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May 20The 'Crypto President's' Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share●May 20Kraken Fought the Fed for 5 Years to Get a Master Account. Trump Just Ordered Regulators to Fast-Track It for Everyone.●May 19A Hacker 'Stole' $76M in Bitcoin Today. The Actual Damage? $816K.●May 19Warren Just Called Coinbase's Bank Charter Illegal — and She Wants Trump's Texts to Prove It●May 189,000 Bitcoin ATMs Went Dark Overnight — America's Largest Crypto ATM Operator Just Filed for Bankruptcy●May 18Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished●May 17Italy's $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana●May 17Wall Street Is Lobbying the Government to Kill the Exchange Eating Its Lunch●May 16A Country's Bitcoin Fund Says 'I Don't Recall Selling' — But the Blockchain Remembers Everything●May 16Web3 Salaries Just Crashed 75% — From $553K to $138K in 16 Months●May 20The 'Crypto President's' Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share●May 20Kraken Fought the Fed for 5 Years to Get a Master Account. Trump Just Ordered Regulators to Fast-Track It for Everyone.●May 19A Hacker 'Stole' $76M in Bitcoin Today. The Actual Damage? $816K.●May 19Warren Just Called Coinbase's Bank Charter Illegal — and She Wants Trump's Texts to Prove It●May 189,000 Bitcoin ATMs Went Dark Overnight — America's Largest Crypto ATM Operator Just Filed for Bankruptcy●May 18Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished●May 17Italy's $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana●May 17Wall Street Is Lobbying the Government to Kill the Exchange Eating Its Lunch●May 16A Country's Bitcoin Fund Says 'I Don't Recall Selling' — But the Blockchain Remembers Everything●May 16Web3 Salaries Just Crashed 75% — From $553K to $138K in 16 Months●

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Italy's $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana

May 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.