Scotiabank, one of Canada’s top-five banks by assets, has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund in partnership with digital asset manager 3iQ, highlighting growing institutional adoption in a market that approved spot Bitcoin ETFs years before the United States. Dynamic Funds, Scotiabank’s asset management arm, unveiled the Dynamic Active Multi-Crypto ETF on Wednesday. The liquid
IREN (IREN), a data center operator focused on AI cloud infrastructure, said it agreed to buy more than 50,000 specialized processing chips from Nvidia (NVDA), expanding its capacity by about 50%. The B300 GPUs, or graphic processing units, will take the Sydney-based company’s total AI compute fleet to about 150,000 GPUs. A GPU is a
Manadia has declared a strategic alliance with OptiView to improve the integrity and reliability of asset management based on AI in Web3 ecosystems. The partnership aims to bridge between artificial intelligence analytics and provable, low-trust settlement infrastructure, developing a safer, smoother system of multi-chain portfolio management. manadia × @optiview_x AI needs intelligence. Intelligence needs verifiable
China’s National People’s Congress opened on March 5 with signals that will reshape crypto capital flows for years to come. A stable yuan, record fiscal spending, and a structural push toward equity financing and RWA markets — these are the numbers that matter for digital asset investors. However, the headlines stopped at China’s growth target
As global commerce accelerates, more companies are adding crypto as a payment option to cut settlement delays, lower cross-border costs, and serve customers who already hold digital assets. In 2026, accepting crypto is becoming less of a bet and more of an operational upgrade. Commerce in 2026 is always on, cross-border, without limits. Buyers expect
Crypto Firm Zerohash is Seeking US National Trust Bank Charter Digital asset infrastructure firm Zero Hash has applied for a national trust bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, seeking approval to expand its role in digital asset custody and settlement services. The Chicago-based firm, which operates under the brand Zerohash,
Standard Chartered Named Custodian for TP ICAP’s Fusion Digital Assets Standard Chartered has been appointed as the digital asset custodian and settlement agent for TP ICAP’s Fusion Digital Assets platform, deepening the collaboration first announced in October 2024. The move supports TP ICAP as it expands matched-principal trading in spot crypto assets, marking a major