Ten Bitcoin and Crypto Companies Reportedly Have Banking Charters Awaiting Approval

The core factual claim is that 10 Bitcoin/crypto-related companies have banking charter applications awaiting approval. The strongest evidence is the OCC’s own 'Digital Assets Licensing Applications - OCC.gov' page, which explicitly lists pending applications from entities planning to offer digital-asset products or services and currently shows 10 such applications. That directly supports the numerical part of the statement. 'OCC Announces Conditional Approvals for Five National Trust Bank Charter Applications' further supports that these are real charter processes under active OCC review. However, the available primary sources do not support the added implication that pending approvals would make access to Bitcoin purchases easier; they describe charter applications and trust-bank activity, not consumer Bitcoin-buying access. Because the source text reportedly omitted company names, regulators, and timelines, the claim as presented was underspecified, but the underlying count is substantially corroborated by the OCC page.