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Fireblocks provides digital asset custody, wallet infrastructure, and settlement technology for banks, exchanges, and other institutions.
Qivalis, a consortium backed by 37 European banks, received a Dutch e-money institution licence and plans to issue a euro stablecoin in the coming months. It must still publish a MiCA white paper before it can issue.
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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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Cardano Foundation put CIP-0113 live on mainnet Oct. 7, letting stablecoin, fund and bond issuers freeze, seize or block token transfers without a hard fork. Depending on an issuer's rules, holders accept that an authorized party can move their tokens without consent.
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GSR is committing $100 million, mostly through a credit facility, to Hare, a new onchain vault business built with Turtle. Its money goes in first as anchor liquidity, so Hare becomes a product line only if outside allocators follow.
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OpenPayd, a London payments firm with $73 million of revenue, expects its Titan merger to close by year-end and fund a US launch by April 2027. With 43 state licenses already bought, the listing mainly supplies cash and shares for the acquisitions its CEO says come next.
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Fiserv went live with Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin, a stablecoin more than 90 local banks and credit unions reach through software they already use. The test is whether they pick it over the conventional transfer in the same system.
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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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Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain in two research projects that track emissions claims on sustainable jet fuel and renewable diesel. With no fuel volumes or timeline attached, the test cannot yet be sized against Shell's Avelia registry, credited with more than 84 million gallons since 2022.
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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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Kakao Pay and KakaoBank signed a non-binding memorandum with Fireblocks for stablecoin infrastructure, the second such agreement Kakao has signed since July, while KB Financial and Toss have already run won-stablecoin pilots.
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The connection lets institutions fund and unwind EDX positions from custody software they already run. The one figure either firm quantified belongs to Fireblocks: more than $16 trillion of activity secured.
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The trail Onchain Lens traced is 2.3% of USD1's $4.17bn supply. The bigger question is the 87% of the coin a February snapshot put on Binance, and the rewards keeping it there.
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The transfer is about 2.7% of USDe supply, so size is not the story. The story is that the two parties able to explain a custody event have both said nothing.
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Two years of SIEM ingestion cuts left the data layer that agentic detection will run on, and 24% of security leaders now rank visibility above staffing as their top barrier.
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Rain, Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle and Remitly have formed the Agentic Payments Alliance with about two dozen members, explicitly modelled on EMV. Plan to conform, not to define.
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A reported breach of roughly 200,000 customer records at Bits of Gold shows what a KYC mandate actually builds: one file worth more than the coins it sits beside.
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