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Brokerage services giant Charles Schwab plans to roll out spot cryptocurrency trading in the first half of 2026, pushing it deeper into digital assets. “We remain on track to launch our spot crypto offer in the first half of 2026, starting with bitcoin BTC$66,849.18 and ether (ETH),” a company spokesperson told CoinDesk on Friday.The firm has opened a waitlist for clients seeking early access to what it calls a “Schwab Crypto” account, which will allow users to buy and sell the two largest cryptocurrencies. The firm will offer the service via Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB.The move builds on comments…

The New York Stock Exchange, DTCC, and Tradeweb aren’t experimenting with blockchain anymore. They’re building production systems on it.According to a16z’s Jason Rosenthal, what’s unfolding represents the most significant infrastructure upgrade in capital markets since electronic trading replaced floor traders in the 1990s. DTCC, which processed $3.7 quadrillion in transactions in 2024, received SEC authorization in December 2025 to tokenize real-world assets and is targeting production deployment for U.S. Treasury securities in the first half of 2026.The Migration TimelineNYSE announced in January 2026 a platform for 24/7 onchain trading and settlement of U.S. equities and ETFs. The system will support…

President Donald Trump’s renewed aggressive posturing toward Iran has pushed bitcoin lower by roughly 2% over the past 24 hours to $67,000. While this price action is consistent with routine volatility, beneath the surface, market structure looks fragile. This is mainly due to flows in the Deribit-listed options market, specifically, a build-up of defensive positioning just below current prices that could result in a slide all the way down to $50,000. A fragile setup below $68,000In recent weeks, traders have been loading up on put options offering downside protection. These defensive flows have been concentrated in put options at strike…

Ether (ETH) price may be at risk of a correction to new year-to-date lows, especially if the bulls fail to secure daily candle closes above the $2,150 to $2,400 range.Ether’s price action continues to be driven by US and global macroeconomic events, along with investors’ appetite for risk assets during the US and Israel-Iran war. As data shows more than $1 billion in futures-driven sell pressure, the chance of Ether falling below $1,800 rises.Ether’s main challenge sits at $2,400Repeat rejections near $2,150 continue to cap Ether rallies, and the level has acted as a strong resistance seven times over the…

LangChain dropped a significant product overhaul in March, rebranding its Agent Builder as LangSmith Fleet while simultaneously announcing an enterprise partnership with NVIDIA that positions the company squarely in the production AI agent space.The Fleet rebrand isn’t just cosmetic. The platform now includes agent identity management, sharing capabilities, and granular permissions—features enterprise customers have been demanding as they move from AI experiments to company-wide deployments. Think of it as fleet management for your AI workforce.What’s Actually NewThe standout addition is LangSmith Sandboxes, currently in private preview. These provide isolated environments where agents can execute code without access to production systems—a…

Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Nilmini Rubin on the challenge facing crypto and traditional markets to create a hybrid, shared governance structure.Meredith Fitzpatrick covers how financial institutions must fundamentally rethink AML risk as crypto and TradFi converge.Top headlines institutions should pay attention to by Francisco Rodrigues.Maple loans surge past $1 billion in Chart of the Week.-Alexandra LevisExpert InsightsGovernance is the real Layer 1By Nilmini Rubin, chief policy officer, HederaWhen Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023, USDC briefly lost its dollar peg after billions in reserves were trapped in the bank. The impact spread quickly, stalling…

Opinion by: Francesco Mosterts, co-founder of Umia.Crypto prides itself on being a market-driven system. Prices, incentives, and capital flows determine everything from token valuations to lending rates and blockspace demand. Markets are the industry’s primary coordination mechanism. Yet, when it comes to governance, crypto suddenly abandons markets altogether.Recent governance disputes at major protocols have once again exposed the tensions inside DAO decision-making. Participation remains extremely low and influence is highly concentrated. A study of 50 DAOs found “a discernible pattern of low token holder engagement,” showing that a single large voter could sway 35% of outcomes and that four voters…

Australians are using Anthropic’s Claude AI at more than four times the rate their population size would suggest, according to new data from the Anthropic Economic Index released March 31, 2026. The findings arrive as the AI safety company opens its Sydney office and formalizes cooperation with the Australian government on AI research.Australia accounts for 1.6% of global Claude.ai traffic, ranking eleventh worldwide. But the real story is per capita intensity—the country’s Anthropic AI Usage Index score of 4.1 places it seventh globally, trailing only Singapore, Israel, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada.Sydney and Melbourne DominateTwo states drive nearly…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1911.41, up 0.1% (+2.45) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday.Thirteen of 20 assets is trading higher.Leaders: NEAR (+1.9%) and BCH (+1.5%).Laggards: HBAR (-2.4%) and XLM (-2.0%). The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

Two malicious Axios npm releases have prompted warnings for developers to rotate credentials and treat affected systems as compromised after a supply chain attack poisoned the popular JavaScript HTTP client library.The compromise was first reported by cybersecurity company Socket, which said axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 were modified to pull in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a malicious dependency that ran automatically during installation before the releases were removed from npm.According to security company OX Security, the altered code can give attackers remote access to infected devices, allowing them to steal sensitive data such as login credentials, API keys and crypto wallet information.The incident shows how…