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First VASP cleared to settle Dubai government fees in dirhams or dirham-backed stablecoins — and the license slots straight into the emirate's 90% digital-payments target by 2026.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
First VASP cleared to settle Dubai government fees in dirhams or dirham-backed stablecoins — and the license slots straight into the emirate's 90% digital-payments target by 2026.
SkyBridge's founder says bank lobbying and political gridlock could push statutory digital-asset rules out three years, keeping every token below $BTC in legal classification limbo.
Crude oil prices jumped more than 3.5% after both the United States and Iran rejected proposals aimed at ending their…
The markup is the procedural bottleneck that's held the bill since the House passed it in 2025; a committee vote Thursday sets up a Senate floor vote, a conference committee, and Trump has pushed for…
The timeline is tight — Senate Banking markup this month, four-week chamber merge, House reconciliation — but Patrick Witt floated it at Consensus Miami alongside a CoinDesk voter poll showing crypto…
The first federal rules for stablecoins are now law, and the president is already promising the market-structure bill is next — a one-two punch the US crypto industry has waited nearly a decade for.
The week's Asia wrap packs a tax-policy date, two new index families, a 24/7 blockchain bond pilot, Bithumb's Vietnam push, and BNY's Abu Dhabi custody expansion into one roundup.
Strategy CEO Phong Le has acknowledged that the company could sell its Bitcoin holdings under specific, undisclosed…
Mike Belshe calls the 2030 warning a marketing pitch, but Project Eleven's real point — that Bitcoin's bottleneck is coordination, not cryptography — is harder to dismiss.
The Telegram founder's broadside lands a year after his own arrest in Paris and flips the script: France's regulator, he argues, is doing in the open what it prosecutes others for.
The BitMEX founder frames the 2024 pro-crypto shift not as ideology but as a direct response to frozen accounts and lawsuits — and argues that without exit optionality, Bitcoin is just another…
The Bank of England governor is chair of the Financial Stability Board — so a transatlantic clash on stablecoin standards would land inside the body that writes the rulebook most of the world copies.
Senator Cynthia Lummis, the most prominent pro-crypto voice in the US Senate, has declared that the United States "will…
Top executives across the oil and gas industry are sounding the alarm: a war with Iran stands to trigger structural…
Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of Congress's most vocal crypto advocates, declared that the United States will "lead the…
A $2T asset class still routed through state-licensed casinos is the framing Novig's CEO used to argue sports event contracts belong under federal CFTC oversight — a fight he expects to reach the…
Two stablecoin tracks running in parallel: Ottawa is taking a year to formalize oversight while Visa scales cross-chain settlement to nine networks — the regulatory and the infrastructural clocks are…
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 gets its second wind after a January delay — the markup puts the bill on track for the White House's July 4 passage target, with industry backing a…
The initiative dies procedurally — campaigners collected half the 100,000 signatures needed — but the SNB's prior liquidity and volatility objections leave the door closed on substance too.
The Tillis-Alsobrooks language is what unblocked the markup — it answers the question of who regulates stablecoin issuers, and the banking lobby's scramble suggests they didn't like the answer.