BNY Expands Regulated Crypto Custody Across The European Union Under MiCA
TL;DR: BNY has expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform to selected institutional clients across the European Union under MiCA. The move follows the addition of its European banking entity to the ESMA MiCA register and gives one of the world’s largest custody banks a regulated route to hold and administer crypto assets in the region.…
Strategy Sets October 29 Date For Its Next Major Bitcoin Treasury Update
TL;DR: Strategy will report third-quarter 2026 results after US markets close on October 29 and hold a live webinar at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. The update will give investors the next full financial snapshot of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. The most closely watched corporate Bitcoin balance sheet has a date for its next…
PowerCompute Mines 8.1 Bitcoin In September After Using BTC To Slash Debt
TL;DR: PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7 BTC after the company used 267.4 BTC to help retire a $22.45 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility, leaving most of its secured debt eliminated. PowerCompute’s latest mining update is a useful reminder that a corporate Bitcoin…
OSL Brings A USDGO Market-Neutral Fund On-Chain For Hong Kong Investors
TL;DR: OSL Group has tokenized the USDGO Plus SP fund on-chain and is providing custody and distribution through its licensed Hong Kong platform. The product is a market-neutral digital asset fund built around USDGO and is available only to eligible professional investors. Tokenization is moving from simple Treasury products into more complex investment strategies. OSL…
Post-Quantum Custody Platform Strongpoint Adds Quantus As Development Partner
TL;DR: Project Eleven and Quantus plan to integrate the Quantus Network with Strongpoint, Project Eleven’s institutional custody platform for post-quantum blockchain assets. Quantus has joined as a development partner, with support targeted for the first quarter of 2027. Crypto custody usually assumes the cryptography protecting today’s private keys will remain the cryptography protecting tomorrow’s assets.…
Robinhood Puts $25 Million Of Bitcoin On Its Own Balance Sheet
TL;DR: Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking its first proprietary BTC holding separate from customer assets. The amount is small relative to Robinhood’s roughly $100 billion valuation, but the company says that is partly the point: the purchase is intended as a signal of alignment with Bitcoin…
Ripple Prime Expands Brevan Howard Deal Into Multi-Asset Clearing And Financing
TL;DR: Ripple has expanded its relationship with global investment manager Brevan Howard, with Ripple Prime now providing multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard funds. The agreement pushes Ripple further into institutional market infrastructure spanning both traditional and digital assets. Ripple’s institutional ambitions are moving further beyond payments. The company has expanded…
Cardano Brings Compliance Rules On-Chain With CIP-0113 Launch
TL;DR: Cardano’s CIP-0113 programmable token standard is now live on mainnet. It gives issuers the ability to build controls such as KYC requirements, sanctions screening and transfer restrictions directly into native Cardano assets, targeting regulated stablecoins, funds and tokenized securities. Cardano has launched a new token standard aimed squarely at one of the hardest problems…
Ethereum Tests 200 Million Gas Limit On Sepolia As Glamsterdam Moves Forward
TL;DR: Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet is testing a 200 million block gas limit as part of work around the Glamsterdam upgrade. The experiment is more than three times Sepolia’s previous 60 million target and is intended to show how clients and validators behave under much heavier Layer 1 execution loads. Ethereum developers have pushed Sepolia into…
Ethereum ETFs Lose $201.9 Million As Bitcoin Funds Return To Inflows
TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $201.9 million in net outflows on October 6, according to Farside Investors. Bitcoin ETFs moved the other way with roughly $118.8 million of net inflows, creating a sharp one-day divergence between institutional flows into the two largest crypto assets. Ethereum’s US spot ETFs just suffered their heaviest day of…