CLARITY Act stalls as ethics fight strips Democratic support
The structural market bill needs 60 Senate votes and now has none from Democrats after a last-minute ethics rewrite. Two July windows remain before midterm recess pulls it off the floor.
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The structural market bill needs 60 Senate votes and now has none from Democrats after a last-minute ethics rewrite. Two July windows remain before midterm recess pulls it off the floor.
Adding Ripple Payments Europe and 13 others pushes the EU's licensed crypto-asset service providers to 294, the clearest signal yet that MiCA is becoming the operational baseline for institutional…
The 22-year sentence and 1,500-victim count underscore how aggressively Taiwanese courts are pursuing domestic crypto fraud cases tied to local exchange brands.
Ripple's CLO is pressing lawmakers directly, framing a no-vote as a vote to preserve the regulatory gaps the industry has blamed for years of enforcement whiplash.
The takedown highlights how fake-authority impersonation remains a profitable retail fraud vector, and gives UK law enforcement a fresh courtroom template for crypto-native cases.
Risk assets sold off across Asia, with the Nikkei off nearly 3% and the Aussie dollar weakening as geopolitical shockwaves hit both crypto and traditional markets simultaneously.
The jurisdictional split that has defined US crypto oversight for a decade is up for renegotiation, and the choice between securities and commodities frameworks will decide which products clear and…
The alleged 2020-era breach dwarfs prior state-actor election incidents and lands days before a US-China leader call, raising fresh questions over data-resilience and retaliation posture.
Bipartisan market-structure legislation is rolling out without the other side of the bipartisan coalition, and that is the actual story, not the bill text.
The all-stock-plus-cash structure is the visible hurdle, but the bigger signal is that PayPal's directors still see the company's standalone value above what two of fintech's heaviest buyers are…
The bill has White House momentum but no bipartisan path: Senate Democrats are publicly withholding support, putting the market-structure legislation in a holding pattern on Capitol Hill.
The WSJ scoop frames a paid priority-access tier as a niche product for a specific audience, but it crystallises how closely Trump's social posts now move retail trading books.
Five catalysts stack into the second half of 2026: post-halving expansion, Fed cuts, CLARITY, fresh use cases, and institutional adoption, while Polymarket prices the legislation at just 42% odds.
The 2028 effective date keeps the headline rate from being retroactive, but the reclassification itself gives XRP and other tokens the legal status institutional desks need to underwrite Japan…
A closed-door Thursday meeting with Trump, Lummis, Moreno and the White House crypto team is the last real chance to clear the stablecoin bill before ethics language sinks it.
The $1.9 trillion manager's TKNZ actively rotates across BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL and Hyperliquid, marking the biggest TradFi push yet past single-token exposure.
A direct White House push on the bill that would split SEC and CFTC oversight of digital assets marks the most significant White House engagement on market-structure legislation to date.
The President's sit-down with Senate Republicans failed to break the impasse: the bill's still-stuck definitions of digital asset securities keep it parked in committee past the 2025 window.
The rule would let firms default investors into digital delivery of prospectuses and proxy materials, cutting print costs but reviving the long-running fight over informed consent.
The case tests the CFTC's authority over prediction-market insider trading as political-event contracts draw billions in volume and a celebrity-adjacent defendant.