By Shaurya Malwa (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Bitcoin BTC
$115,244.11 is sitting around $113,00 having failed to clear $115,000. Not so long ago, when it was setting new highs and euph… [+13910 chars]

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All Eyes on Powell as Bitcoin Holds Below $113K: Crypto Daybook Americas

Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.
Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, S… [+467 chars]

SBI VC Trade, a licensed Electronic Payment Instruments Exchange Service Provider, said it expects RLUSD to go live in Japan during the first quarter of 2026.

Ripple, SBI Plan RLUSD Stablecoin Distribution in Japan by 2026

State Street, a Boston-based custody bank with $49 trillion in assets under its watch, is pushing deeper into digital assets by joining JPMorgans blockchain-based tokenized asset platform Digital Deb… [+2043 chars]

The inaugural transaction State Street anchored was a $100 million digital commercial paper issuance by OCBC.

State Street Expands Custody to Tokenized Debt on JPMorgan’s Blockchain Platform

Anchorage Digital has moved out from under its U.S. banking regulator's order that it institute a compliance program to protect against money-laundering abuses, with the Office of the Comptroller of … [+1557 chars]

The first U.S.-chartered crypto bank had been resolving the agency's requirements to fix anti-money laundering controls since 2022.

U.S. Banking Regulator OCC Lifts Enforcement Order From Anchorage Digital

Money laundering has long been a scourge of the cryptocurrency sector, and the industry has a new answer meant to demonstrate it can head off major problems before they accelerate: the Beacon Network… [+4696 chars]

An industry-wide project led by TRM Labs is officially going live, and includes law enforcement and the major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance.

Crypto Offers Answer to Money Laundering Crisis: Global Alert Network Called 'Beacon'

SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci's investment management firm, plans to tokenize $300 million worth of its hedge funds on the Avalanche 
 network.The firm is bringing its Digital Macro Master F… [+1988 chars]

The investment management firm is bringing two of its hedge funds on-chain in partnership with Apex Group's Tokeny.

Scaramucci's Skybridge Capital to Tokenize $300M in Hedge Funds on Avalanche

Ripple executives used a policy-related blog post on Monday to argue that digital asset custody has become the foundation for institutional adoption of stablecoins, tokenized assets and cross-border … [+2945 chars]

Ripple distills a recent Singapore workshop into four custody best practices: compliance by design, tailored models, operational resilience and governance.

Ripple’s Global Co-Head of Policy on 4 Best Practices for Digital Asset Custody

The crypto platform Bullish (BLSH), the owner of CoinDesk, said it received $1.15 billion in proceeds from its initial public offering in stablecoins, which was the first for U.S. public markets.
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Stablecoins used in the settlement include dollar- and euro-pegged tokens of Circle, Paxos, PayPal, Ripple and Societe Generale, among others.