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OCC Confirms Banks May Conduct Riskless Principal Crypto-Asset Transactions The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued guidance last week that clarifies an important question for banks navigating the crypto landscape: Can national banks act as principals in crypto

OCC Clarifies Banks May Hold Crypto Assets to Pay Blockchain Network Fees The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued new guidance this week that resolves a lingering operational question for banks in the crypto space: Can national banks hold crypto-assets specific

FDIC Issues New Guidance: Banks May Now Engage in Crypto Without Prior Approval FDIC Issues New Guidance: Banks May Now Engage in Crypto Without Prior Approval The FDIC's quiet revolution began not with a press conference, but with a Financial Institution Letter that landed on ba

Moonbeam's 2026 Roadmap: Cross-Chain Volume or Cross-Chain Hype? Moonbeam's 2026 Roadmap: $350M in Cross-Chain Volume—But Who's Actually Using It? Quick Pulse: Moonbeam 2026 Analysis Cross-Chain Volume $350M (365 days) Gaming Transactions 6.1M (10x YoY growth) Block Time Target 2

Ethereum Foundation Reorganization: Necessary Reset or Institutional Retreat? Ethereum Foundation Cuts 54 Employees and 40% of Budget: A Reorganization or a Retreat? Quick Pulse: Ethereum Foundation Reorganization Analysis Employees Laid Off 54 (20% of workforce) Budget Reduction

Hyperbridge's DOT Bridging Relaunch: An Architectural Deep Dive Into Post-Migration Security Hyperbridge's DOT Bridging Relaunch: An Architectural Deep Dive Into Post-Migration Security The email arrived on a Friday evening in January with subject line "Hyperbridge Relaunch - Act

EnergyWebX Launches Three New Compute Pools: SmartFlow, Carbon-Aware, and GP4BTC When I first started covering blockchain infrastructure, compute resources were something you rented from AWS or Azure without thinking twice. The location didn't matter, the energy source was invisi

Federal Reserve and FDIC Withdraw Restrictive Crypto Guidance: What This Means for Bitcoin Banking In a significant shift for the American banking landscape, the Federal Reserve and FDIC jointly announced the withdrawal of prior restrictive guidance on crypto-asset activities. Th

Last year, I spent three weeks verifying a dataset for a machine learning project. The data came from "reputable" sources—industry reports, academic papers, government filings—but nearly 15% of the entries contained errors, duplications, or outdated information. The verification

Joint guidance from the Fed, OCC, and FDIC establishes how banks should treat Bitcoin-backed and crypto-asset securities on their balance sheets. In a move that brings regulatory clarity to one of the most contentious areas of digital asset banking, the Federal Reserve, Office of