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JPMorgan recently issued $50 million in US commercial paper for Galaxy Digital on Solana, with Coinbase and Franklin Templeton as buyers.The bank created an on-chain USCP token, settling both issuance and redemption cash flows in USDC rather than bank wires. Both issuance and servicing of the deal ran entirely on blockchain rails.As a template, JPMorgan intends to extend to more issuers, investors, and security types in 2026.The announcement follows a pattern. Institutional on-chain issuance headlines recur every few months, such as Siemens’ €300 million digital bond, Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon’s tokenized money market funds, and BlackRock’s BUIDL crossing $2.85…

In brief The UK Treasury plans to regulate crypto firms just like other financial products already under FCA oversight. The shift would expand rules beyond AML to disclosures, governance, and consumer protection. Crypto firms in the UK would need to balance innovation with compliance, but efforts for those would soon get materially more complex, Decrypt was told. UK officials are drafting legislation that would bring crypto companies fully under the country’s financial regulatory framework, extending oversight beyond existing anti-money laundering rules and placing crypto services within the Financial Conduct Authority’s remit.The Treasury proposals would regulate firms that provide crypto services…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Fanatics, a leading global sports platform, has launched Fanatics Markets, a fan-led prediction market platform developed through a strategic partnership with Crypto.com, bringing together sports, finance, and culture. Fanatics Markets is a simple, user-friendly platform built to let people trade on the moments shaping sports, finance, and culture. Through the partnership, the platform introduces customers to markets and pricing offered by Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA), a CFTC-registered exchange and clearinghouse and affiliate of Crypto.com. The platform provides users with a way to pick a side…

The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) 2025 annual report dropped digital assets from its list of financial-system vulnerabilities, ending three years of high-alert posture that framed crypto as a budding contagion channel requiring new legislation and cautious bank supervision.The word “vulnerability” disappeared from the table of contents entirely. Digital assets moved into a neutral “significant market developments to monitor” category, described not as systemic threats but as a growing sector with increasing institutional participation through spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and tokenization of traditional assets.The shift is structural, not cosmetic. FSOC’s 2022 report under former President Joe Biden’s Executive Order…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Referral Feature to Enable Users to Earn and Track CRO Rewards Through App-Based Referrals Crypto.com App Referral Feature December 2025 – Crypto.com, a global leader in cryptocurrency services, today announced an updated App Referral feature to expand user participation across the Crypto.com platform and enable users to earn CRO rewards through app-based referrals. The updated App Referral feature, which aims to allow users to earn CRO by inviting friends to join the Crypto.com App, marks a significant step in broadening participation in Crypto.com’s ecosystem. The referral feature…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Former Terraform Labs developer Will Chen argued in a Dec. 13 X thread that the fraud case against Do Kwon was built on a “backwards” theory, days after a court sentenced Kwon to 15 years in prison on Friday, Dec. 15. Chen framed his post as a critique of the legal mechanics, not a character defense. “I wanted Do to fail. I wanted him punished. I thought he was arrogant and reckless and I told him so to his face multiple times,” he wrote. “I’m not here…

Hex Trust launched wrapped XRP across Ethereum, Solana, Optimism, and HyperEVM on Dec. 12 with $100 million in initial liquidity, positioning the token as a trading pair for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin.This latest move to make XRP available across multiple ecosystems adds to Coinbase’s cbXRP on Base and Axelar’s eXRP on the XRPL EVM sidechain.Within months, XRP will exist in at least four distinct wrapped formats across a dozen networks, each with different custody arrangements and bridge infrastructure.Additionally, RLUSD has over $1 billion in circulation, mostly on Ethereum, and deep XRP/RLUSD pairs on chains where capital already sits, expanding XRP’s addressable…