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The consensus that Bitcoin has matured into “digital gold” faces a new fracture line on Wall Street, one that has little to do with daily price volatility and everything to do with the distant future of computing. Two prominent strategists named Wood are currently offering diametrically opposed roadmaps to global allocators for the world’s largest […] The post Bitcoin’s “quantum” death sentence is causing a Wall Street rift, but the fix is already hidden in the code appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Two years ago, Bitcoin gained something it had chased for a long time: a place in the tradfi default menu. Plenty of people could get exposure to Bitcoin in 2023, as anyone with an exchange account and a tolerance for operational risk could click “buy.” Yet most capital in the US moves through brokerages, retirement […] The post Bitcoin’s $25 billion legacy exodus secretly cemented Wall Street’s grip on liquidity within 2 years appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Big banks aren’t debating crypto anymore — they’re building it. From tokenized cash to ETFs, Wall Street is quietly going onchain. For years, major banks treated cryptocurrency primarily as a risk to be contained. That posture is now giving way to a more deliberate form of engagement. Rather than debating crypto’s legitimacy, banks are increasingly deciding how and where to integrate it, from regulated investment products to blockchain-based payment rails. This shift is on full display in this week’s Crypto Biz. JPMorgan is extending its US dollar deposit token onto new blockchain infrastructure, signaling that tokenized cash is moving closer to production use within global banking.  Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, is positioning itself to offer exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) through exchange-traded funds (ETFs), potentially bringing crypto investments to millions of wealth management clients.  Read more

The XRP market has opened 2026 by splitting into two distinct realities. On one side, the institutional “wrapper” trade is thriving, supported by shrinking exchange supply and deepening corporate infrastructure. On the other hand, the underlying on-chain economy is flashing warning signs, with activity metrics fading even as Wall Street deepens its footprint. This divergence […] The post Ripple is winning on Wall Street and in the UK, but the XRP Ledger is losing users fast and the split will define 2026 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Leaders of a major Wall Street trade group and DeFi-focused crypto leaders are trying to hash out key disagreements before the market structure bill faces a do-or-die Senate vote next week.

One of America’s largest banks, Morgan Stanley, announced that they will be launching a SOL-linked exchange-traded fund (ETF), favoring a bullish Solana price prediction as Wall Street’s appetite for cryptos keeps growing.The financial institution filed the required paperwork to list both Solana and Bitcoin ETFs on Tuesday. These are the first crypto-related products of this […] The post Solana Price Prediction: Morgan Stanley Just Filed for a SOL ETF – Is This the Beginning of Wall Street’s Next Crypto Obsession? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Federal Reserve policy and crypto-friendly regulation could be setting the market up for a bullish 2026, but there are still a handful of hurdles investors should be aware of. 2025 was a blockbuster year for Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider crypto market as crypto-friendly legislators platformed growth-focused regulation and Wall Street finally accepted Bitcoin, Ether (ETH), and numerous altcoins as a valid asset class worthy of inclusion in an investment portfolio.  The global bid on Bitcoin, Ether and Solana’s SOL (SOL) token was near immeasurable, with total net flows into the spot Bitcoin ETFs reaching $57 billion and the total net assets across the ETFs reaching $114.8 billion.  Going into 2026, the real question is, will the pace of institutional, corporate and government-level adoption, which were critical price drivers in 2025, continue? Since October, the robust inflows to the spot Bitcoin ETF tapered off and, in some cases, turned into a sellers' market for weeks on end, and this was followed by a 30% co...

If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement. Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and the seller’s security actually swap places for good, with no take-backs and no missing pieces. […] The post These two financial giants just set Ethereum’s on-chain schedule, but Wall Street relies on a controversial “undo” button appeared first on CryptoSlate.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. has formally entered the contest for on-chain cash, and the prize is not just a new product line. It is the billions of dollars in institutional capital that now sit in zero-yield stablecoins and early tokenized funds. On Dec. 15, the $4 trillion banking giant launched the My OnChain Net […] The post JP Morgan’s move to Ethereum proves Wall Street is quietly hijacking the digital dollar from crypto natives appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A new exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to XRP has just launched in the U.S., adding fresh momentum to the XRP price prediction as Wall Street’s interest in the altcoin continues to grow.The latest listing comes from 21Shares, which has introduced its TOXR fund, giving U.S. investors direct spot exposure to XRP through regulated markets.With XRP […] The post XRP Price Prediction: New XRP ETF Just Launched on Wall Street – Is This the Moment XRP Goes Mainstream? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ripple’s post-SEC rebound is drawing Wall Street backing, including a $40 billion valuation deal with downside protection— and some investors betting on XRP. It has been a long and arduous journey for Ripple. After emerging from a multiyear battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the blockchain-based payments and infrastructure company is pressing ahead with broad ambitions to unify custody, treasury and prime-brokerage services, each underpinned by blockchain technology and stablecoins. Despite the bruising legal fight and the reputational damage that came with it, Ripple has still managed to win over some of Wall Street’s biggest players. This week’s Crypto Biz looks at how Ripple secured a striking $40 billion valuation, and why some of its backers are quietly placing bets on an XRP (XRP) surge. Read more

