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Europe’s largest banks are quietly moving into crypto custody & trading. After years of hesitation, 2025 marked the first retail launches. 2026 looks like the acceleration phase as banks respond to client capital flowing to exchanges. Key early movers: 🇪🇸 BBVA: among the first EU banks with retail crypto via MiCA 🇪🇸 Banco Santander (via Openbank): trading and custody expansion 🇫🇷 Groupe BPCE: early retail entry via Hexarq 🇫🇷 Société Générale: institutional custody via SG-FORGE 🇩🇪 DZ Bank: retail platform coming 🇳🇱 ABN AMRO: positioning after MiCA licensing progress 🇳🇱 ING Group: exposure via regulated crypto ETPs What’s driving this shift? - Retail outflows to crypto platforms - Regulatory clarity via MiCA - Demand for bank-grade custody - New fee and asset growth opportunities The question is no longer whether EU banks enter crypto but how fast the late adopters follow.

@SteakhouseFi @zama @Morpho @Spiko_finance @LayerZero_Core Thank you for joining us, @SebVentures @pahyppolite @GuiDechaux @kugusha !

We wrapped up our Blockstories Horizon 2026 event series with a dinner in Paris, bringing together teams from @SteakhouseFi, @zama, @Morpho, @Spiko_finance, and @LayerZero_Core with leaders from the French TradFi ecosystem. 🇫🇷 Great to see the two worlds connect. More to come.

Over the past months, we’ve had many conversations with Treasury teams across banks and multinationals. Those discussions shape how we develop Prividium. Converting it from a great product to a vertical business solution. I am sharing some of my insights with @block_stories.

tonight with @block_stories institutions are coming is not a meme anymore

🔴 We have now entered a race to build infrastructure among banks and traditional financial institutions to offer services related to digital assets👇 In my conversations with these players, the same questions come up almost every time: • How should we build it in-house? • Who are the right partners? • How do we keep up with the pace of innovation? • Where can we find the right talent to build an internal team? Because yes, despite the drop in prices, make no mistake → market demand for digital assets has remained intact. Tomorrow (March 5), @block_stories will host a webinar where four operators will present their solutions for assembling this very stack: 1️⃣ How to distribute tokenized assets across chains — Ivar Wiersma, @LayerZero_Core 2️⃣ How to manage tokenized assets securely — Mark Mayerfeld, GK8 by @glxyresearch 3️⃣ 5 best practices for launching crypto services — Stephanie Hurry, @boersestuttgart Digital 4️⃣ How to transact privately on public networks — Ghazi Ben Amor, @zama After these presentations comes my favorite part: the Q&A after each talk, and especially the breakout rooms, where you’ll be able to spend more time with the speaker who caught your attention the most. Here is the link to register for free: luma.com/xt0oyumc Hope to see you among us tomorrow!

The conversation has shifted from "should we?" to "how do we deploy?" Last week Steakhouse featured at @block_stories Horizon Frankfurt, walking the room through how DeFi vaults enable financial institutions to capture onchain yield.

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"When evaluating privacy solutions, our focus was on whether they could realistically support securities settlement in a regulated market environment." Great case study by @block_stories on the Stuttgart stock exchange's PoC on Aztec! @boersestuttgart

Somewhere in London, @SebVentures from @SteakhouseFi is presenting onchain DeFi vaults on @Morpho to a room full of major traditional institutional players like Fidelity, State Street, Natixis, Janus Henderson, Aon…at the @block_stories workshop. You’re not bullish enough.

Step 1: Every institution with a crypto arm to move their user balances into vaults within the next 12 months. Step 2: Institutions that wouldn’t normally think of themselves as crypto companies will begin to use vaults. @block_stories's latest interview with @0x_JMan 👇

@SebVentures @BlockStories looking forward to it!

Quite excited for the keynote at @BlockStories next week in London. If you are a fintech or a financial institution consider joining => luma.com/sggc3rv6