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According to Dealroom.co citing Bloomberg News, a consortium of 10 banks has provided Crux AI with a $22 billion loan secured by chips. Crux AI is the AI cloud service joint venture launched by Blackstone and Alphabet in May, which officially started last week.The loan will be used to purchase Google-customized TPUs. Crux AI has received a $5 billion equity investment from Blackstone, with Google providing TPUs, software, and services, planning to produce the first batch of 500 megawatts by 2027. Named lending institutions include Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

According to CoinDesk, while Wall Street giants like JPMorgan and Citi have processed huge amounts of money through blockchain, tokenized payment services are still primarily aimed at institutional clients and licensed networks. JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain platform has processed over $3 trillion, and Citi Token Services handles billions of dollars in cross-border payments daily, neither of which is open to regular savings users.The UK challenger bank Monument Bank is attempting to fill this gap. The bank has a balance sheet size of approximately $2.4 billion and plans to tokenize up to £250 million (about $335 million) of retail customer deposits on the privacy public chain Midnight. These deposits will still earn interest, be fully backed by the bank, can be exchanged 1:1 for pounds, and are protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. The project utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to protect customer data and meet regulatory requirements, allowing users to engage without needing to understand or directly use cryptocurrencies.Mintoo Bhandari, founder of Monument Bank, stated that most tokenization projects are currently internal bank projects and have not yet truly allowed retail users to participate directly in tokenization. In the long term, the bank plans to offer fractional private equity, tokenized structured products, and Lombard loans to customers through regular banking applications under compliance, and is considering licensing related infrastructure to other banks through its subsidiary Monument Technology.

A former bank executive was recently sentenced for forging documents to fraudulently obtain over 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in illegal loans, and using the funds to purchase Bitcoin and conduct cryptocurrency bribery.

Stablecoin infrastructure company Bastion announced that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted it preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank charter. This charter allows Bastion to incorporate stablecoin issuance, custody, and exchange products under the same federal regulatory entity, adding OCC federal oversight on top of its existing state licenses. The company will operate under the name Bastion Platforms National Trust Company, providing stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure, and white-label issuance services.Bastion previously obtained a New York trust license in February 2025. Under the new charter, the company will offer custodial services for USDC and other digital assets compliant with the GENIUS Act, as well as white-label stablecoin wallet and issuance services (minting, redemption, and exchange), and continue to provide technology and operational infrastructure to other regulated issuers. Bastion itself does not issue stablecoins but primarily provides technology, operations, and compliance stacks for enterprise stablecoin projects.Bastion also appointed four new advisors: Colleen Taylor (Board, former President of American Express U.S. Merchant Services), Michael Patterson (Board, former Chief Compliance Officer of Genesis), Stuart Breslow (Advisor, former Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley), and Gabriella Fitzgerald (Advisor, former CEO of Optum Financial Medical Payments).

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman posted on the X platform, stating, "We have now entered the altcoin season, and the real market moment has arrived earlier than expected." David Hoffman announced on May 21 that he had liquidated his ETH holdings and subsequently bought VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT, all of which have significantly outperformed ETH.

According to an analysis by Cointelegraph of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) MiCA registration data, the number of banks on the EU MiCA crypto service provider list has doubled from about 40 on June 26 to about 80 on September 16, with the proportion rising from about 17% to nearly 23%, approaching one-quarter. During the same period, the total number of registered Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP) increased from 243 to 349, but the proportion of non-bank service providers decreased from about 84% to 77%, reflecting a relative shrinkage.Germany is the main driving force behind this round of bank expansion, with several cooperative banks and commercial banks recently appearing on ESMA's MiCA registration list, including Volksbank, Raiffeisenbank, and VR Bank. Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, also announced on Wednesday plans to launch digital asset custody services for institutional and corporate clients in Europe. A spokesperson for the bank told Cointelegraph that regulatory approval under MiCA is expected in October.Unlike crypto companies that need to apply for CASP authorization, banks can provide crypto asset services through the notification procedure stipulated in Article 60 of MiCA, allowing them to bypass the standard CASP authorization process by simply submitting the required information to their national regulatory authority at least 40 working days before offering the service for the first time.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Deutsche Bank plans to offer Bitcoin and digital asset custody services for European institutions and enterprises by the end of 2026, pending regulatory review approval.Corporate Bank Co-Head Gerald Podobnik stated that this service will run parallel to the existing system, with specific configurations determined by client needs, regulatory requirements, and the bank's risk appetite.

