Swipe users will be able to directly deposit their paychecks into the newly available accounts from Evolve Bank & Trust.

Specifically, Aave announced yesterday that it’s working with RealT, a company devoted to the tokenization of real estate, to let people stake their tokenized real estate as collateral to take out loans.

Three Australian banks are forming a new company called Lygon to digitize bank guarantees using blockchain technology, which could purportedly reduce the timeline of bank guarantees processes by days.

At a high level, the private-market landscape is becoming more densely populated, giving tZERO the opportunity to scale its platform to help retail investors trade shares across a growing roster of companies.

In June, Fidelity published the results of a survey that found nearly 80% of institutional investors see the appeal of digital assets.

Quorum, which will remain open-source, is being used by the bank to run the Interbank Information Network, a payments network that involves more than 300 banks.

Binance.US says it is now "fully registered and regulated [as a] crypto and digital asset exchange," meaning Floridians can now buy, sell, and trade in the 40+ digital currencies Binance.US supports.

The United States is losing the "technological cold war" to China due to its tough regulatory approach to blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies, a senior executive at Ripple believes.

At the moment, BlockFi has $1.5 billion in crypto assets on its lending platform and is producing a little less than $10 million a month in revenue, CEO Zac Prince said in an interview.

The role’s listed responsibilities reveal several key points that are relevant to the crypto industry.

This partnership will allow investors who hold tokens to have a safe and accessible home to store their SPiCE assets.

A central bank digital currency, CBDC, would essentially be a centralized, regulated version of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. This is interesting because Bitcoin was originally created to bypass central banks and other traditional financial institutions.

ConsenSys started as a hybrid incubator. Then, after building up the Ethereum community, ConsenSys split into a dual infrastructure provider and separate investment arm.

The world's largest publicly-traded business intelligence company has swapped fiat for Bitcoin as its treasury reserve asset, but the reasons behind it suggest that more big businesses will have no choice but to do the same.

Facebook is seeking to improve its commerce and payments within the company, and across all apps that it owns, which include Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.

Republic is an online investment platform that was launched with the goal of providing access to capital to underserved markets as well as investment opportunities to all investors typically not made available to the masses.

The round was also joined by new venture capital firms such as Coinbase Ventures and existing partners Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Cultural Leadership Fund – the offshoot’s first investment – among others.

Garlinghouse added that traditional monetary systems are usually as strong as people's trust in them—and fiat currencies are increasingly losing it today.