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Russia's Biggest Bank Is Building Crypto Infrastructure. Take a Second to Think About That. Sberbank, Russia's state-controlled bank that holds roughly one-third of all Russian banking assets, plans to have crypto trading infrastructure and a digital depository live by December 1. The wallet and custody system will integrate directly into Sberbank Online and SberInvestments. New Russian crypto regulations take effect September 1, and Sberbank is building to meet that regulatory window. This is worth more attention than it's getting in Western crypto media. When a government-majority-owned bank with over 100 million customers builds crypto infrastructure, it signals that digital asset adoption is now a geopolitical calculation, not just a financial one. Russia's motivation is partly about sanctions-era settlement rails that bypass traditional correspondent banking systems. The structure matters. Sberbank's depository will record crypto ownership mostly off-chain, processing most transactions outside the underlying blockchain. Users get exposure to crypto prices without holding keys. It's the TradFi custody playbook applied to digital assets. Not DeFi, not self-sovereign, but mass-scale onboarding. Worth noting: public crypto trading will be limited to assets meeting strict liquidity and market cap thresholds. Practically, that means BTC and ETH as the primary accessible assets at launch. A major state bank going live with crypto by year-end isn't a footnote. Share your thoughts in the comments 👇