Good Morning Bitcoin, 6 August
Today's Snapshot
- BNY and Galaxy bring staking to $62.6T custody platform
- Western Union's Solana stablecard targets $100B remittance market
BNY Mellon just partnered with Galaxy to add staking to its custody platform, which oversees $62.6 trillion in assets. That's the clearest sign yet that institutional capital sees public blockchain infrastructure as a permanent fixture. And Western Union just put $100 billion a year of remittances on a public ledger via a Solana stablecoin card. Each story points to the same destination. Let's get into it:
BNY and Galaxy partner to bring staking to the world's largest custody platform
The news BNY, the largest custodian bank in the US, announced on August 4 that it's partnering with Galaxy to add staking support to its Digital Asset Custody platform.
Eligible institutional clients will be able to stake assets held in BNY custody without moving them to another venue. The whole arrangement needs regulatory review, and there's no launch timeline yet.
More on this BNY oversees $62.6 trillion in assets under custody and $2.2 trillion under management as of June 30, 2026. The partnership makes Galaxy BNY's exclusive staking infrastructure provider and design partner for the expansion.
BNY already offers crypto custody, fund accounting, tax, payments and client reporting. Staking is the next logical step.
The key structural feature here is that assets stay in custody during staking. Institutional clients don't have to risk moving assets to a third-party staking venue, which has always been a barrier for institutions in proof-of-stake networks.
What's next? Regulatory clearance is the gating item. Once obtained, BNY's institutional client base - pension funds, sovereign wealth vehicles, asset managers - will get a staking-enabled pathway into digital asset yield without extra custody risk.
Galaxy gets the most prestigious white-label staking distribution deal in the institutional market.
The Takeaway
BNY choosing a public blockchain partner for its core custody infrastructure is the institutional signal that public rails have won the enterprise argument.
BNY has $62.6 trillion in assets under custody. It didn't build a private chain. It didn't deploy a permissioned ledger.
It picked an infrastructure firm that operates on public networks. That's the institutional settlement on the private-versus-public debate, coming from the biggest custodian in the country.
The next question is which public infrastructure wins the data and payments mandate - not just the yield mandate. BSV's Chronicle-upgraded network, with no artificial block limits, deterministic fees and a settled protocol, is the architecture built for the institutional layer BNY just confirmed is real.
When the staking dust settles, the durable custody infrastructure story is always-on settlement at global scale. That's BSV's home ground.
Western Union's Solana stablecard puts $100 billion a year of remittances on a public ledger
The news Western Union launched Stablecard on August 4 in partnership with Rain, a stablecoin platform.
The product lets customers receive Western Union money transfers as USDPT, a US dollar stablecoin issued on Solana and spend the balance instantly anywhere Visa is accepted.
The service launched across 37 markets. Western Union is targeting more than 60 by year-end.
The company moves about $100 billion across borders annually for roughly 100 million customers.
More on this USDPT is issued by Anchorage Digital on Solana. Users can redirect eligible remittances into Stablecard via a "Cash Redirect" feature or transfer USDPT from a supported wallet or exchange.
The card supports Apple Pay and Google Pay. Western Union says Stablecard went live after completing identity verification requirements in each launch market.
USDPT has under $6 million in current circulation. That figure will need to scale by several orders of magnitude to touch the $100 billion remittance volume Western Union handles annually.
What's next? The gap between USDPT's current $6 million float and a $100 billion annual flow means this is an infrastructure build, not an instant volume transfer.
Western Union will need to build liquidity corridors, expand Stablecard availability and grow the float before on-chain settlement can displace its legacy wire infrastructure.
The 60-market target by year-end is the near-term milestone.
The Takeaway
Western Union's choice to move $100 billion of remittances onto a public ledger validates BSV's core thesis - the question is which public ledger earns the permanent mandate.
Western Union didn't build a database. It didn't use a bank's internal system.
It chose a public blockchain to settle remittances for 100 million customers. That decision validates everything BSV has argued since its genesis block: the future of global payments is a transparent, always-on public ledger where settlement is final and fees are near zero.
Solana was the chain selected here, and that's a fact. But the same selection criteria that led Western Union to a public ledger - throughput, low cost, global access - are what BSV was built to maximise at a scale no current chain has matched.
When enterprises need not just stablecoin transfer but permanent, auditable, data-rich settlement records for compliance, trade finance and supply chain, the ledger that handles $100 billion in daily payments without congestion or fee spikes is the one that wins the mandate.
BSV is still building toward that throughput. The Western Union launch is the clearest proof yet that the destination is real.
What to Watch
- SBF's Second Circuit appeal rejected, Supreme Court the last option: The Second Circuit just upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's seven FTX fraud convictions, his 25-year sentence and an $11 billion forfeiture order on August 5.
- Base stablecoin volume hits $26.1 trillion in 2026 with five months left: Coinbase's Base network ran $26.1 trillion in stablecoin volume through July, already topping its full-year 2025 total of $17.5 trillion.
- Block's bitcoin gross profit falls 31% as Cash App cuts fees: Block Inc. reported a 31% drop in bitcoin-related gross profit after slashing Cash App fees, according to its second quarter shareholder letter published on August 5.
The chain that settles the question of scale is the chain that earns the mandate.