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River tweeted:
In keeping with River’s knowledge, greater than half of banks have begun providing Bitcoin custodial providers or buying and selling options to their purchasers. The record contains main names like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon, and Morgan Stanley.
No financial institution apart from PNC Group at present gives each custody and buying and selling providers for digital property, however Citigroup and Fifth Third Financial institution may supply the set quickly.
Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and BNY Mellon are at present focusing solely on HNW (Excessive Web Price) purchasers. A number of legacy banks, together with Huntington Financial institution and Barclays (US), aren’t exploring any choices for the time being.
 
This pattern marks speedy institutional adoption, as three out of the 4 large banks at the moment are permitting publicity to Bitcoin, straight contradicting earlier public denials.
Banks Locked in with Exchanges Over CLARITY Act
Whereas a majority of American banks are at present providing or within the technique of providing Bitcoin providers, monetary establishments are locked in a significant tussle with crypto exchanges over the CLARITY Act.
Trump’s flagship crypto regulatory invoice was launched and handed by the Home of Representatives final yr, but it surely has since been held up within the Senate. The Digital Asset Market Readability Act of 2025 aka the CLARITY Act, a significant U.S. legislative effort to create a complete regulatory framework for digital property.
The Digital asset trade platforms led by Coinbase need to supply staking rewards or yields on stablecoins like USDC and USDT to buyers on their respective platforms. The issue is that these passive yields are considerably greater than rates of interest, and the American Bankers Affiliation opposes regulatory approval of those yields as a result of it will decimate the legacy banking system.
The banks argue that, due to these greater yields, trillions of {dollars} may probably flee these establishments and set off financial institution runs, destroying the present financial system. They’re asking for yield limits and different management measures to rein on this onslaught and hold banks aggressive.
The 2 events are but to achieve a center floor, and the US Senate is about to vote on the most recent proposal on January 29, following earlier delays because of excessive climate.
