Stripe bids $53B for PayPal to merge crypto rails
Beyond the $53B price tag, a Stripe-PayPal merger would consolidate merchant rails, 440M consumer wallets, and three competing stablecoin stacks under one roof, with antitrust and the new US…
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Beyond the $53B price tag, a Stripe-PayPal merger would consolidate merchant rails, 440M consumer wallets, and three competing stablecoin stacks under one roof, with antitrust and the new US…
Even if no law is broken, the optics of a sitting president with active equity positions endorsing those same names on a public platform raise conflict-of-interest and market-manipulation questions…
The X-leaked number was a unit conversion error, not a flow signal. DTCC plumbing entries list fund structures but carry no allocation data, and the SEC S-1 queue is still where the real launch dates…
Yuliya Barabash of SBSB Fintech argues the EU's flagship crypto regime is credibility-positive but filters out early-stage firms before they prove their model, and the balance may be off.
Four years after FTX, the bill would force U.S. crypto exchanges, brokers, dealers and custodians to register under federal rules covering custody, segregation and disclosure.
The eight-shell structure and bank-to-exchange routing alleged in Wiener’s indictment match the textbook signaling pattern federal prosecutors have been flagging in crypto fraud cases since 2023.
Chainalysis puts AI-assisted scam revenue at 4.5x non-AI operations; the FBI logged $20.9B in 2025 cybercrime losses with crypto the top payment rail.
The launch comes via Bybit's majority stake in PT Enkripsi Teknologi Handal (formerly NOBI), giving the Dubai-based exchange a regulated onshore foothold in Southeast Asia's largest crypto market.
CNN's review of post-purchase Truth Social activity raises the canonical insider-trading question the Constitution leaves unresolved: how much of the presidency's market-moving voice is the same…
The comment lands as BTC trades sideways and US CPI data remains the next macro catalyst the market is positioning around.
A direct military strike on three US-hosted bases pulls geopolitical risk back to the front of the macro tape, and Bitcoin is reacting like a risk asset in the first hours.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, AWS and Cloudflare all in the premier tier, with Coinbase handing stewardship to a neutral foundation built around the dormant HTTP 402 code.
South Korea is one of the world's most active retail crypto markets, so a pivot from easing to tightening hits local risk appetite just as global liquidity starts to thin.
The headline is the Fed drawing a line; the detail is Warsh declining to rule out support if a stablecoin or crypto run actually materialises.
The freeze ties up only a slice of the $475M Tether has now blocked from the Central Bank of Iran, but it hands every venue a ready-made address list to screen against.
A unanimous Senate resolution signals bipartisan resolve to keep the FTX founder's 25-year sentence intact, closing off a presidential pardon before any future appeal.
The House Financial Services field hearing on July 17 will be the first legislative read on the CLARITY Act, a bill that could finally split SEC and CFTC authority over digital assets.
Lummis is pushing to move the digital asset market structure bill straight to the President's desk, but ethics provisions targeting presidential crypto holdings have put the brakes on floor time.
The bipartisan nonbinding resolution signals that even the chamber's most pro-crypto voices are drawing a hard line at the $8B fraud, and reframes who counts as a clemency candidate after Trump…
The framework puts one of East Africa's larger economies on the path to a formal rulebook for digital assets, where most activity today runs in regulatory grey zones.