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By Fireblocks
With only a handful of working days left in 2025, it might be useful to look back on the year of crypto policy that passed, to inform us as we look forward. What were the main industry’s key policy expectations of this year?
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By Fireblocks
Banks make money from trading and brokerage. JP Morgan’s Markets division: $31 billion in 2024 and Goldman Sachs: $26 billion, according to private industry analysis. Morgan Stanley’s wealth division made $28 billion. Digital assets don’t change the role banks play to earn this revenue. In fact, they extend it. But activity is migrating. Coinbase generated $4 billion in transaction revenue in 2024, the same intermediation function banks provide.
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By Fireblocks
Brazil has formalized a comprehensive framework for virtual asset service providers (VASP). This is the moment when the rules become operational, enforceable, and aligned with the scale of activity taking place in the country. For institutions already active in Brazil and those evaluating market entry, this is a shift that raises expectations and lowers uncertainty at the same time.
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By Fireblocks
Most banks approach digital assets with the same assumptions they use for traditional custody. It is a natural starting point, but it does not hold. Digital assets behave differently, and control that once sat inside core systems now has to be applied in the wallet layer. Institutions that understand this now gain meaningful advantages in speed, flexibility, and market positioning.
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By Fireblocks
On October 10, 2025, crypto markets experienced their largest liquidation event in history. A whopping $19.5 billion was liquidated across all markets with approximately $1 trillion in total market cap wiped out. Binance halted trading. Ethereum Layer 2s lagged. Arbitrum fees spiked above $500, with median fees jumping to $116. The entire ecosystem was under unprecedented stress. This was the ultimate real-world test of mission-critical infrastructure.
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By Fireblocks
Over the next decade, wallet infrastructure will be a defining factor in onchain finance. Institutions that invest in robust wallet capabilities in the next 18–24 months will shape how value is moved, held, managed, and issued. This shift isn’t driven by hype. It’s grounded in a real transformation of how financial markets function. From banking to payments to capital markets, leading institutions are doing more than building products.
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By Fireblocks
For the first time in history, banks and financial institutions are adopting digital assets as an integral part of their internal operations and product offerings. As they do so, they face new threat vectors, unfamiliar custody models, and growing pressure to identify and align with emerging supervisory standards, which may or may not serve as complete safe havens from risk.
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By Fireblocks
By the time of Sibos 2025, banks and policymakers seemed to agree: digital money will be part of the operating models of traditional finance. The question now is how to make it happen. The urgency comes from a structural shift already under way. For the first time in regulated finance, value can meaningfully cross borders without banks. Virtual asset service providers are already moving stablecoins from Singapore to São Paulo without correspondent banks.
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By Fireblocks
On September 8, 2025, a sophisticated attacker compromised a prominent staking provider’s infrastructure and walked away with customer funds. The breach at Kiln was not prevented by audits, penetration tests, or SOC 2 compliance, all of which were in place. The attacker used state-actor-level techniques that evaded every security measure.
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By Fireblocks
The industry’s focus on stablecoin connectivity is showing up in the data, as institutions shift resources toward the infrastructure that makes these flows possible. The EY-Parthenon 2025 Stablecoin Survey shows that 56% of financial institutions view wallet infrastructure as a top strategic priority, matched by the same share prioritizing on- and off-ramp services. Together, these capabilities define how U.S.
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By Fireblocks
Blockchain adoption in banking is moving from experimentation to production. In this session, Fireblocks Financial Markets Economist Neil Chopra breaks down where banks, fintechs, and non-bank competitors are already live, what wallet infrastructure means for onchain ownership and control, and why stablecoins are proving the utility case that's pulling the rest of the market forward.
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By Fireblocks
Owning the UI used to mean owning the customer. On blockchain, whoever controls the wallet controls the relationship. In this clip from the Banking Bootcamp, Fireblocks Financial Markets Economist Neil Chopra breaks down why wallet infrastructure is becoming the central layer for digital asset services at banks, and walks through the three use cases scaling in production today: custody and brokerage, stablecoin payments, and tokenization.
