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“The important thing is the adoption of cryptocurrencies and not anarchism”: Sebastián Camiser

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There is progress towards “a middle point closer to regulation than deregulation,” says Camiser. The success of the industry should be measured by adoption and not financial speculation. The development of the bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency industry has generated constant tensions between the founding ideals of decentralization and cryptoanarchism, and the progressive corporate structure that … Read more

Chainlink closes a week of alliances with Kraken, Coinbase, DTCC and financial giants

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Chainlink, the main network of decentralized oracles in the market, closes this Sunday, May 17, 2026, a week of strong institutional expansion, with integrations with Kraken, Fidelity International and DTCC, (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation), the main post-trading infrastructure of the US stock market. The announcements reinforce the use of its technology in interoperability between … Read more

Kraken migrates its kBTC tokenized bitcoin infrastructure to Chainlink

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The current cross-chain provider, LayerZero, is deprecated. Chainlink is the world’s leading decentralized oracle network. Kraken exchange will migrate the cross-network infrastructure of kBTC, its tokenized bitcoin (BTC), to Chainlink CCIP. With this change, you will no longer use LayerZero as an interoperability provider for your assets. wrapped (wrapped). According to reported on May 14, … Read more

Kraken and Franklin Templeton promote tokenized financial products

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The agreement includes the use of BENJI, Franklin Templeton’s tokenized fund platform. Franklin Templeton currently manages $1.74 trillion in assets. Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, together with the investment company, Franklin Templeton, announced this May 12, 2026 a strategic alliance to expand the offering of tokenized financial products. The initiative aims to … Read more

Kraken seeks to create a federal trust company for cryptocurrencies

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Payward, the parent company of the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States (OCC) on May 8 to obtain a national trust company license, in a bid to expand its regulated digital asset custody business. According to the releaseIf the company receives approval, … Read more

Kraken to launch its own Ethereum layer 2

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The bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced this Thursday, October 24, the launch of Ink, a new layer 2 built on the Optimism Superchain, with the aim of reducing the barriers between centralized and decentralized ecosystems. As reported, Ink seeks to transform itself into an attractive DeFi ecosystem by promising to “eliminate friction points” … Read more