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…
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Bitgo Debuts Unified Digital Asset Financing Platform for Institutional Borrowing – News Bytes Bitcoin News
Bitgo Prime announced the launch of its integrated financing platform in New York on March 31, 2026. This new offering consolidates borrowing, lending, and collateral management into a single workflow to eliminate the fragmented infrastructure typically associated with digital asset financing. The platform serves institutional participants by supporting liquid assets, locked tokens, and staked positions within a secure, regulated environment. The importance of this launch lies in its ability to offer portfolio-based financing that adapts to how institutions manage capital and risk in real-time. By utilizing the Go Account multi-asset…
Chainlink and Anchorage Digital Back Launch of Crypto-Aligned PAC
Seven months ahead of the November midterm elections, Chainlink Labs and Anchorage Digital announced that they were the founding contributors to a political action committee (PAC) “to support candidates working to advance digital asset and blockchain policy in the United States.” In a Monday announcement, the two crypto companies said they were supporting the Blockchain Leadership Fund, a hybrid PAC that allows contributions directly to candidates as well as independent expenditures, such as media buys. Source: Chainlink Neither company publicly disclosed how much they may have contributed to the PAC,…
New Crypto PAC Targets US Digital Asset Legislation With Anchorage Digital and Chainlink Support – Bitcoin News
BLF PAC Launches With Crypto Industry Backing The fund, known as BLF, is structured as a hybrid PAC. That means it can make direct contributions to candidates and run independent expenditures — giving it two distinct ways to back policymakers it views as favorable to digital asset policy. The Digital Chamber, a Washington-based blockchain advocacy group, played a role in organizing the effort. BLF’s founders framed the timing around a period of active congressional debate over digital asset legislation, including a market structure bill that would clarify how crypto firms…
Grayscale Sees Digital Asset Treasuries Staging a Comeback After Surviving Harsh Market Reset – Featured Bitcoin News
Crypto Treasury Firms Regain Stability After Market Reset Market turbulence forced a reset across crypto-linked equities, but Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl indicated on March 26, 2026, that digital asset treasuries, or DATs, are regaining stability after months of pressure. The analysis points to structural adjustments that helped firms recover from steep valuation declines. After many DATs fell to trading below the value of their crypto holdings in late 2025, companies introduced targeted changes to restore investor confidence and operational footing. Zach Pandl wrote: “There are pros and cons…
Anchorage Digital Integrates TRX, Expanding Institutional Access to Regulated Custody on TRON – Press release Bitcoin News
PRESS RELEASE. San Francisco, March 26, 2026 — Anchorage Digital, home to America’s first federally chartered crypto bank, today announced that it will now support the TRON Network, bringing secure, institutional-grade custody and infrastructure to one of the largest and most widely used networks in crypto. TRON Network is governed by TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications ( dApps). Through this integration, institutions will be able to custody TRX, the native utility token of the TRON network,…
BTCC Wins Most Secure Digital Asset Exchange by Pan Finance, Marking 15 Years of 0 Security Breaches
March 26th, 2026 – LODZ, Poland BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, is proud to announce it has been awarded the Most Secure Digital Asset Exchange (2025) by Pan Finance, a trusted source of global financial intelligence with a readership of over 200,000 across 150 countries. The recognition comes as BTCC celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2026, a milestone defined by an unmatched security record in the industry. Since its founding in 2011, BTCC has never suffered a single security breach. Across 15 years of operation serving over 11 million…
a First for a Sitting G7 President at an Institutional Digital Assets Conference – Press release Bitcoin News
PRESS RELEASE. The French head of state will address stablecoins, the digital euro and Europe’s role in the new global financial architecture. PARIS, March 2026: President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a special address at Paris Blockchain Week 2026, taking place April 15–16 at the Carrousel du Louvre, becoming the first sitting G7 head of state to speak at an institutional conference dedicated to digital assets. This announcement marks a historic milestone and confirms France’s position as the institutional driving force behind digital finance in Europe. President Macron will address the…
STS Digital Unveils Structured Products Platform in Partnership With Kraken – News Bytes Bitcoin News
STS Digital, a derivatives trading firm, announced the launch of its global Structured Products platform on 25 March 2026 in Hamilton, Bermuda. The platform serves banks, institutional investors, and family offices by providing risk-managed exposure to a subset of 400 digital asset tokens. This initiative follows a recent collaboration where Kraken launched Dual Investment, leveraging STS Digital’s yield enhancement capabilities for bitcoin and ether. The new framework operates under a Digital Asset Business Act (DABA) M License issued by the Bermuda Monetary Authority to ensure high regulatory standards. It offers…
Company Partnering with Marshall Islands to Boose Digital Sovereign Bond
The company behind the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ universal basic income (UBI) program using a US dollar-pegged sovereign financial instrument has attracted some significant crypto-tied backers. In a Tuesday notice shared exclusively with Cointelegraph, M1X Global announced that it had launched following a $3 million angel investment round by current and former executives connected to crypto and financial services companies. According to the company, the funding will support the development and adoption of the USDM1 digital sovereign bond which allows citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to…