Google Cloud's MPC Symposium on October 28, 2026, in New York featured speakers from financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Citi, Wells Fargo, and OKX.

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PhotonPay closed a $40 million Series C funding round led by Blockchain Capital to scale its stablecoin-centric platform.

In September, Janus Henderson and Centrifuge previously partnered to launch the Janus Henderson Anemoy S&P 500 Fund (SPXA) on Coinbase's Base network.

The launch of JQQQ expands Janus Henderson's institutional onchain tokenization platform past $1 billion in strategies across U.S. Treasuries, structured credit, and public equities.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced plans in May 2026 to connect its tokenization service to Stellar, with rollout expected in the first half of 2027.

In August 2026, Zcash Community Grants approved $461,500 across nine monthly milestones for the ZECsy project's $550,000 outreach proposal targeting adult industry conventions, crypto conferences, and banking-restricted groups.

Traditional financial institutions JPMorgan, BlackRock, CME Group, Visa, and Robinhood generated $1.1 billion in combined blockchain revenue in the first half of 2026.

Uber Technologies Inc. participated in a pilot program with HSBC, Franklin Templeton, Fireblocks, and Tradeweb Markets using tokenized bank deposits on the Canton Network to trade corporate funds over the weekend.

Canton Strategic Holdings partnered with SEC-registered transfer agent Fairmint TA LLC to issue tokens and maintain official onchain ownership records.

Canton Strategic Holdings partnered with TSV LLC to operate a permissioned trading venue for tokenized securities on the Canton Network.

Visa partnered with Mesh to support crypto and stablecoin spending at over 175 million merchant locations, expanding payment capabilities.

In June 2026, Fireblocks participated as an infrastructure partner in the Open Standard initiative and identified Visa among the involved financial institutions.

Visa is in late-stage acquisition talks to purchase crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks for approximately $2.5 billion, according to an October 22, 2026 Axios report citing multiple sources.

In September 2026, SoFi Technologies began settling its $25 billion annualized card program using SoFiUSD on Mastercard's global payments network.

Mastercard selected Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners for the North American launch of its Stablecoin Security program ahead of global availability in 2027.

Malaysian banking group Maybank, Sea's digital financial services business Monee, and digital wallet ShopeePay joined the roster of industry participants in Singapore's BLOOM initiative.

Visa and Nium announced a BLOOM pilot in August to test cross-border settlement seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays, using U.S. dollar- and euro-backed stablecoins.

Mastercard, Visa, Airwallex, Circle, Coinbase, and Stripe are participants in the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM cross-border digital money initiative.

J.P. Morgan, Standard Chartered, DBS, Anchorage Digital, and Kasikornbank are among the founding or existing banking and crypto institutional participants in Singapore's BLOOM initiative.

Predicate named Paxos as a new strategic investor in its Series A round, bringing its cumulative funding to $15 million.

HSBC's Tokenised Deposit Service is live across Hong Kong, Singapore, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.