The five crypto stories that matter to banks and funds, explained in plain English in three minutes.
The dailycrypto brief
Today's five stories
A $38m exchange hack and 50 firms snub tokenised stocks
- Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin loses $38m in a hack
- 50 companies block their shares from OKXICE
- Standard Chartered launches 24/7 tokenised deposits
- New Jersey drops Coinbase staking ban and $5m fine
- Crypto.com to close its Hong Kong retail app in 2027
- $38m
Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin pauses withdrawals after a $38m hack
Custody
CoinDesk, TokenPost - 50
50 companies keep their shares off OKX and ICE's tokenised venue
Markets
CoinDesk - 24/7
Standard Chartered launches 24/7 tokenised deposits in Hong Kong
Institutions
Standard Chartered, CoinDesk - $5m
New Jersey drops its Coinbase staking ban and $5m fine
Regulation
Cointelegraph, PANews - 1 Feb 2027
Crypto.com will close its Hong Kong consumer app on 1 February 2027
Regulation
Cointelegraph France, PANews
Who it's for
Most crypto news is written for traders. This is for the people who have to explain it at work: the compliance lead, the fund allocator, the banker who just got asked about stablecoins.
5
stories a day, picked for people who work with institutions, not for traders.
3 min
to read the lot. Each story opens with why it matters, then the facts.
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