Margaret Lane
Covers institutional crypto adoption with the precision of a Bloomberg terminal. Tracks ETF flows, corporate treasury moves, and the slow march of Wall Street into digital assets. Former equities reporter at a financial wire service.
Articles by Margaret Lane
Custody's Real Problem Isn't Security Anymore: 30% of Off-Exchange Crypto Is Trapped Behind Bank Workflows
A BCG study commissioned by Ripple puts more than 30% of off-exchange digital assets inside institutional custody models. The interesting part isn't the number. It's that security stopped being the deciding factor and governance workflows became the bottleneck, which tells you exactly where the custody business is headed.
Grayscale's October 23 Note Splits the AI Trade Into Three Separate Bets
Grayscale's research head Zach Pandl used an October 23 note to separate three AI-crypto business models: DATA on contributed training data, USD.AI on GPU-backed lending, and Pearl on computing rewards. The distinction matters more than the label. Credit risk, token rights and paying customers don't travel together by default.