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By Fireblocks
Stablecoins are the obvious choice for cross-border payments. But scaling them means solving for interoperability across chains, stablecoins, and ecosystems, and integrating with the core banking and treasury systems institutions already use. In this clip from Fintech Fireside Asia, Dan Sleep, Head of Business Solutions APAC at Fireblocks, breaks down why infrastructure is the connective layer and how Fireblocks Network for Payments is bridging issuers, movers, and custodians across the value chain.
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By Fireblocks
Why are institutions finally moving into crypto at scale? It's not just about the technology. At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, leaders from CME Group, Fireblocks, and Cumberland break down what's driving institutional adoption, where liquidity is flowing, and how the gap between TradFi and crypto-native markets is closing.
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By Fireblocks
Banks don't need to rip and replace their systems to capture the digital asset opportunity. Adam Levine, CEO of Fireblocks Trust Company and SVP of Corporate Development, sits down with FINTECH.TV's Remy Blaire at Ondo Summit 2026 to break down how traditional institutions can build foundational infrastructure while maintaining legacy rails. Timecodes Key Topics.
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By Fireblocks
This is what crypto options infrastructure looks like at scale. Deribit needed to onboard custodians and expand collateral support without months of technical integration for each new relationship. Luuk Strijers, CEO of Deribit, knew they needed a partner with the security, flexibility, and network to scale faster without compromise. That partner was Fireblocks. Full wallet infrastructure across hot, warm, and cold storage Seamless expansion of collateral and coin support Frictionless custodian onboarding through Off Exchange.
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By Fireblocks
Tokenization is moving from pilot to production. At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, industry leaders from Temasek, Fireblocks, Deutsche Bundesbank, and ADDX sat down to dissect the real-world momentum behind tokenized money, stablecoins, and programmable finance. From 24/7 liquidity and FX optimization to the rising role of TradFi in blockchain innovation, this panel explores what’s working now—and what’s holding tokenization back from truly scaling.
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By Fireblocks
SPARK 2025 | Customer Story In this discussion from SPARK 2025, Cactus Raazi, CEO of The Americas at B2C2, shares invaluable insights on the institutional adoption of digital assets, the strategic partnership between B2C2 and Fireblocks, and the future of stablecoins in the real economy.
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By Fireblocks
We asked industry leaders a simple but powerful question: What stage of the game are we in when it comes to stablecoin adoption? In this finale of Off the Blocks, our guests share sharp, honest perspectives on the evolution of stablecoins and the infrastructure surrounding them. From pilot projects to real-world utility Institutional use cases fueling global settlement Regulatory clarity driving momentum What’s still missing for mass adoption.
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By Fireblocks
SPARK 2025 | Customer Success Story Discover how Confirmo, a leading B2B stablecoin payment platform, leveraged Fireblocks' infrastructure to scale operations and automate critical processes. In this customer testimonial from SPARK 2025, Anna Strebl, CEO of Confirmo, shares how partnering with Fireblocks for over three years transformed their crypto payment processing operations. Learn how Fireblocks' wallet orchestration, security infrastructure, and automation capabilities helped Confirmo grow from a Bitcoin-focused processor to a stablecoin-first payments platform. Key Topics Covered.
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By Fireblocks
Migrating traditional assets to blockchain and wallet infrastructure has game-changing benefits, including reduced settlement costs and increased transaction security, speed, and transparency. At Fireblocks, we have already seen advancements in tokenization use cases in the commodities, debt securities, equity securities, and real estate markets. As the tokenized asset market expands, it will enable these assets to be used in new and innovative ways.
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By Fireblocks
As the global transformation to digital assets and crypto goes into full swing, a number of questions are standing out to decision makers at banks and other financial institutions. For one, you may be wondering: As we expand to the digital asset space, what's the best way to custody these new assets? At Fireblocks we have found that FIs often achieve better results by deploying a "direct custody" system for digital assets.
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