Tag: Crypto

Franklin Templeton Acquires 250 Digital to Launch Franklin Crypto Institutional Unit – Bitcoin News

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Franklin Templeton Expands Into Active Crypto With 250 Digital Acquisition The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, was reported by The Wall Street Journal on April 1, 2026. Franklin Templeton, a San Mateo, California-based asset manager with more than $1.7 trillion in assets under management, expects to close the transaction in the coming months. 250 Digital was spun off from Coinfund in January 2026 as a standalone liquidity and trading strategies business. Christopher Perkins and Seth Ginns, both former Coinfund executives, led that spinoff and will continue in key…

Crypto Pump‑And‑Dump Era Ends Here? Why DOJ’s New Indictments Should Scare Market Makers

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged ten senior staff and employees at four crypto “market‑making” firms with running fraudulent campaigns designed to pump up both the trading volume and the price of certain digital assets. An FBI Crypto-Trap The charges, announced by the DOJ on a Monday press release, include employees from the firms Gotbit, Vortex, Antier and Contrarian. Three of the defendants were taken into custody in Singapore and extradited to the United States. They appeared before a federal judge in Oakland for the first time on Monday.…

Crypto Policy Enters ‘New Phase,’ According to Solana Policy Institute

The Solana Policy Institute, a Washington-focused nonprofit launched in late 2025 to advance blockchain-specific legislative and regulatory strategy, has characterized the current U.S. crypto policy environment as entering a materially new phase – one defined by implementation rather than survival, and by legislative specificity rather than existential debate. Kristin Smith, President of the Institute and former executive director of the Blockchain Association, stated the shift plainly: ‘For a long time we were playing defense,’ adding that the industry’s posture has now moved toward establishing durable rules of the road. We…

Ripple Brings Crypto Capabilities to Treasury Management Systems

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Ripple has added digital asset capabilities to its treasury management platform, allowing corporate finance teams to hold, track and manage cryptocurrencies and fiat balances within a single system, the company said. According to a company announcement, the update introduces Digital Asset Accounts and a unified dashboard that aggregates balances across bank accounts, custody providers and onchain wallets, giving treasury teams real-time visibility into both cash and digital assets. The system supports assets including XRP (XRP) and Ripple USD (RLUSD), with balances updated in real time and recorded alongside fiat transactions.…

Google Cuts Quantum Cracking Timeline 20x, Renewing Bitcoin and Crypto Security Debate

A new paper from Google Quantum AI has compressed the estimated hardware requirements for breaking elliptic-curve cryptography – the signature scheme underpinning Bitcoin and crypto transactions – by roughly 20-fold, moving a long-running theoretical threat measurably closer to an engineering problem. The research, co-authored by Google researchers, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, and Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh, revises the physical qubit threshold downward from prior estimates exceeding 10 million to fewer than 500,000, a compression that forces institutional risk models to treat Q-Day as a medium-term rather than generational concern.…

DOJ Brings 10 Alleged Crypto Market Manipulators to Oakland Court

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Three crypto executives extradited from Singapore appeared in federal court in Oakland on Monday as US prosecutors expanded a wash-trading case that has now charged 10 foreign nationals tied to four crypto market-maker companies. The court appearances mark the latest step in a US crackdown on alleged wash trading in digital asset markets that began with an undercover operation unsealed in October 2024, according to a Tuesday press release from the US Justice Department (DOJ). The DOJ said the cases, which center on Gotbit, Vortex, Antier and Contrarian over conduct…

Interactive Brokers Launches Crypto Trading for Individual Investors in Europe – News Bytes Bitcoin News

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Interactive Brokers (IBKR) announces the launch of crypto-asset trading for individual investors across the European Economic Area (EEA) on March 31, 2026. This service is facilitated through Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited, an authorized crypto-asset service provider, allowing clients to trade assets like bitcoin and ethereum. The expansion provides local investors with an integrated platform to manage digital assets alongside traditional stocks, options, and futures. Clients gain access to 11 leading crypto-assets with transparent commissions ranging from 0.12% to 0.18% and no hidden custody fees. This rollout leverages a secure infrastructure…

Google’s New Quantum Computer Could Kill Crypto By 2029

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Coinbase Institutional: From Policy to Action with Faryar Shirzad & Brett Tejpaul

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io A conversation from the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos on stablecoins, regulation, and institutional adoption. __ At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. ✅ Subscribe to our channel here: #coinbase #crypto #bitcoin #blockchain __ This content is being provided to you for informational purposes only. Nothing discussed in this video is intended to be investment advice. This content, and any information contained therein, does not constitute a recommendation by Coinbase to buy, sell or…