The $11.2 billion in 2026 funding that killed crypto’s permissionless era
ORIGINAL REPORTOPEN COINDESK REPORT ↗Dubai based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver and her team parsed every crypto deal in the first half of 2026. BlackRock, Goldman, and Persian Gulf sovereigns all wrote checks to regulated NEWSROOM has not yet found an additional independently operated outlet reporting the same central facts.
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The $11.2 billion in 2026 funding that killed crypto’s permissionless era
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