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Ripple Is Buying Its Way Into Australia With a Financial Services License as APAC Volume Doubles
Ripple plans to acquire BC Payments Australia and its AFSL license, expanding its regulated footprint to 75+ markets as Asia-Pacific payments volume doubles.

Ghana Admits 11 Crypto Firms Into Its First Regulatory Sandbox Under a Law Passed Three Months Ago
Ghana's SEC launches a 12-month crypto sandbox with 11 companies covering exchanges, gold tokenization, and payment systems under the VASP Act 2025.

Arthur Hayes Would Not Bet a Dollar on Bitcoin Right Now, and He Built BitMEX
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says he will not buy BTC until central banks start printing money, despite Bitcoin trading near $70,000 with the Fear index at 26.

Record 6 Percent of Americans Raided Their 401(k)s Last Year, and Crypto Sat in Fear the Whole Time
Vanguard reports hardship withdrawals hit a record 6% in 2025, tripling the pre-pandemic rate. What this says about financial stress, crypto sentiment, and stablecoins.

21Shares Lists the First US Polkadot ETF on Nasdaq With Built-In Staking, and a Supply Cap Lands Two Days Later
21Shares TDOT ETF gives US investors physically-backed DOT exposure with staking yield on Nasdaq, days before Polkadot caps supply at 2.1 billion tokens.

Hyperliquid Permissionless Market Hits 1.2 Billion Dollars in Open Interest as Oil and Equity Futures Dwarf Crypto Pairs
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 permissionless market set a record $1.2B in open interest, with oil and equity futures accounting for most of the top 30 contracts.

Wall Street Funneled 540 Million Dollars Into Solana ETFs in Q4, and Investment Advisors Were the Biggest Buyers
13F filings reveal $540M in institutional Solana ETF purchases in Q4, led by Goldman Sachs, Electric Capital, and investment advisors holding over $270M.

Broadridge Plugs Crypto Dot Com Into the Same Order Routing Network That Moves 15 Trillion Dollars a Day in Equities
Broadridge integrates Crypto.com into its NYFIX network, giving 2,200 institutional participants FIX-based crypto order routing for the first time in Asia.

Wall Street Banks Are Preparing to Sue the OCC for Giving Crypto Firms Federal Banking Charters
The Bank Policy Institute, backed by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, is weighing a lawsuit against the OCC over national trust bank charters granted to crypto firms.

The DOJ Seeks to Retry Tornado Cash Co-Founder Roman Storm on Money Laundering and Sanctions Charges, Proposing an October Date
The DOJ wants to retry Roman Storm on money laundering and sanctions charges after last year's hung jury, proposing an early October 2026 retrial date.
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