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Legal experts&#8217; skepticism may lead to case dismissal, impacting market 
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Apple&#8217;s strategic shift to high-margin services may bolster its long-term 
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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said this week that Bitcoin is part of 
classified Defense Department efforts to project power and counter China. Key 
Takeaways: Pete Hegseth told Congress on April 30, 2026, that Bitcoin efforts 
are classified inside the Pentagon. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. confirmed INDOPACOM 
runs 1 Bitcoin node and tests protocol […]

Pentagon Eyes Bitcoin Infrastructure as Strategic Asset, Hegseth Says

Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg said a future move by major banks to put 
Bitcoin on their balance sheets is “not totally out of the question,” pointing 
to regulatory progress while warning that capital rules and global supervisory 
alignment still matter. Speaking during a Bitcoin 2026 conference panel, 
Oldenburg was asked what it would take for a bank like Morgan Stanley, or 
another regulated financial institution, to make the leap from offering 
Bitcoin exposure to actually holding Bitcoin as a treasury asset. “Bitcoin on 
the balance sheet,” she said, pausing on the premise. “You know, I think if we 
continue to see the progress that we’ve made over the last 16 months or so in 
regulatory, that that’s something that you may see going forward. It’s not 
totally out of the question.” Morgan Stanley And Bitcoin? That answer is 
notable less because it signals an imminent move and more because it frames 
the idea as procedurally possible. For years, the bank balance sheet question 
has sat on the far end of institutional Bitcoin adoption: beyond ETFs, beyond 
custody, beyond client access, and into the realm of prudential capital, 
examiner expectations, accounting, liquidity planning and board-level risk 
appetite. Oldenburg’s caveat was that the constraint is not a single rule. She 
pointed first to SAB 121, the SEC accounting guidance that had made it more 
difficult for banks to custody crypto assets at scale before its rollback 
changed part of the equation. But she immediately widened the lens. Related 
Reading: Bitcoin To $125,000: Arthur Hayes Says The Setup Is Turning Bullish 
“I think the other thing too is we were talking about SAB 121 rolling back on 
the capital treatment, but it’s not just that that holds us back,” she said. 
“It’s Fed guidance, it’s Basel guidance. When you’re a large G-sub bank, it’s 
not just one agency that you report to.” That is the core of the issue for a 
firm like Morgan Stanley. A global systemically important bank does not 
evaluate Bitcoin only through a market-risk lens. It has to satisfy multiple 
regulators, capital frameworks and jurisdictional expectations at once. 
Oldenburg said large banks have “many oversight groups” to attend to and need 
“a little bit more alignment across the board with some of those agencies.” 
The Backdrop The Basel point is especially important. The Basel Committee’s 
cryptoasset standard places the most conservative treatment on unbacked crypto 
assets such as Bitcoin, and industry advocates have argued that the 1,250% 
risk-weight treatment effectively makes direct bank balance-sheet exposure 
uneconomic. The Basel Committee said in February 2026 that it had expedited a 
targeted review of its prudential standard for banks’ cryptoasset exposures, 
with an update expected later in the year. The Bitcoin Policy Institute has 
been trying to push that debate into the US implementation process. In March, 
the group said it planned to review and comment on the Federal Reserve’s 
coming Basel proposal, arguing that the current treatment discourages banks 
from holding or servicing Bitcoin because of the punitive risk weight. Related 
Reading: Analyst Reveals Bitcoin Big Picture, Predicts 50% Crash By EOY The US 
side has also been moving, though not in a straight line toward bank-owned 
Bitcoin. In April 2025, the Federal Reserve withdrew earlier guidance tied to 
banks’ crypto-asset and dollar-token activities, saying the move would keep 
expectations aligned with evolving risks and support innovation in the banking 
system. The FDIC and OCC also moved away from prior-approval style frameworks 
for permissible crypto activity, while maintaining that banks still need sound 
risk management. More recently, US banking agencies clarified that eligible 
tokenized securities should generally receive the same capital treatment as 
their non-tokenized equivalents, describing the capital rule as technology 
neutral. That clarification does not solve Bitcoin’s balance-sheet treatment, 
because Bitcoin is not a tokenized version of a traditional security. But it 
does show regulators separating blockchain rails from asset risk, rather than 
treating every digital-asset exposure as the same category. That distinction 
helps explain Oldenburg’s answer. The path for a bank to hold Bitcoin is not 
simply “regulators become more pro-crypto.” The first point is Basel: if 
Bitcoin remains subject to the most punitive capital treatment, a G-SIB has 
little economic incentive to warehouse it as a treasury asset, even if client 
demand is clear. The second point is Federal Reserve supervision: even after 
recent rollbacks, large banks still need a coherent examiner framework that 
tells them how Bitcoin exposure will be judged across safety and soundness, 
liquidity, operational risk and capital planning. At press time, BTC traded at 
$1.3716. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

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