Key Takeaways Standard Chartered is planning to launch a crypto prime brokerage under its venture capital arm, SC Ventures. The brokerage aims to serve institutional clients with services like custody, financing, trading, and clearing for digital assets. Standard Chartered, the leading British multinational bank, is considering launching a crypto prime brokerage that would sit under
Tempo, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins and real-world payments, has announced its strategic partnership with DeepNode AI, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project based on blockchain technology. The hidden objective behind this integration is to convert centralized AI into a decentralized network for easily accessible and validated data. Centralized AI concentrates power, limits
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Since its introduction in 2009, bitcoin BTC$90,709.15 fans have seen it as an anti-establishment asset and a shield against financial mismanagement and political turmoil. Yet on Monday, the largest cryptocurrency is trailing traditional safety assets such as gold even as tensions between President Donald Trump and
For the first time since May 2023, Bitcoin Core maintainers have increased the number of Trusted Keys possessing Commit power to the master branch of Bitcoin Core software. On January 8, 2026, pseudonymous developer TheCharlatan, also known as “sedited,” joined the five other keyholders. TheCharlatan joins Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, and
The Fed made successive interest rate cuts in the final months of 2025. However, the outlook for 2026 does not look very positive. At this point, Goldman Sachs revised its forecast regarding the Fed’s interest rate cuts. According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs revised its Fed expectations, pointing to rate cuts in June and September instead
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds shed around $681 million over the past week as institutional demand appears to be losing momentum. Despite this, charts show a highly bullish pattern remains at play. Summary Bitcoin price has rebounded back after a bearish week. Bitcoin ETFs logged $681 million in net outflows over the past week. An
In a landmark move for traditional finance, Standard Chartered announced plans on March 15, 2025, to launch a cryptocurrency prime brokerage service through its innovation subsidiary SC Ventures, fundamentally reshaping institutional access to digital assets and marking one of the most significant banking entries into crypto infrastructure to date. Standard Chartered Crypto Prime Brokerage: Institutional
Crypto investment products posted significant outflows last week, with a four-day run of withdrawals erasing part of the $1.5 billion in inflows seen during the first two trading days of 2026. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $454 million in outflows last week, European crypto asset manager CoinShares reported on Monday. “This turnaround in sentiment appears
Samson Mow, the JAN3 CEO and a vocal Bitcoin proponent, has taken to his account on the X social media giant to share an ultra-bullish Bitcoin price prediction with his vast army of followers. While this is not the first time Mow has predicted Bitcoin would hit $1 million, this time, his statement has a