Traditional banks team up with crypto platforms, expanding institutional-grade financial service ecosystems

【Chain Wen】Big moves are coming. The integration of traditional finance and crypto is becoming increasingly tight. Recently, Standard Chartered Bank and a compliance platform announced a deepening of their partnership, with both parties planning to pave the way for institutional investors—integrating services like trading, custody, staking, and lending.

This sounds simple, but the underlying logic is quite clear: traditional financial institutions are realizing that Web3 finance is indeed an unavoidable track. The two have already laid a cooperative foundation in Singapore, and now they are working to deepen and refine it. For example, Standard Chartered is already providing users with real-time transfers of new tokens and other convenient services.

From an institutional perspective, what does this mean? It means the barriers to entering the crypto market are lowering, while risk control and compliance protections are improving. Core needs like custody and staking, which were originally concerns for institutional clients, now have traditional bank backing, making their psychological expectations much more comfortable.