Schwab Debuts Spot Crypto Trading Platform; CleanSpark Mines 658 BTC in March

BBX News — Charles Schwab on Tuesday officially launched Schwab Crypto™, giving its client base access to spot trading in Bitcoin and Ethereum. The brokerage oversees about $1.22 trillion in client assets and serves roughly 39 million active brokerage accounts. The rollout will occur in phases over the next several weeks. Schwab also noted that its clients already represent about 20% of the U.S. spot crypto ETP market. CleanSpark's monthly operations update provided a first-quarter snapshot, reporting 658 BTC mined in March. The company said it held 13,561 BTC and reached a peak hash rate of 50 EH/s, underscoring its position as the largest pure-play Bitcoin miner in the U.S. CEO Matt Schultz said CleanSpark is moving forward with its first major AI and HPC client partnership and continues to build out AI infrastructure as a high-margin growth initiative. Source: bbx.com