Kraken Files for OCC Charter in Surge as Fink Pushes Regs, RWAs Hit $30.9B

A rush for U.S. OCC national trust charters accelerates with Kraken's Payward filing joining Coinbase, Ripple, Circle and others, reducing reliance on partner banks and boosting institutional crypto integration. This follows Consensus Miami 2026 panels where executives from Ondo, Robinhood/Bitstamp and Babylon Labs highlighted tokenized treasuries and blockchain adoption, and Kevin O’Leary noted Wall Street awaits BTC tokenization rules with 97% sector value in BTC/ETH. BlackRock's Larry Fink demands clear regulations amid tokenized RWAs surging to $30.9B from $9.9B yearly, driving BTC from $81,102 to ~$82,697.