Crypto news used to mean hacks and crashes, but this week it reads like a banking report. Bitcoin dipped below $80,000 on October 16, then bounced back to $81,000 within hours, per Yahoo Finance.

Yet two days earlier, Kraken’s parent company Payward signed a deal to buy Saldo Bank in Lithuania, Crypto Briefing reported. Each time banks stepped closer to crypto in the past, prices followed within months.

That news pulls big money toward the big coins. Meanwhile, something smaller is building right below it: Pepeto, a crypto project whose safety scanner already works, with above $11.2 million raised.

Why Is Kraken Buying a Bank the Biggest Crypto News This Week?

Payward signed the deal on October 14 to buy Saldo Finance, the…