🚨JUST IN: Banks want blockchain WITHOUT crypto, a trend Ethereum backers call a "race to the bottom," per CoinDesk. Major banks are building private, permissioned chains for tokenization and settlement, locked to approved institutions and closed to the public networks crypto runs on. Etherealize's Vivek Raman says the firms are chasing blockchain branding while trading away the openness that gives the technology its value.(Coin Bureau)