BlackRock Endorses 1-2% Bitcoin Allocation in Portfolios
The endorsement matters less for the 1-2% number than for what it signals: BlackRock is now teaching advisors how to position BTC inside a traditional 60/40.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
The endorsement matters less for the 1-2% number than for what it signals: BlackRock is now teaching advisors how to position BTC inside a traditional 60/40.
The chamber cleared a multi-year moratorium on a retail Fed digital dollar, sending the fight to the Senate where central-bank digital currency policy has split both parties.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act cleared the House on Tuesday with a CBDC prohibition tucked in, setting up a near-term ban on a US central bank digital currency through 2030.
A formal draft from Senate Banking would end years of piecemeal IRS guidance, replacing it with statutory rules on custody, DeFi, and reporting that the industry has lobbied for since 2022.
The economist who called the 2008 crisis is co-authoring USAFi, a tokenized version of his own Nasdaq-listed Atlas America Fund, scheduled to launch under Dubai's VARA in Q3 2026.
The ask is procedural, but the political weight lands on the institutional crypto world's read of US policy: any hearing forces public disclosure of World Liberty Financial's foreign-investor stack…
A one-day $1T loss in US market cap is the kind of move usually reserved for a Fed surprise or a 2020-style shock. The fact that it printed on a quiet tape is the signal.
The two executive orders never name bitcoin, but the US push into post-quantum cryptography puts federal R&D muscle behind the same math bitcoin would need if quantum ever gets close.
The federal derivatives regulator argues Kentucky's sports-betting challenge to event-contract venues intrudes on the exclusive congressional scheme that governs national swaps markets.
A scheduled markup is the next real test for the market-structure bill; the crypto industry has spent two years pushing for it, and a House vote before recess is now on the table.
The Alliance to End Human Trafficking argues a specific section would make it harder to oversee illicit activity, framing the bill as a moral as well as a regulatory question.
The Federal Public Ministry says the pseudonymous nature of crypto assets undermines the traceability rules Brazil's election law has required since 2019, with fines and other penalties for violators.
The regulator and the rails aren't ready, but Wall Street is shipping tokenized funds anyway, and BNY's ETF chief is flagging a quieter problem: hundreds of lookalike ETFs already trade in…
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act freezes any US retail digital dollar through 2030, with Elizabeth Warren, who once called CBDCs a promising alternative to private crypto, now co-authoring the…
Nearly 7M BTC sit in addresses whose public keys are already on-chain, and the White House just compressed the post-quantum migration timeline to five years for civilian agencies.
The 60-vote cloture threshold is the binding constraint: 53 GOP seats plus only 2 Democratic votes in committee means the bill needs 6-7 Democrats it does not yet have, and the August recess clock is…
Roughly 54 roles are going as the Foundation reorganizes around the Mandate and a new Treasury Management Policy, signaling a narrower execution focus at the top of Ethereum's core org.
A 40% spending cut this year is the number, but the real signal is Vitalik framing the EF as a 5%-spend endowment by 2030 while nine senior figures have walked out since January.
The Commission paused a tokenized-equities push to let compliance catch up to real-time settlement. Investors who lost in past debacles know what 24-month T+0 deadlines look like with rule-checking…
The 54-person reduction lands alongside nine senior departures in six months and a separate institutional push led by SharpLink, BitMine, and Joseph Lubin, exposing fault lines inside the ecosystem's…