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Lombard and Bitwise to Let Institutions Earn Yield on Custodied Bitcoin

The effort targets untapped institutional Bitcoin by cutting custody, bridge, and counterparty risk.

Bhutan Extends Bitcoin Drawdown With $11.85 Million Transfer as 2026 Outflows Reach $42.5 Million

XRP Ledger Activates Token Escrow for IOUs and MPTs

Ripple Adds Securosys HSMs and Figment Staking to Institutional Custody

XRPL Activates Permissioned Domains as Permissioned DEX Enters Two-Week Countdown

South Dakota Bill Would Let State Invest Up to 10% of Public Funds in Bitcoin

VanEck’s Spot Avalanche ETF Debuts on Nasdaq With Staking Feature and Introductory Fee Waiver

Flare, Upshift and Clearstar Launch First XRP-Denominated Onchain Yield Vault

Analyst Favors XRP Over Zcash as Fintech Bet, Citing Ripple’s New $1.2 Billion Stablecoin

Firelight Launches XRP Liquid Staking on Flare With Insurance Model Planned

Amundi Tokenizes Share Class of €5 Billion Money Market Fund on Ethereum

Abu Dhabi Tripled BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Stake, Citing Long-Term Store-of-Value Strategy

Obex Raises $37 Million for Sky-Backed Incubator Focused on Yield-Bearing Stablecoins

Luxembourg Confirms 1% Bitcoin Stake in Sovereign Fund, First in Europe

Pakistan Moves Toward Digital Rupee as Experts Press for Phased Crypto Rules

American Bitcoin Lifts Reserve to 4,004 BTC, Updates SPS to 432

Ex-TRON Executive Hunter Rogers Joins TeraHash as Co-Founder to Expand Bitcoin DeFi Yield

Virtune Lists Stablecoin Index ETP on Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Helsinki and Xetra

Stellar Joins Chainlink SCALE to Integrate CCIP, Data Feeds and Data Streams for Cross-Chain RWA and DeFi

Sygnum, Debifi Unveil MultiSYG, a Bank-Backed Bitcoin Loan Platform With Shared Control