Key Highlights: Google Cloud is launching its first dedicated multi-party computation (MPC) digital asset custody offering, moving beyond generic key management systems. The new purpose-built service integrates MPC signing, automated transaction policies, and key recovery to help banks and institutions secure tokenized assets. The product addresses the single largest vector in crypto crime, with compromised ...
Key Highlights: World Network has introduced an enterprise identity rollout featuring an identity wallet app, real-time Zoom verification, and cryptographic proofs for automated AI agents. Major financial players—including Bain Capital, Pantera Capital, VanEck Funds, OpenExchange, and Outtake—partnered with World to design the verification infrastructure. Despite the institutional milestone, native token $WLD remains locked under $0.50, ...
Key Highlights: Deutsche Bank plans to expand its cryptocurrency custody services into Asia in 2027 following an imminent rollout in Germany. The institutional offering will support major digital assets, stablecoin conversion, tokenized deposits, and the issuance of blockchain-based securities. Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin, granted the lender authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) ...
Key Highlights Standard Chartered plans to launch digital asset custody services in Singapore covering selected cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized real-world assets. The service will cater strictly to institutional and accredited corporate clients under the bank’s financing and securities-services division, subject to regulatory approvals. This initiative marks an expansion of Standard Chartered’s digital asset footprint beyond ...
Key Highlights Swell 2026 merges Ripple’s Swell and Apex conferences into a three-day event in New York (October 27–29) with over 100 speakers and 80 sessions. High-profile speakers include Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, CME Group’s Terrence Duffy, Bullish CEO Tom Farley, actor Matt Damon, and executives from BNY, Coinbase, Robinhood, Barclays, State Street, and Jump ...