One cent on XRP moves Evernorth's 473 million token treasury by $4.73 million
Evernorth, listed on Nasdaq as XRPN, held about 473 million XRP and raised about $300 million in cash when its Armada merger closed. The Q4 deployment is the first test of whether the treasury earns anything beyond price exposure.
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- Evidence40
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Evernorth, the Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury company, will deploy portions of its 473 million XRP through Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken and BitGo from Q4 2026. Its yardstick is XRP per share, so the yield on deployed tokens has to outrun any losses from counterparties.
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Two DWF Labs-linked firms are suing BitGo for $141 million, alleging it sold tokens it had bought before their agreed lock-ups ended. The claim treats BitGo as a buyer of discounted tokens, so the exposure sits with sellers who relied on its promise to wait.
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Anchorage opens a qualified-custody route for bitcoin treasury firms into Sui's Hashi
Anchorage Digital is a day-one partner on Sui's Hashi, which opens in phases later this month with more than $500 million pledged. Treasury firms can post bitcoin held in qualified custody as collateral, though the cash they raise depends on stablecoin lenders on Sui.
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- Evidence45
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Fireblocks wants custodians to shrink Bitcoin's quantum exposure one spend at a time
Fireblocks' Michael Gutkin ties Bitcoin's quantum risk to exposed public keys, citing estimates that 6.7 million to 7 million BTC already sit behind them. Custodians can apply his remedy, fresh addresses plus a running count of exposed coins, without waiting for BIP 360.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, a cap that leaves it about $200 million of purchases at Wednesday's price. For ether's flows, that limit matters more than Tom Lee's bull call, because one of the token's steadiest buyers is close to done.
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President Trump's administration put up to $215 million behind a fault-tolerant quantum computing contest in a science package of more than $6 billion. Nearly all of it pays out only after a team has a working error-corrected machine, so startups still fund the build privately.
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Europol named wallet keys as crypto's main quantum exposure, a risk that covers the 6.04 million bitcoin Glassnode counts with public keys already on-chain. Its report says those coins can be protected only by moving them before an attack, so the length of the migration queue sets the deadline for custodians.
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Sui Foundation has more than $500 million committed to Hashi, its native bitcoin collateral network, from over 20 partners including Anchorage Digital. Those pledges are launch liquidity for an October rollout, so what counts is how much bitcoin institutions actually post once promises have to become deposits.
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BitGo and HashKey Cloud widened their July staking deal into trading, custody and tokenized assets, with staking starting on ETH and SOL. No fees, launch dates, first clients or asset targets were given, so the first test is BitGo's own staking figures.
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- Evidence55
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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe wants trading, lending and settlement built on its custody business to produce 100% of the NYSE-listed firm's revenue. The goal would make BitGo a lender and settlement agent to the funds whose crypto it already holds.
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BitGo's chief says the stalled CLARITY Act leaves crypto custody risk bundled inside exchanges
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe says the Senate's 50-49 vote that stalled the CLARITY Act lets single firms keep running an exchange, a brokerage and custody together. He thinks a failure at such a venue could be worse than Lehman, and reviving the bill means finding votes it lacked in September.
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- Evidence40
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- Confidence45
Anchorage Digital cuts 17% of staff months after Tether valued it at $4.2 billion
Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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- Evidence35
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Four global crypto infrastructure firms court Korean banks before any vendor dominates the stack
MoonPay is pursuing stablecoin, remittance and payments work with KB Financial, Woori Bank and KakaoBank after opening a Korean entity in September. Its one-vendor pitch faces three other global entrants and four Korean firms, most of them selling banks a single layer of the stack.
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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million from a US listing at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, below the $7 billion its 2023 round set. The range opens at roughly the $4 billion that secondary trades already imply, so tokenized stocks and prediction markets have to justify every dollar above it.
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Researchers forge RSA signatures from a hardware security module by making it sign 4 billion raw numbers
UC San Diego and INRIA researchers forged RSA signatures on a 1,024-bit key inside a hardware security module after about 4 billion signing requests. The key stayed inside the device throughout, so for custodians the exposure is in signing settings, starting with the FIPS mode the researchers switched off.
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- Evidence45
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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 hands the second bridge check to the institutions moving tokenized assets
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
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- Evidence55
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World Liberty Trust Company won preliminary conditional approval for a national trust charter. Its business plan takes the issuing and custody role for USD1 away from BitGo.
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The rebate ladder that recruits big exchanges also shrinks the burn: 60 cents of every fee dollar at the bottom tier, 26.25 cents at the top.
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Thirty people and a book of institutional trading relationships changed hands on terms nobody disclosed, which leaves the $4.329bn of quarterly revenue BitGo is now trying to put a spread on as the number to read.
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