Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
The proposal frames XRPL as settlement infrastructure for climate-contingent notes, putting the ledger inside a formal UK policy debate for the first time.
The Senate has roughly four working weeks before August recess to clear a bill the House already passed 294-134, and Polymarket traders have already cut 2026 passage odds to 48% from 74% a month ago.
Crypto M&A hit $9.37B across H1 2026, a 26x year-on-year surge, while active job listings collapsed to 2,932 as AI and compliance reshape the workforce and TradFi scoops up infrastructure.
The 50-basis-point upgrade is small in headline terms, but it revives the soft-landing read: consumer spending held up faster than the first print suggested.
Jakarta's P2SK Law gives stablecoins and digital financial assets statutory standing, while in Europe the MiCA stablecoin issuer deadline forces Tether and Circle to pick a market.
SBI already runs a domestic crypto arm and backs several tokenised-asset initiatives, so taking Bitbank fully in-house consolidates a regulated retail venue under a balance sheet that regulators…
Senator Lummis named a specific month for a floor vote on digital-asset market structure, the most concrete timeline a US lawmaker has given since the bill was introduced and a marker institutional…
The call lands on a 4-year cycle model with MSTR mNAV as the anchor. If BTC has already made a 20-month low, the predicted Oct-Dec 2026 floor sits well below current price action.
Approval gives Ripple a regulated yen corridor to a G7 market where licensed banks and trust companies have dominated stablecoin issuance, putting RLUSD in rare company among non-domestic entrants.
Japan runs one of the world's strictest stablecoin regimes, so clearing a foreign-issued dollar token for both institutional and retail use is a credential the rest of Asia will read closely.
The figure is unusually large for a single sanctioned-jurisdiction channel, and it lands on a venue already on US watchlists, sharpening the enforcement read for every other mid-tier exchange.
The phrasing lands as a campaign-style reset to a risk-on posture, with rate-cut expectations, a softer dollar, and pro-crypto regulatory tailwinds already priced into US equity and BTC positioning.
Brian Armstrong used a POLITICO slot to argue crypto has gone bipartisan in Washington, framing digital assets as the answer to fees, delays, and unequal access.
A House Financial Services hearing put the Fed's new direct-access proposal on the hot seat, with lawmakers warning that giving crypto firms a line to the central bank carries systemic and…
The survey lands as Congress weighs the Predicting Our Predictions Act and Kalshi/Polymarket battle state-by-state over which platforms stay live.
The housing bill's four-year CBDC prohibition is collateral damage in a fight over the SAVE America Act, and the delay now threatens the Clarity Act's already tight Senate window.
Arredondo argues the bottleneck is not hostility but a divide between policy ambition and on-the-ground delivery, leaving startups to navigate legacy rules while wholesale firms move fast.
Stablecoins have outgrown a $300B supply, but only about a tenth of US bank assets sit at community lenders, the structural point the deposit-drain argument keeps dodging in the Clarity Act debate.
The House Financial Services Committee hands the market a new date, yet a 60-vote cloture hurdle and at least five uncommitted Democrats keep the path to President Trump's desk genuinely uncertain.
The launch gives Japan its first yen stablecoin issued by a trust bank and the first classified as an electronic payment instrument under the Payment Services Act, putting a regulated bank entity…
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