Crypto Feels Dead. This Bank Just Spent Millions Betting It Isn't.

Ex-Bitstamp boss Julian Sawyer sold his custody firm to Standard Chartered. He says crypto getting absorbed into banks isn't a loss. It's the win. (Credit: IBTimes US)

Julian Sawyer has spent the better part of a decade in the trenches of crypto, first running Bitstamp, now steering Zodia Custody.

So it lands with some weight when he tells IBT the most exciting future for digital assets is the one where nobody talks about them at all.