Trump admin redirects billions from universities to AI research
The redirection pulls grant money away from broad academic research and concentrates it on AI, signalling a federal priority shift that universities and labs will feel immediately.
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The redirection pulls grant money away from broad academic research and concentrates it on AI, signalling a federal priority shift that universities and labs will feel immediately.
The 0.2% levy takes effect in January and singles out blockchain infrastructure specifically. TDC's filing argues it violates the Commerce Clause, state uniformity rules, and the federal Internet Tax…
The bill slipped its July target and now leans on an August 7 window; the "your crypto, not the estate's" pitch sells the politics, but the actual carve-outs from bankruptcy clawback remain limited.
The Pentagon bill for the Iran conflict is already past $37B, and Congress has not authorized a single dollar of it, a tab every deficit hawk on Capitol Hill will be watching.
The bill's fate now hinges on a single procedural question: whether state attorneys general or the federal DOJ get the power to police the crypto ban on Trump, Vance and every member of Congress.
The extension lifts the round to $365M with the same flat $2B mark, a vote of confidence from Asian banking capital in the Canton network's institutional ambitions.
BitMine now gives public-market investors a direct equity proxy for Ethereum staking yield, but the structure that produces that yield also locks the firm into a long-dated validator contract.
The reversal comes less than a year after the London-listed firm raised $218M specifically to buy bitcoin, with noteholder conversion refusals forcing an earlier partial unwind.
The Binance founder's framing is the standard adoption-gap thesis, but the friction points he names (on-ramps, stablecoin yields, RWA coverage) are the same ones the sector has been working on for…
The donation lands 23 days after the CFTC joined Gemini's bid to dismiss a derivatives case, sharpening the read that political capital and regulatory relief are moving on the same track.
The claim is small relative to the $10M liability pile, but the optics matter: a co-founder terminated over a token-launch dump scandal now sits in the creditor queue alongside ordinary creditors.
The push ties the market-structure bill to a Trump ethics carve-out, forcing Democrats to weigh the trade-off between political leverage and a once-in-a-decade rulebook for digital assets.
Of roughly $22M raised from 380 investors, only about $2.9M was deployed into mining rigs; the SEC complaint maps a playbook of group-chat signals, fake STOs, and a final withdrawal-fee trap.
Funding is small relative to the threat. The signal is that one of the largest Bitcoin-focused firms is treating post-quantum migration as a near-term engineering problem, not a research curiosity.
The concession is the last unresolved piece of the Clarity Act, and the optics of self-imposed presidential restrictions are the only thing standing between the bill and a floor vote with weeks to…
Solana and Hyperliquid products now hold more than $1.25B combined, a structural altcoin-ETF bid the market has been slow to price in next to the spot BTC cohort.
The bankruptcy caps a year of governance collapse for the Move-based Ethereum layer-2: a market-making deal dumped 66M MOVE tokens, Binance banned the counterparty, co-founder Rushi Manche split, and…
Durov frames it as a friction-killer: instant, zero-fee crypto rails baked into an app that already has a billion-user distribution channel.
The bill opens a tightly capped market for everyday Russians while keeping domestic crypto payments banned and carving out foreign-trade settlement as the real strategic win for Moscow.
Pavel Durov says every Telegram user gets a self-custody wallet with zero-fee crypto transfers this summer, collapsing the onboarding gap between messaging apps and self-sovereign crypto.