Samsung Electronics America said on Wednesday that USDC transfers will arrive in Samsung Wallet in the last week of October for eligible US Galaxy users. The 82 million figure counts compatible devices, and Samsung has not said how many users will qualify.
Robinhood has put $25m of bitcoin on its own balance sheet. Its executive called the sum small for a $100bn company, and it is a sliver of the bitcoin that on-chain analysts attribute to its customers.
The SEC has proposed letting investment advisers hold their clients' crypto themselves, but only after deciding in writing, every quarter, that no qualified custodian will take it. Its staff found 136 advisers using specialist crypto custodians, and 1,498 that appear to advise on crypto. To find the second number, they had an AI model read 15,964 brochures.
Bitget says the $387.5m taken from its hot wallets falls within its user protection fund, and withdrawals began reopening on Monday. The fund is 5,500 bitcoin, not dollars. Below $70,455 it no longer covers the loss, and bitcoin closed below that on 126 of this year's 270 days, most recently on 19 August.
Bank entrants and scale players are compressing fees for institutional safekeeping, pushing specialists toward higher-value services.