Exchanges, companies and the money behind crypto.
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A conditional trust charter would let World Liberty Financial take over issuing USD1 from BitGo. A trust charter is not a normal bank licence, and "conditional" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Robinhood has switched on crypto trading inside its main UK app, using Bitstamp for the trading and custody. It sits on the same screen as stocks and ISAs — with very different protections behind it.
Israel's largest lender is preparing to offer bitcoin, ether and solana trading in its own app, with Galaxy providing the plumbing. Convenient, yes. But the coins sit with a custodian, and bank deposit protection doesn't stretch to cover them.
MSCI is consulting on kicking "non-operating companies" out of its main equity indexes, and Strategy and Metaplanet both land on the deletion list. Index funds don't get to have an opinion about that.
Tether says KPMG U.S. has been through the assets behind its $180bn USDT stablecoin, and even counted the gold bars. An audit answers one question well and leaves several others open. Here's which is which.
Strategy shifted 1,690 bitcoin into a $108.6m buyback of its own preferred shares. The amount is trivial next to its 840,447 coins — what the money was spent on is the part worth reading.
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