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Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, filed an application with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on May 8, 2026, seeking a national trust company charter. If approved, the...
Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott confirmed on May 9 that the panel will hold its markup session for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 on May 14 at 10:30 a.m. EST,...
Kraken’s valuation has collapsed 33.5% from its $20 billion peak to $13.3 billion, and Deutsche Börse just paid $200 million for a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the company anyway. That single data point...
Tokenized stocks moved from pilot programs toward structural market infrastructure this week, as Nasdaq announced separate partnerships with Kraken and Boerse Stuttgart’s Seturion platform while the EU’s DLT pilot regime registered its first fully...
Ripple and the XRP ecosystem are advancing on three distinct structural fronts simultaneously: a plausible pathway to Federal Reserve account access, a new multi-chain architecture for wrapped XRP through an institutional custody partnership, and...
Kraken Financial has become the first crypto-native firm in U.S. history to receive a Federal Reserve master account, the Kansas City Fed confirmed on Wednesday, March 4. The approval gives Kraken’s Wyoming-chartered banking arm...
