MetaMask pulls Ethereum staking systems after a security incident
Lido said MetaMask-operated validators began leaving its pool Wednesday, with the last expected to stop staking by Oct. 7.
October 1
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IBM's Swift beta sells reach, not settlement
Banks can instruct a tokenized deposit over the payment messages they already send: cheap distribution for a custody platform, and no answer on who holds the asset.
Bitget's move makes off-exchange collateral a baseline
Four venues on one bank's platform turn segregated off-exchange collateral from a marketing line into a cost of doing institutional business.
Catena's trust charter is a perimeter in waiting
A conditional federal trust charter covering fiat, securities and digital assets gives acquirers one more licensed destination — if Catena can fund it.
Gemini's $753 million price tag values licenses, not a shrinking exchange
Takeover speculation is unconfirmed, but crypto buyers have been paying for the replacement cost of a U.S. regulatory perimeter.
Circle's Arc logged 7.83 million transactions, almost none of them payments
Eleven founding validators bought Circle a governance story on day one; the transfer data says the settlement demand has not arrived.
Deutsche Bank's crypto custody bet is the relationship, not the rails
A short debut asset list and a client-demand caveat mark a follower's strategy in European institutional custody — and a defensible one.
S&P Global buys the calculation layer under its own index brand
Ten institutions bought into the vendor whose convention will price the tokenized assets their own custodians will have to value.
Liquid's exit stays shut as Blockstream refuses the ransom
Blockstream's refusal costs it little; 598.5 bitcoin remains outstanding and the only exit from Liquid is still shut.
Liquid gets most bitcoin back, without a control point
The federation negotiated onchain with the address that drained it; the 15% left behind is the price of the model.
Why Liquid's 3,998 BTC pause is a custody event
Blockstream froze the sidechain after nearly the whole federation wallet moved through SideSwap's peg-out key; the network says no key was stolen, leaving the real control failure unnamed.
A blob-space scramble left Robinhood Chain's batches queued for 14 minutes
Robinhood Chain kept producing blocks while its Ethereum batches waited behind Base, leaving app users unaware of the settlement queue.
OCC returns Zerohash's trust bank charter application
Zerohash's first application was returned as 'materially deficient.' The firm calls the move administrative and plans to refile this month with a narrower request.
Coldcard's $100M hack: the air-gap's blind spot
The wallet never touched the internet, yet it was drained. The vulnerability was in how its seed phrase was created.
GnosisDAO votes to settle Gnosis Chain on Ethereum
The move would release roughly 350,000 GNO and end the treasury's staking subsidy.
SocGen Forge secures French license for digital-asset custody and trading
France's AMF has licensed Societe Generale's digital-assets arm to hold client crypto, a milestone for bank-run custody.
Citi's Custody+ puts bitcoin on the bank's main institutional rail
Digital assets enter the same custody network as stocks and bonds, shrinking the case for separate crypto custodians.