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JPMorgan to let institutional clients pledge BTC and ETH as loan collateral by year-end: Bloomberg
JPMorgan will allow institutional clients to post BTC and ETH as collateral for loans by year-end, building on prior ETF collateral programs....

‘Appalling but unsurprising’: Rep. Maxine Waters condemns Trump’s pardon of Changpeng Zhao
Waters said the pardon is a result of the Binance founder's lobbying to Trump, his family, and World Liberty Financial....

Stable hits $825 million pre-deposit cap amid ‘front-running’ allegations
Crypto community members alleged that the majority of the deposit campaign was already occupied by large wallets before the announcement....

Miner wallet containing 4,000 BTC breaks 14-year dormancy: Lookonchain
Wallet '18eY9…6EfyM' transferred 150 BTC, worth around $16.6 million, in its first move in approximately 14 years....

Trump defends pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao: ‘Don’t believe I’ve ever met him, but he had a lot of support’
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued a pardon for the former Binance CEO, who previously served four months in prison....

JPMorgan says Stripe’s ‘twin revolutions’ in AI and money movement could unlock a $350 billion market
Recent acquisitions and the launch of the Tempo L1 mark Stripe’s return to crypto infrastructure as AI-driven commerce gains traction....

Solana treasury firm Solmate’s stock surges 50% amid plans for validator center and ‘aggressive M&A strategy’
The company formerly known as Brera Holdings rebranded last month into a Solana-based digital asset treasury....

DeFi lender Spark deploys $100 million into Superstate fund to diversify revenue as US Treasury yields dip
Spark allocated $100 million of its stablecoin reserves into a Superstate fund generating yield from a crypto cash and carry trade....

Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff pitches onchain gold tokenization app, CZ calls it a ‘trust-me-bro’ token
Schiff argues gold is “the one thing that makes sense to put on a blockchain,” while critics say trust, not code, still rules....