OCC's New Fee Clearance Shows Further Ease Around Crypto

By Michael Dawson, Abradat Kamalpour and Nicholas Podsiadly ( January 21, 2026, 5:43 PM EST) -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has held for the first time that national banks may hold crypto-assets as principal on their balance sheets in order to pay reasonably expected amounts of "network fees" or "gas fees" on blockchain networks....

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