01.21.2026

Clear Street Files for IPO

01.21.2026
Clear Street Files for IPO

Matthew Siegel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, said on X:

“Key facts: >Processes $28 B in daily notional value >Roughly 3.4% of total U.S. equities volume, +94% growth in transacted volume >Custodies $16 B in customer balances >Dominates the “crypto treasury” underwriter niche, facilitating $91B in equity/debt deals for firms like MicroStrategy ($MSTR) and Trump Media ($TMTG). >Significant scale and profitability with $422M in last 12 months Adjusted EBITDA as of Q3 2025.

Other “financial plumbing” IPOs like $MIAX (which has nearly doubled from its $23 August 2025 IPO price to ~$44 today) have worked well, giving $CSIG a runway to scale into the “AWS of Capital Markets” if it can execute on its claimed advantage: While bulge bracket firms are offboarding smaller funds due to the manual overhead of legacy reconciliations, $CSIG’s automated, single-ledger stack makes servicing emerging managers profitable at any scale, according to the company.”

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Delaware Life Insurance Company is becoming the first insurance carrier to offer an index that contains cryptocurrency, adding the BlackRock U.S. Equity Bitcoin Balanced Risk 12% Index to its fixed index annuity (FIA) portfolio.

As the digital assets industry pushes toward

Franklin Templeton is expanding its tokenized fund suite, signaling growing institutional demand for blockchain-based fund infrastructure and regulated investment products moving onchain. Read the full article below:

$50 billion in active ETF inflows helped fuel a record year for @BlackRock 's iShares business, as investors continue to lean into active strategies.

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