SoftBank Group has expanded its credit line to $6.5 billion, increasing it by $450 million to provide greater financial flexibility for its investments in the field of artificial intelligence.The original $6.05 billion credit line is set to expire this month and has now been extended for another year. More than 20 banks participated in the expansion, with the new agreement's interest rate 210 basis points above the benchmark.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. SYN has increased by 9.47% in the last 24 hours, while BAND, KNC, MASK, NEO, YFI, and GMT have reached new highs today, with increases of 7.62%, 5.46%, 5.82%, 6.61%, 6.02%, and 5.2% respectively.On the other hand, DASH is in a "high and then low" state, with a decrease of 5.01% in the last 24 hours. BANK has slightly risen by 3.15% within 5 minutes.

Market news reports that SoftBank will increase the margin loan size secured by Arm stock by 5 billion dollars, to 25 billion dollars.

Binance founder CZ posted on X: Why do some people think banks need to be afraid of blockchain, or that banks need protection? Blockchain is a faster, cheaper, and easier way to transfer value. Blockchain is an open technology that anyone can use, including banks.

According to a Reuters report, informed sources revealed that Apple is expected to collaborate with India's Axis Bank to launch Apple Pay in India next month.

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman announced on May 21 that he had liquidated his ETH holdings and subsequently bought VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT, disclosing some entry prices: "NEAR at approximately $1.40, HYPE at approximately $45, ZEC at approximately $560, LIT at approximately $1.35."According to Gate market data, LIT is currently priced at $5.02, an increase of about 272% from the entry price; ZEC is currently priced at $1512.42, an increase of about 170%; NEAR is currently priced at $3.49, an increase of about 149%; HYPE is currently priced at $86.51, an increase of about 92%. Hoffman did not disclose the specific entry price for VVV, but if estimated at the May 21 price of $15.99, it is currently priced at $25.27, an increase of about 58%; during the same period, ETH rose from approximately $2127.47 to $2473.23, an increase of about 16%. The five altcoins he allocated significantly outperformed ETH during the same period.

On Friday, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates by 25 basis points as the market expected. After the announcement of the rate hike decision, the Japanese yen weakened against the US dollar and Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin, priced in US dollars, remained basically stable.

Cointelegraph cited a report from The Wall Street Journal stating that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to prevent Binance from obtaining a license across the European Union.

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, accusing it of helping to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the IRGC.The action also targeted the developers of the exchange and three associates of the Iranian financier Babak Zanjani.

The first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., began offering xU3O8 custody services for institutional clients on September 16, 2026. This token is backed by physical uranium concentrate yellowcake, with the related uranium materials stored at Cameco facilities and held in beneficial ownership by a UK trust structure.xU3O8 is issued by Uranium.io, with the UK regulator Archax acting as the trustee, and the underlying assets are mapped through the Etherlink network. Cameco is responsible for storing physical uranium in certified facilities and regularly publishes the results of reserve proof audits. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulates Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., allowing its clients to include xU3O8 in isolation and bankruptcy-remote accounts similar to those for Bitcoin and cash equivalents. Currently, the unit price of xU3O8 is approximately $5.66, with a total market capitalization of about $9 million.

The Bank of England has maintained the policy interest rate at 3.75% for the sixth consecutive meeting and announced the cancellation of the long-term government bond sale plan.Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. plans to invest 1.4 billion yuan to build a new lithium carbonate project in Ya'an with an annual production capacity of 40,000 tons, while Huawei simultaneously released a new computing architecture.