AFL-CIO warns CLARITY Act could push crypto into 401(k)s
The AFL-CIO letter frames the fight as a 401(k) issue, not a bank-versus-stablecoin fight — and arrives as 100+ amendments and an 8,000-letter banking campaign target the same bill.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
The AFL-CIO letter frames the fight as a 401(k) issue, not a bank-versus-stablecoin fight — and arrives as 100+ amendments and an 8,000-letter banking campaign target the same bill.
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The crackdown funnels mainland retail back toward onshore venues and licensed cross-border channels — a tailwind for centralized exchanges and on-chain US stock trading that have already been…
The 37-bank consortium must close a roughly 450-to-1 liquidity gap versus USDT and USDC by the time tokenized EU assets pick a settlement default — and that window closes the moment European bond and…
The push lands under Japan's tight gambling regime, where even casino licenses are still emerging — making a 2030 timeline less a deadline and more a positioning statement from a platform needing…
South Korea is considering scrapping its long-planned 22% crypto gains tax entirely, a move that would mark a…
Japan is a top-3 prediction-market TAM and Polymarket is currently blocked there — but the path runs through a Penal Code that criminalizes habitual gambling, and Kalshi is closing the volume gap…
The 50,000-signature threshold forces a parliamentary review of a 22% crypto gains tax already delayed three times — and lands just as the National Tax Service said it would push ahead regardless.
Rapidan Energy Group is sounding one of the starkest macro alarms of the year: if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed…
Sixteen years ago today, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made what is now the most famous transaction in cryptocurrency…
Polymarket is pursuing regulatory authorization to operate prediction markets in Japan, targeting a launch by 2030…
The Fram2 mission puts a Bitcoin mining veteran on Starship's debut human Mars fly-by and on the prior circumlunar flight with Dennis Tito — bridging two sectors that share a deep-space-engineering…
The prediction-market platform has appointed a Tokyo representative and is preparing a lobbying push — but its own site still blocks Japanese IPs, underscoring how wide the regulatory gap remains.
Sixteen years ago today, Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made history by paying 10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John's…
The Binance founder framed it as cultural, not strategic: countries that don't broadcast their BTC accumulation will likely outpace those that do, with crypto's transparency also a regulatory asset.
The Wyoming senator is making the case for the CLARITY Act on the floor — framing consumer protection and regulatory certainty as the same fight rather than opposing ones.
President Donald Trump stated that gasoline prices will fall once Iran "stops its actions," linking energy market…
At Bitcoin 2026, Arthur Hayes argued mass white-collar displacement by AI could trigger a multi-hundred-billion-dollar banking failure — a deflationary shock he says was already dragging BTC lower.
Alaska Representative Nick Begich has introduced legislation in Congress that would formally recognize and codify…