TradFi

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe shared his thoughts on the halving and bitcoin ETFs in an interview with Blockworks

Profit-taking among spot bitcoin ETF investors could contribute to a downward BTC price trend in April, one analyst notes

An unwavering bitcoin bull versus a TradFi CEO who has come around on the asset class — both have proven influential in quickening BTC adoption to different groups

The exchange said Monday it would start accepting bitcoin and ether ETN proposals on April 8 after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority updated its stance on such securities

The third and final day of the conference started off with a bang when SkyBridge’s Anthony Scaramucci bashed his former boss

Institutions have hung around the crypto space for years. But now they want you to know they are getting more proactive

Bitwise’s chief investment officer said he expects major wirehouses to start clearing access for the US BTC funds in a few weeks

The FCA said Monday it would not object to such products being offered to professional investors

The end of the Federal Reserve’s Bank Term Funding Program is set to come after the launch of bitcoin ETFs and before the bitcoin halving

Albert Meo, most recently the executive director of regulatory policy at Morgan Stanley, has been named chief financial officer of Prometheum

Snowflake, a cloud-based data warehouse solution, has partnered with Dune to make curated blockchain data available to its clients

Elsewhere, Cowen’s crypto employees moved to StoneX and Nomura’s crypto custody firm CEO stepped down

Banking giant brings a Wellington Management-issued private equity fund onto Avalanche’s Spruce subnet as part of a proof of concept

88% of surveyed investment professionals interested in buying BTC are waiting until a US spot bitcoin ETF is available

A range of traditional finance firms entering the crypto space have done so in recent months via link-ups with sector companies

Fnality’s new network for wholesale payments and tokenized real-world assets reflects TradFi’s continued use of blockchain

Under the standards, stablecoins would be sorted into two buckets: Group 1b and Group 2

Financial market infrastructure giant seeks to facilitate “the enormous promise and potential of institutional DeFi,” CEO says

Plus, crypto job postings decline, and the Boston Fed looks to hire a CBDC researcher

Amid moves by Itau Unibanco and Nubank, the country could serve as “a proof of concept” for TradFi-crypto integrations, industry research exec says

Switzerland-based Pando Asset, which has crypto products trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange, now looks to the US

Siemens the first to use the new offering built to allow “a real-time and a programmable treasury”

Blockchain technology can offer “positive disruption” to financial markets if used properly, according to the CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission

According to Forman, 500 to 1000 different RWA pilots are set to launch in the next couple years