Bitcoin doesn't need institutions to be successful. But they will help accelerate adoption and accessibility for the masses.
Op-ed @_evalawrence@arcane_crypto.
https://t.co/J20fFFqzgQ
Today, Figment announced a collaboration with @BNYglobal to support BNY’s staking offering through Figment’s validator infrastructure.
Eligible clients will have secure, integrated access to staking via BNY Digital Asset Custody.
Read the full announcement: https://t.co/u8zJenVkPk
The exchanges, clearing houses, settlement systems and depositories behind every trade (financial market infrastructures, or FMIs) earn about $31.5bn a year.
Our new Solana Research Institute report works out how much of that survives when the same business runs on public blockchains. If regulation stops protecting the incumbents, we estimate they keep about $11.2bn, with the other $20.3bn going to users as lower costs or to new competitors.
We also found that new onchain services could come close to replacing that revenue, which raises the question of who wins them 🧵
1/ Grateful to have joined Mintoo Bhandari, @h_joshua_rivera, @michalis_fr, and @_evalawrence at @SALTConference in London to discuss the future of onchain banking.
I also sat down with the SALT team to share more about what we're building at @MidnightNtwrk and its role in the future of financial infrastructure.
The Operator Question: How Validator Choice Shapes Staking Outcomes 🇬🇧
Join Figment and @Solana_SRI at House of Sol in London for a session on where Solana rewards come from, how block building shapes them, and how to evaluate a validator.
Limited spaces, registration subject to approval 👇
https://t.co/eoByYxD32D
Figment is attending @SALTConference London 🇬🇧
Catch @_evalawrence on “Building the New Banking Rails: Improving Capital Efficiency With FinTech” at 10:40am on Wednesday, November 4th.
Click the link below to book a meeting with the team👇
🔗 https://t.co/sva351CEgV
Join @n_yushkevich Yushkevich and Tom Nicholls for the "Operator Question: How Validator Choice Shapes Staking Outcomes" roundtable hosted with @Solana_SRI.
This discussion will cover where staking rewards come from, how block building and transaction ordering shape rewards, and what's changing with upcoming network upgrades.
Register here: https://t.co/eoByYxD32D
Arc Mainnet is live.
Arc launches as the Economic OS for the internet: an open platform for global markets, real-time value movement, tokenized assets, and agentic economic activity.
Arc is more than a blockchain.
It launches as a full-stack financial platform with assets, applications, interoperability, developer infrastructure, and Circle platform services live from day one.
Arc delivers USDC as native gas, deterministic sub-second finality, EVM compatibility, and institutional validators.
It integrates with Arc Studio, App Kits, Arc Portal, Circle Agent Stack, CCTP, Gateway, CPN, and StableFX.
A complete economic platform at genesis.
Arc launches with infrastructure for:
→ Agentic economic workflows
→ Lending and borrowing
→ Trading and liquidity
→ Onchain FX
→ Payments and settlement
→ Tokenized assets
→ Exchanges, wallets, custody, compliance, data, and developer tooling
190+ institutional and ecosystem builders are building across Arc.
Figment is a genesis validator on @arc, @circle's new Layer 1 built for institutional settlement in USDC.
Arc launches in Proof-of-Authority and is designed to transition to Proof-of-Stake in a later phase, with validator rewards evolving from transaction fees to staking rewards.
We break down what this means for institutions evaluating Arc 👇
https://t.co/Fp8QUcTyed
Figment named Staking Services Provider of the Year at the @Hedgeweek Global Digital Assets Awards 2026. 🏆
This recognition belongs to the clients and partners who trust us to deliver at scale.
The work continues.
https://t.co/nTUoZoVni6
Encouraged by Thursday's CLARITY Act markup in the US. The latest draft language continues to recognize staking and non-custodial validator operations as technical infrastructure. One step closer to statute. Figment is engaged with @BlockchainAssn and @crypto_council as this unfolds.
We are proud to be a founding member of the @Solana_SRI 🌐
Institutions need frameworks for evaluating risk, performance, and more across the full protocol lifecycle. That's exactly what @Solana_SRI is building.
Better data. Clear benchmarks. Read more below 👇
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They must be incredibly bored!
Figment is at @signalweek next week to dig into Custody, clearing, and execution.
@_evalawrence is on stage April 15th at 2:20pm — "Institutional Crypto Stack: Custody, Clearing & Execution at Scale".
Going to be in Paris? Book time with the team below. ⬇️
🔗 https://t.co/AwviZCXtOq
Apps inside ChatGPT are the way to get your business discovered by 900M+ people using it, but building them is still too hard.
So we built Fractal: @Lovable for ChatGPT Apps
It’s the fastest way for business owners, with or without a technical team, to ship exceptional ChatGPT apps
Stablecoins took a step closer to embedded infrastructure with @tempo's announcement.
Figment is proud to support @Tempo, bringing our compliance, security, and reliability to stablecoin infrastructure.
Congratulations to the @Tempo team. The work continues.
Figment is proud to have been selected as a validator for @BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB).
Staking participation is at all-time highs. More ETH staked in the network makes Ethereum more secure and resilient for those building onchain.
Congratulations to the @BlackRock team.
https://t.co/gFeCVdZ39j
Walking into @Figment_io’s event during #ADFW feels like coming full circle. Same happy Figment user faces now happy @chainlink users. Love this space! w/ the powerhouse @_evalawrence