Coinbase (COIN) said Thursday it had received initial approval for a national trust company charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Bloomberg reported, marking a step toward … [+1631 chars]

Coinbase’s conditional OCC approval moves it closer to operating as a federally regulated crypto custodian, pending compliance and final review.

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Coinbase wins initial bank regulator nod for trust charter, boosting custody push

Ripple on Thursday introduced native digital asset capabilities inside its enterprise treasury management system, letting corporate finance teams hold, view and manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditi… [+1739 chars]

The treasury management system, built on Ripple's 2025 acquisition of GTreasury, lets CFOs view and manage digital assets alongside fiat in a single dashboard without separate custody or wallet infrastructure.

Ripple Treasury puts XRP and RLUSD inside corporate finance for the first time

Tokenization has become one of crypto's favorite buzzwords, but Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said investors should think about it less as a single trade and more as a long roadmap with diffe… [+2829 chars]

Investors looking to bet on tokenization should think in phases, with institution-friendly networks like Canton likely winning first and Avalanche, Ethereum capturing more upside later, Grayscale's Zach Pandl said.

Grayscale’s research head says tokenization will happen in waves and explains how to play it

Keyrock, a Brussels-based digital asset services firm, has raised a Series C round led by SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered, at a valuation of $1.1 billion, the company said in a pre… [+1405 chars]

The Brussels-based digital asset firm said the new capital will bolster its balance sheet and support expansion and acquisitions.

Crypto investment firm Keyrock valued at $1.1 billion in Series C led by SC Ventures

On Tuesday, March 19, the SEC issued joint guidance with the CFTC to finally provide clarity about how the securities laws apply to digital assets. On many issues, including staking and meme coins, t… [+6749 chars]

The regulatory agency’s reset is real, but the new details stop short of the full course correction the industry needs, say Gibson Dunn attorneys.

The SEC’s latest crypto guidance still leaves too much unsaid

Anthropic is testing the most powerful AI model it has ever built, and the world wasn't supposed to know yet.
A data leak reported by Fortune on Thursday revealed that the AI lab behind Claude has t… [+3005 chars]

A draft blog post left in an unsecured data cache revealed a new model tier called Capybara that Anthropic says is more capable than anything it has built, with the company flagging "unprecedented" cybersecurity risks.

Here's what next as Anthropic's most powerful AI model leaked via unsecured data cache

Ripple is overhauling how it secures the XRP Ledger, and AI is at the center of the effort.
Its engineering team outlined a new AI-driven security strategy for the XRP Ledger in a detailed post earl… [+3406 chars]

The next XRP Ledger release will be dedicated entirely to bug fixes and improvements.

Ripple turns to AI to stress-test the XRP Ledger as institutional use cases scale

Vienna-based crypto broker Bitpanda is launching a new blockchain network aimed at bringing tokenized assets into Europes regulated financial system, as institutions look to move toward always-on mar… [+2208 chars]

The Vienna-based firm is joining the growing race joins race to build compliant blockchain rails for traditional securities like equities and funds.