Curious Cryptos’ Commentary 5th September 2025 — US Bancorp & DOGE
tl;dr
US Bancorp re-enters the crypto custody space. A new DOGE treasury fund.
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Curious Cryptos’ Commentary — US Bancorp
US Bancorp, the seventh largest bank in the US with nearly $700bn of assets, started a crypto custodial service for its clients in 2021. This initiative was ended a year later when the SEC’s instrument of torture aka SAB 121 made it totally uneconomical for banks to offer such a service by demanding that clients’ crypto be held on balance sheet with a 10x capital charge. Regular readers know that under the new enlightened management at the SEC, SAB 121 had been rescinded and replaced with much more crypto-friendly SAB 122.
And so, US Bancorp is now back into the crypto custody business:
“We’re proud to have been one of the first banks to offer cryptocurrency custody for fund and institutional clients back in 2021, and we’re excited to resume this service this year.
Following greater regulatory clarity, we’ve expanded our offering to include bitcoin ETFs, which allows us to…
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