Bitwise CIO Walks Back Winter Warning on Clarity Act Failure
Hougan's reversal points to the real driver behind the headline: SEC and CFTC rulemaking are quietly filling the legislative gap, and Wall Street is already building around it.
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Hougan's reversal points to the real driver behind the headline: SEC and CFTC rulemaking are quietly filling the legislative gap, and Wall Street is already building around it.
The 290 figure gets the headlines, but Singapore's fourth straight year atop Henley's adoption index is the structural read.
Version 1.1 of the XRPL AI Starter Kit plugs into Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol, giving AI agents a way to pay for services in XRP and opening a route into apps built on a rival…
Russia's largest exchange brings USD-quoted, ruble-settled perps to 72,000+ qualified investors already active in its crypto-linked futures market, with cumulative volume topping RUB 600 billion.
The 24-hour ultimatum, with customer records threatened for sale, turns a fintech security incident into an extortion clock that Revolut and its regulators are now racing.
The exchange's CEO says the agents hold the same information as their human counterparts, so institutional knowledge stays with the role even when staff leave.
The call puts a 25 basis point increase back on the table, a hawkish signal for risk assets that had been pricing the tightening cycle as finished.
The layer-1 lets a single USDC balance cover both payments and fees, and its founding validators include BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and DTCC, putting institutional names inside the network's…
The president says he backs Fed independence even while arguing rates should be lower, a stance risk-asset traders read as pressure for easier monetary policy.
A baseline trade-termination threat tied to a hypothetical political move injects fresh uncertainty into a US-EU relationship already strained by tariff salvos, with markets now pricing the…
The American Reserve Modernization Act would lock Trump's 2025 executive order into statute, directing Treasury to hold bitcoin permanently and acquire more over five years without taxpayer cost.
Another quarter-point move extends the tightening cycle, and risk assets from equities to crypto now have to price a higher-for-longer path.
The new Fed chair is staking his credibility on price stability over risk-asset relief, a stance that sets the tone for every cut expectation priced into markets.
The Fundstrat head is sticking with a multi-year bullish call into year-end, with the question being whether the bid he has been front-running finally arrives or keeps sliding into the next quarter.
Another quarter-point move extends the tightening cycle, and the marginal dollar of liquidity for crypto and equities just got more expensive to chase.
The group targeted crypto-heavy customers using blockchain analysis, and 680 accounts had identity documents and transaction histories exposed in the breach.
Federal legislation to hold bitcoin as a sovereign reserve asset clears a House committee, moving the US closer to treating BTC alongside gold and foreign currencies.
The pressure campaign lands as markets price in easing, with risk assets from Bitcoin to equities sitting on the other side of every Fed cut.
The unusually blunt language puts the executive branch on a collision course with the central bank and revives questions about Fed independence at a sensitive moment for rate expectations.
A seat at the table for AI's most prominent CEO signals that artificial intelligence now sits squarely on the US-China diplomatic agenda alongside trade and tariffs.