Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG) and operator of the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, announced it will launch an institutional-grade Zcash (ZEC) mining pool in April 2026.

Wells Fargo has quietly moved to stake its claim in the digital dollar race. On March 9, the bank submitted a trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "WFUSD" - a name that, by most analyst readings, telegraphs the development of a proprietary stablecoin or deposit token backed by the U.S. dollar.

Goldman Sachs has emerged as the dominant institutional player in the nascent spot XRP ETF market, holding roughly $153.8 million in exposure as of its Q4 2025 13F filing - a position that dwarfs every other disclosed institution in the space.

Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital asset arm of French banking giant Societe Generale, has deployed its EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) stablecoin on the Stellar network - the latest move in a multichain push that now spans four major blockchains.

The XRP Ledger is no longer being pitched as a faster wire transfer. Ripple and its infrastructure arm RippleX are pushing something more ambitious - a full-stack rebuild of the network into a platform designed to handle institutional-grade decentralized finance at scale.

For most of Web3’s history, launching a token meant relying on someone else’s platform.

World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by Donald Trump and his family, is in the middle of a governance vote that critics say is engineered to consolidate power among large holders while sidelining the retail investors who funded the project in the first place.