Ripple’s $500 million raise shows its post-SEC shift is working, as Wall Street piles in under a deal reportedly offering rare protections and guaranteed returns. Ripple’s $500 million raise in November marked a striking turn for a company once defined by its bruising, multiyear battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. As its legal challenges ease and Ripple pushes beyond cross-border payments toward a more ambitious crypto-native settlement stack, the company is repositioning itself in ways that are increasingly attracting major Wall Street investors. The round, which Cointelegraph reported valued Ripple at $40 billion, one of the highest valuations for a private company, drew an unusually heavy institutional roster. Investors included Citadel Securities, Fortress Investment Group and funds linked to Galaxy Digital, Pantera Capital and Brevan Howard. New details reported by Bloomberg also shed light on how Ripple secured that interest — namely, by offering investors a deal structured with signi...

Twenty One Capital secures shareholder approval for NYSE listing with approximately 43,500 BTC worth $4 billion, positioning it as the third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder as markets watch key resistance levels. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Wall Street to List $4 Billion Bitcoin Firm – How High Can BTC Go? appeared first on Cryptonews.

On Nov. 26, Nasdaq’s International Securities Exchange quietly triggered one of the most important developments in Bitcoin’s financial integration. The trading platform asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise the position limit on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) options from 250,000 contracts to one million. On the surface, the proposal looks procedural. […] The post Bitcoin on Wall Street will never be the same after a quiet Nasdaq move appeared first on CryptoSlate.

For a while, owning Bitcoin was professionally awkward. Big asset managers couldn’t touch it, compliance teams didn’t know what to do with it, and internal mandates typically banned the direct custody of anything that looked like a bearer instrument. But equities? Equities were fine. That’s how MicroStrategy, a Virginia-based enterprise software firm, became the most […] The post Why did Wall Street just dump $5.4 billion in Strategy MSTR stock? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A bullish BNB price prediction is gaining traction after Binance revealed a major partnership with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.Through this deal, institutional investors can now use their BUIDL fund holdings as collateral to trade directly on Binance, increasing both demand and utility for BNB.As more traditional finance players explore tokenized assets, BNB could […] The post BNB Price Prediction: Wall Street’s Biggest Player Just Backed BNB – Institutions Coming? appeared first on Cryptonews.

After defeating the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the status of XRP, Ripple has made a puzzling move: it’s not rushing to go public. Instead, the company is staying private. This choice says more about the uneasy fit between crypto firms and public markets than about Ripple’s finances. In July 2023, the court ruled […] The post Ripple won the fight—now it’s ghosting Wall Street despite a $40B IPO valuation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Banks don’t publish their risk positions, and asset managers don’t broadcast client portfolios. Yet, both want programmable settlement and verifiable execution without exposing what they’re settling or for whom. That tension has kept institutional capital at the edge of public chains, waiting for privacy technology to catch up to compliance requirements. If banks can’t enter […] The post Chainlink says it finally solved crypto’s $3.4 trillion problem: The privacy fix Wall Street has been waiting for appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Despite record levels of institutional investment, most Wall Street firms are still trading off-chain, says Annabelle Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Altius Labs.

In August 2025, Ripple Labs formally closed its years-long battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company paid a $125 million civil penalty, accepted an injunction on certain institutional XRP sales, and walked away with something more valuable than victory: clarity. Judge Analisa Torres had already ruled in July 2023 that XRP itself […] The post Exploring Ripple’s strategic sidestep from Wall Street spotlight appeared first on CryptoSlate.