Banking Lobby Moves to Gut Clarity Act Stablecoin Rules
A coalition of five major bank trade groups is rejecting the Tillis-Alsobrooks yield compromise on stablecoin rewards, warning it could drain 20% of deposit funding.
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A coalition of five major bank trade groups is rejecting the Tillis-Alsobrooks yield compromise on stablecoin rewards, warning it could drain 20% of deposit funding.
ICE, OKX and Securitize used Consensus Miami to draw a line between regulated tokenized equities and offshore wrappers that borrow company names without owning the shares — a contrast that frames…
Consumer protections, illicit-finance safeguards, and ethics provisions for officials are the remaining three issues in the bill's market-structure negotiations, per the senator.
Ondo, Robinhood's Bitstamp and Babylon Labs told Consensus Miami 2026 that the institutional crypto conversation has flipped from exploration to execution — though adoption still splits along…
A MiFID II book is the price of admission to EU bank balance sheets — and Taurus now joins OKX, Gemini and Kraken on the list, with MiCA and a deep bank client roster already in tow.
The reframing aims to give attackers legal title to the frozen ether under a 19th-century fraud doctrine — the move that lets victims reach the funds at all, before a May 6 Manhattan hearing.
The fragmentation problem is the same one blockchain was supposed to solve — and large corporate clients running thousands of bank accounts are the ones who feel it first.
Senator Cynthia Lummis drew a sharp line on crypto legislation this week, stating that the Clarity Act is not a…
The Nevada Democrat is selling incremental tax reform as the realistic path now that the Senate's CLARITY market-structure talks are stalled — and his draft already reads like a wish list for retail…
Garlinghouse framed the next fortnight as the window for a Senate Banking markup — and warned that without a statute, the next SEC chair could unwind Atkins-era crypto policy overnight.
The collaboration pairs a top crypto market-maker with a regulated tokenization stack — a credible path for Wall Street to settle real equity exposure onchain without re-engineering compliance.
The BitMEX co-founder's Consensus Miami thesis is that bitcoin's rise from zero to trillions tracks money printing across U.S. administrations — and that bills like the CLARITY Act miss the point.
The American Innovation Project is placing a bitcoin-mining and DeFi-policy veteran inside Ritchie Torres' office — part of a coordinated industry push to seed Hill staff with digital-asset expertise…
DSJ Exchange / BG Wealth Sharing drew over $150M before going offline; $41.5M has already been frozen after cooperation between Tether, Binance, OKX and U.S. law enforcement.
Day one pairs macro, regulation, and TradFi-onchain themes in a single tent: DOJ enforcement, a tax-reform bill, and a CFTC chair publicly outlining his agency's crypto remit.
The motion tests whether governance-frozen recovery assets become attachable property the moment a sanctioned-state attribution is alleged — a precedent every DeFi protocol with emergency powers…
The stablecoin-yield standoff is over, but the markup now depends on Sen. John Kennedy's leverage over a housing package — and on software-developer language that could reopen the entire fight.
Trump's pledge to sign the Clarity Act the moment it lands on his desk collapses the political risk premium — and the stablecoin-yield carveout is the structural piece Wall Street was waiting for.
The fight is over 30,765 ETH frozen after the April rsETH exploit on Arbitrum, and a ruling against Aave could let decades-old North Korea judgments reach any future recovered hack funds.
April's Drift and Kelp breaches cost more than half a billion dollars combined, with no smart-contract bug — just months of social engineering that walked past every system built to flag a hack.