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The crypto market has grown to over $3.2 trillion, driven by institutional adoption, stablecoin innovation, and a boost in DeFi activity. But every new dollar—and every new user—expands the attack surface potential. From credential stuffing and phishing, to malicious smart contracts and front-end exploits, today’s threat landscape is broader, faster, and more sophisticated than ever.

Fireblocks is now working with Calastone, the largest global funds network, to support Web3 connectivity within Calastone’s Tokenised Distribution solution, a first-of-its-kind solution enabling asset managers to tokenize any fund on Calastone’s network and distribute it across blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon. Fireblocks is providing secure infrastructure components that enable integration with Web3-native distributors.

For banks, the question is no longer if they should act, but how fast they must adapt. Over the last two decades we’ve seen a meteoric rise of fintechs, starting as small startups focused on user acquisition and hypergrowth. Today, these same firms are maturing into sustainable, profit-generating businesses proving they’re here to stay; they are fundamentally reshaping the financial services industry.

Fireblocks is now working with Calastone, the largest global funds network, to support Web3 connectivity within Calastone’s Tokenised Distribution solution, a first-of-its-kind solution enabling asset managers to tokenise any fund on Calastone’s network and distribute it across blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon. Fireblocks is providing secure infrastructure components that enable integration with Web3-native distributors.

One of Japan’s largest banks is leveraging Fireblocks, alongside other technology providers, to explore stablecoin initiatives, dialing up momentum in the Japanese digital asset space. Fireblocks, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Ava Labs, and TIS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to initiate joint discussions on the commercial use of stablecoins.

I’ve returned from my fourth Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) with Fireblocks, which gives us a great opportunity to see how far we’ve come in the digital asset space. No longer a space for curious exploration, PBW is where we talk about implementation for mainstream adoption that’s happening today. And much like the industry, I’ve seen my own growth over the past five years at Fireblocks!

If there’s one truth in payments, it’s this: the network always wins. Think of what Visa and Mastercard created: not just payment rails, but global ecosystems of merchants, issuers, acquirers, and processors. Their networks didn’t just move money—they connected entire economies. As digital assets move into the mainstream, the same principle applies. But the networks of tomorrow won’t be built on closed systems and settlement delays.

Brian Moynihan recently remarked, “It’s pretty clear there’s going to be a stablecoin… So if they make that legal, we’ll go into that business …it’s just then like another foreign currency.” While the comments from the CEO of Bank of America capture one bank use case for stablecoins, these digital assets have much more to offer banks than that.

They may be at different stages in their journey, but Argentina and Brazil are both headed to the same destination: integration of stablecoins into the fabric of their financial systems. We’ve seen the headlines that both countries are keen cryptocurrency adopters.

The rise of blockchain has fundamentally reshaped the financial ecosystem. Since Bitcoin’s genesis in 2009, permissionless blockchains have introduced an open, decentralized model for transacting value—fueling everything from DeFi to NFTs. Meanwhile, traditional financial institutions (FIs), drawn to the benefits of blockchain yet cautious of its risks, have leaned into permissioned systems that offer control, privacy, and compliance.