Senate Clarity Act Draft Bars Presidents From Issuing Crypto
The amendment closes a loophole the White House did not need to exploit publicly, but locking the bar into statute shifts ethics from policy preference into binding law.
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The amendment closes a loophole the White House did not need to exploit publicly, but locking the bar into statute shifts ethics from policy preference into binding law.
A 14-year SEC veteran exits as the Enforcement Division navigates a shifting enforcement agenda and a leadership refresh at the top.
The strongest positioning shift of the year meets the bear market's heaviest supply ceiling: reclaim the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis and an air pocket opens to $84K; rejection sends the tape back to…
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250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The $150K fee award to History Associates is a footnote; the real concession is the SEC's agreement to review how it preserves staff text messages.
The headline provision is the developer safe harbor, but the ethics clause carrying a 2029 sunset is the political deal that lets the bill actually move.
Indivisible and Demand Progress are blasting the senator's family crypto ties, framing the CLARITY Act ethics rules as a lobbying loophole worth killing the bill over.
The draft preserves protections for non-custodial DeFi developers, but its temporary ethics provision and lack of Democratic buy-in leave the Senate path uncertain.
The proposal targets conflicts of interest at the highest levels of government, a governance signal that could shape how markets assess US crypto policy.
The commissioner stopped short of calling any protocol a security outright, instead laying out which structural features would draw the SEC's eye: yield strategy, LTV, liquidations, asset allocation.
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The NCA's first jobs audit puts a number on the US crypto sector that policymakers can no longer hand-wave away: 34,000 direct hires, 232,000 jobs supported, and outsized concentration in California…
The 53% markup in under a year, lifting Revolut past Barclays, lands alongside a UK banking license and a US charter pursuit as crypto banking goes mainstream.
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
Britain's 2027 tokenized sovereign bond pilot has Treasury, BoE and FCA backing, but the absence of a credible pound stablecoin means the onchain settlement layer is still the bottleneck.
The company-level ban and nine-figure judgment land without the founders as parties, leaving their parallel federal cases to set the precedent on individual liability for the collapse.
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The Treasury keeps renewing licenses that let US refiners buy sanctioned Venezuelan crude, with collections this year already past thirteen billion and big Louisiana and Texan Gulf operators among…