JPMorgan’s $4.7T private blockchain warning just gave Bitcoin bulls fresh ammunition
The post JPMorgan’s $4.7T private blockchain warning just gave Bitcoin bulls fresh ammunition appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. JPMorgan sees Wall Street’s shift toward private blockchains as a deeper threat to Bitcoin than Strategy selling its BTC. JPMorgan warned that shifting tokenization, payments, and settlement onto closed networks could drain activity, liquidity, and capital from crypto while pushing valuations lower. Hybrid public-private systems, tighter stablecoin rules, and Bitcoin’s staying power as digital gold could still upset that outlook. Swift said 17 banks across six continents, including Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered, UBS, Wells Fargo, and Itaú Unibanco, will begin testing live tokenized deposit payments on its new blockchain ledger, opening the door to round-the-clock transfers. DTCC said on May 4 that over 50 firms, among them BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, and NYSE, joined its tokenization working group, with limited production trades plann