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.

These Are the Most Actively Developed Crypto Projects Right NowSantiment's latest 30-day GitHub activity rankings dropped this week, and the results offer a clearer picture of where serious engineering work is actually happening - as opposed to where the Twitter hype is.