The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced conditional approval for five national trust bank charter applications from five major crypto companies on Dec. 12. Benefiting from this announcement are Ripple, Fidelity Digital Assets, BitGo, Paxos, and Circle. According to a press release, the OCC conditionally approved applications for de novo (brand new) national trust bank charters for First National Digital Currency Bank and Ripple National Trust Bank. The agency also granted conditional ...

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By Hannah Lang Dec 12 (Reuters) - Crypto giants including Ripple and Circle on Friday received preliminary approval from a top ​banking regulator to establish national trust banks, in a ‌major move that could further integrate digital assets into the banking system. The Office ‌of the Comptroller of the Currency conditionally approved two new national trust bank charters from Circle and Ripple, and conditionally approved applications from BitGo, Paxos and Fidelity to convert state trust bank charters to ...

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Chartgate. It's the Democrat's newest failure as they struggle to understand basic inflation charts. Case in point, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy reacting to an electricity chart with quote, "This is important, especially that part about costs going up because Trump is making them go up, not because of natural economic factors." Little does he know, the chart is showcasing their own Biden era failures, showing sky-high electricity prices shooting up from 2021 to 2024.And it doesn't end there. Senate Mino ...

Less than 4 hours to go. ⏰Our CEO & Co-Founder @benbybit joins @calilyliu, President of the @solana Foundation, for a fireside chat at @SolanaConf.Expect insights on where CeFi, DeFi, and Internet Capital Markets are converging next.See you at Absolute Cinema, 17:50–18:05 (UTC+4).#Bybit #CryptoArk #SolanaBreakpoint2025Bybit (@Bybit_Official):We’re excited to share that Bybit CEO and Co-Founder Ben Zhou will be joining a fireside chat with @solana Foundation President Lily Liu at @SolanaConf 2025.Looking for ...

JPMorgan Jack mallers. Photo by BeInCrypto JP Morgan has successfully arranged one of the first-ever debt issuances on a public blockchain, executing a US Commercial Paper offering for Galaxy Digital Holdings LP on the Solana network. The transaction, announced December 11, was purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, with all settlement conducted in Circle's USDC stablecoin—a first for the commercial paper market. Wall Street No Longer Experimenting The deal represents a significant departure fr ...

Gemini Space Station, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMI) announced that its affiliate, Gemini Titan, LLC, has received authorization from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate as a Designated Contract Market (DCM). The approval allows Gemini to offer regulated event-based prediction markets to US customers, according to a press release issued on Dec. 10, 2025. Gemini first applied for a DCM license on March 10, 2020, marking the end of a five-year review process that co-founder Tyler ...

Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of the software enterprise-turned-Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), is facing severe attacks from different quarters. Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy—later rebranded to Strategy—began accumulating Bitcoin in 2020 and even the ongoing crypto market crash hasn't deterred the company from purchasing BTC. In fact, it has doubled down on the long-running acquisition operations and bought 10,624 BTC last week despite the threat of bein ...

The DJT stock price has collapsed this year as the company's pivot to the crypto industry backfired, its core business struggled, and Donald Trump's approval ratings plunged. Trump Media stock was tra... ...