish listed SoFiUSD on June 22, the first centralized exchange to carry the bank-issued stablecoin. The move opens institutional access to a U.S. national bank token.
Anchorage Digital's new platform lets banks issue tokenized deposits on blockchain. JPMorgan and Bank of America plan a joint network by 2027, targeting 24/7 settlement.
First-year data from Binance Alpha Booster shows 19 projects split between high user growth and pre-launch product focus. Top campaign: 120,000+ deposit users.
Franklin Templeton closes 250 Digital acquisition, launches Franklin Crypto unit for pensions and sovereign wealth funds. Deal settled partly with BENJI tokenized fund shares.
ICE and OKX launch 50/50 JV for tokenized NYSE shares and futures. The deal gives both sides a distribution channel neither had before. First products expected H2.