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Consensys made its cryptocurrency card, MetaMask Card, generally available in the United States, enabling users to pay with crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted, online or in-store. The card is fully self-custodial, so users maintain control of their digital assets in their MetaMask wallet until they...
Truist’s private wealth business is expanding into cryptocurrency investments, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 25) press release. Truist Investment Services financial advisors will now be permitted to offer spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsored by Fidelity and BlackRock and registered by the Securities and Exchange...
Coinbase now offers stock trading to everyone in the United States, allowing its users to trade stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) alongside the crypto the platform already handled. This move is part of the company’s Everything Exchange vision in which it aims to encompass all...
There’s an unavoidable paradox at the heart of stablecoins’ growth story. The tokenized assets promise to modernize money by making dollars programmable, portable and instantaneous, yet their most compelling advantage may not be technical at all. Instead, it may stem from something more prosaic, and...
Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. The move would happen if the Facebook owner is successful in integrating with a third-party company to facilitate stablecoin payments, the report said. Meta wants...
Cross-border payment FinTech Payoneer applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a digital bank, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24) press release. PAYO Digital Bank, N.A., would be a national trust bank aimed at supporting “stablecoin-enabled infrastructure for global businesses,”...
For banks, broker-dealers, and clearing firms, the primary obstacle to engaging with crypto has rarely been philosophical skepticism. It has instead been the 800-pound-gorilla in the room made up of the balance-sheet frictions digital assets bring with them, and the many regulatory pitfalls still surrounding...
Nvidia is collaborating with several companies to bring accelerated computing and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity systems in the energy, manufacturing, transportation and utilities sectors. These operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) are adopting enterprise networks and the cloud, which increases their exposure...
Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing business as Crypto.com National Trust Bank, Crypto.com announced Monday (Feb. 23)....