Crypto Is Edging Further Into Mainstream Finance, BlackRock and Coinbase Chiefs Say
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Wednesday that growing interest from institutions and lawmakers was pulling digital assets further into the mainstream of finance.
Speaking at the New York Times DealBook Summit with host and journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Armstrong said recent moves on stablecoin and market-structure legislation signalled a shift in the policy landscape.
“2025 is actually the year that crypto regulation went from kind of gray market to well-lit establishment,” he said. “The Genius Act passed, the House passed a market-structure bill in a bipartisan way that’s now moving on to the Senate, and I think that’s going to be the first one where the Senate passes it as well.”
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