Sam Bankman-Fried applies for presidential pardon from Trump
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has applied for a presidential pardon from Donald…
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has applied for a presidential pardon from Donald…
The draft would extend wash-sale rules to digital assets and end a long-standing tax break on Bitcoin, while shielding regulated payment stablecoins from routine gain-or-loss treatment.
The coalition includes Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and a16z — and lands as the bill's biggest test yet, with bipartisan committee passage behind it and a summer floor vote the live deadline.
Banks pushed Congress to strip passive stablecoin rewards — Coinbase and Ethena are now testing whether activity-based yield on idle USDC balances can route around the ban.
The 10% ceiling is the headline; the structural story is that mainstream UK fund wrappers — UCITS included — can now carry regulated crypto exposure without being reclassified as restricted…
Iran has announced the full closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait following Israeli military strikes, a move with…
A hot May CPI print Wednesday could lock in restrictive Fed pricing and extend spot ETF outflows just as $730M in token unlocks hits a market already down nine months from its highs.
HTX claims World Liberty Financial froze exchange-controlled addresses and is weighing legal action; USD1's brief listing window and the political weight of its backers make the delist itself the…
The bank cut its digital-assets view to cautious, sees Strategy's BTC reserve covering only ~6.3 months of preferred dividends, and now puts CLARITY Act passage this year under 50%.
President Donald Trump publicly stated there is no reason to raise interest rates, adding fresh political pressure on…
The framework of venues, custodians, market makers and rules that move trillions in digital assets is being rewritten in Washington — and the CLARITY Act is the most concrete piece of that rewrite on…
Extreme fear, an RSI at record lows, and a chart that mirrors 2018 have bulls and bears split on whether June's pain is a relief rally setup or the start of a 50% second-half flush.
Schiff's argument lands in a long-running debate over whether stablecoin issuers carry balance-sheet risk analogous to FDIC-insured banks — Dimon says yes, Schiff says no, and US policy is still…
South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 8.4% on Monday, forcing exchange operators to halt trading after an automatic circuit…
Senator Cynthia Lummis announced that the Clarity Act has passed committee, moving the landmark crypto market-structure…
The base case rests on a short-squeeze trigger once Bitcoin stabilises, with a bear floor at $1.00–$1.05 that today's $1.091 intraday low is already probing.
Drafts cover staking, mining, de minimis exemptions, and stablecoin payments — the procedural posture is the signal, with a formal hearing before markup suggesting movement rather than messaging.
The downgrade ties the entire H2 2026 thesis to two binary events: Strategy's $1.7B annual dividend path and a Clarity Act JPMorgan now prices below 50-50.
NYDIG's Greg Cipolaro maps the overlap: capital rotating to AI, a looming mega-IPO cycle, quantum-risk headlines, an Iranian-asset seizure and Strategy's 32 BTC sale all hit at once — none sufficient…
Six of the top 20 crypto adoption markets have now moved against prediction platforms, and Seoul's user-level probe marks the wedge shifting from platform blocking to individual liability.