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The announcement by Standard Chartered on March 15, 2025, to launch a cryptocurrency prime brokerage service with its innovative subsidiary SC Ventures was the fundamentally re-infrastructuring institutional access to digital assets and marked one of the most important banking entries into crypto infrastructure in history. Standard Chartered Crypto Prime Brokerage: Institutional Gateway The strategic initiative is a calculated expansion into …

The dramatic change in South Korea’s long-standing strict restrictions on cryptocurrency markets has been a major step towards its newer, more recent reforms. The country ended a ban on institutional cryptocurrency investment that had been in place for nearly nine years, which allowed listed companies and professional investors to invest in crypto assets within certain limits. It is seen as …

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has reportedly finalized guidelines permitting listed companies and professional investors to trade cryptocurrencies. The move comes after a nine-year ban on corporate crypto investment, and complements the government’s wider “2026 Economic Growth Strategy” including stablecoin legislation and spot crypto ETF approvals announced last week. Corporate Investment Framework As per the FSC’s news rules cited …

In April 2025, Ether (ETH), the Ethereum layer-1 blockchain network’s native cryptocurrency, a price that “lowed out” and its price action is equivalent to the 2019 cycle,” market analyst Michal Van De Poppe said. A boom in stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), traditional or physical assets that are traditionally represented as tokens on a blockchain and developer activity on Ethereum’s …

Cryptocurrency market A volatile week. The week was about to close the week at nearly the same level as last weeks, while Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, had a major gain for some altcoins. POL, one of the oldest altcoins, has risen by 39% since last week; AI protocol RNDR and privacy token XMR are also expected to close the …

Cryptocurrency analytics company Alphractal has published a remarkable report on Bitcoin’s (BTC) annual performance. This is a rare pattern, the report says, and Bitcoin’s 1-year percentage change metric shows “the very least significant trend” in its history; limited price movement within the next few days could be key to how the market will move. Alphractal argues that historically, periods when …

Key Takeaways X is developing Smart Cashtags for real-time asset pricing and tracking. The feature allows users to specify assets or smart contracts when posting tickers. X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier said Sunday Elon Musk is to launch Smart Cashtags, the new feature designed to help improve how financial assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies are referenced on the platform. …

Among the most real signs of cryptocurrency adoption are how many unique wallet addresses do you have with a network or token? The recent data shows a significant increase in user distribution between layer-1 (L1) and layer-2 (LL2) blockchains, with some altcoins reaching hundreds of millions of users. BNB Chain (BNB) tops the list, followed closely by Ethereum (ETH) and …

In the past week, Whales have dramatically increased their demand for Chainlink (LINK) by acquiring over 2 million LINK tokens during this time alone. The combined institutional and high-net-worth buying pressure suggests that the long-term future for Chainlink is being’regularly optimistic, confident in its long term future’ while the overall market remains cautious. Whale Clustering Developmental Patterns Last week, there …

But at the beginning of 2026, sentiment for crypto markets has been boosted as prices across large digital assets recover from last year’s long correction. The new data shows retail traders boosting up as ETF headlines and macro narratives are increasingly driving crypto price movements, with retailers increasing their confidence. But the latest social and sentiment data collected by Santiment, …

Key Takeaways Tennessee’s Sports Wagering Committee has issued cease-and-desist orders to Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com. Regulators want the companies to immediately stop offering sports contracts in Tennessee. The Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC), which regulates and licenses online sports betting and fantasy sports, has issued formal cease-and-desist demands to Kalshi, Crypto. The platforms were accused of violating state gambling laws …

Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal made statements to Scott Melker on “The Wolf Of All Streets” that will encourage cryptocurrency investors. Pal says the price fluctuations and liquidity shortages in 2025 are actually laying the groundwork for a big bull market in 2020. Raoul Pal claimed that 90% of market movements are based on “liquidity” rather than narratives or technological …

A pretty bold prediction by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has been made. He thinks Bitcoin and other digital assets could grow faster than the internet did in its early years, he says. Fink wrote a December 2025 op-ed in The Economist with BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein. The use of tokenisation as an example to reshape finance over the next decades, …

In South Korea, an important regulatory process is beginning to take place in regulating the cryptocurrency market. In February, substantive legislative discussions about cryptocurrency spot ETFs will begin with the South Korean National Assembly on crypto spot etymology. The discussions will focus on draft amendments to the Capital Markets Law that would provide a legal framework for local financial institutions …

Andreessen “a16z” Horowitz, a tech-focused venture capital firm, said it raised more than $15 billion in companies and technologies that it sees as critical to secure America’s future and win the next century crypto is still an important part of that mission. But in a post to X Friday, entrepreneur Ben Horowitz (a16z) admitted that China and other competitors have …