In a sea of coins, the transfer firm's CEO says that by working with partners to build its own branded coin, it can control more of the related products and lower costs.

There is a difference between combating discrimination and forcing bankers to ignore problems.

The companies are connecting their tools in an effort to streamline the complexities involved in payments that use digital assets and advanced artificial intelligence.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said his agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are working together to usher in a friendlier regulatory environment for technology and crypto firms, a marked departure from the interagency dynamic under President Biden.

The crypto industry thought it could do trust better than the banks, found out it couldn't and realized it needs rules to guarantee trust.

Block's CEO is more bullish on bitcoin, but stablecoins add another option for the payment company's users to build their spendable balances while furthering the company's super app ambitions.

AI could bring about the worst jobs market in the past century; the good news is we have time to figure out what to do about it.

The crypto exchange, which closed its original direct deposit service in late 2024, has brought it back for users to set up automated digital asset investing.

Consumers don't mistrust crypto products because they don't understand the technology behind them. They mistrust them because they have seen them fail under pressure. The path forward will be slow and incremental.

The use of cryptocurrency products will only go truly mainstream when everyday consumers feel confident that their assets are not at risk of disappearing because of a mistake or an oversight.

Crypto firms are becoming the kinds of trusted third parties bitcoin was created to get around, raising the question of what digital currencies are even for.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., flatly denied multiple pleas from Democrats to consider their amendment to a crypto market structure bill being marked up in the committee Thursday that would make banking industry-favored changes to the yield provision. The committee passed the measure in a 15 to 9 vote.

Amendments to a long-awaited crypto market structure bill slated to be marked up in the Senate Banking Committee Thursday would force lawmakers to vote for or against the banking industry's desired changes to the legislation.

The community bank trade group says crypto firms are combining stablecoin rules, Fed master account access and trust charters to replicate banking without bank rules.

Banks continue to push back on what they describe as insufficient protections against stablecoin yield as the Senate Banking Committee is poised to mark up its long-awaited crypto market structure bill this week.

The 21st century financial system that digital currency promised is being built, but by banks, not by the bitcoin crowd.

Interpretive guidance from regulators does not deliver the kind of certainty that companies want as they consider expanding into the world of digital assets. Congressional action on the CLARITY Act is the answer.

The pilot program offers rates better than Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab and will be rolled out to all of Morgan Stanley's 8.6 million E-Trade users later this year.

Public comments on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's GENIUS Act implementing regulations highlighted the rift between banks and crypto firms over the permissibility of yield on stablecoin holdings, an issue that has stalled crypto market structure legislation for months.

CEO Brian Armstrong said the company will flatten its org chart to five management layers and concentrate hiring around "AI-native" pods.