US Debt Market Cracks: Bitcoin Drops Below $80K as Yields Surge
Treasury debt crossed $30T, the 10-year won't break 4.3%, and leveraged basis-trade exposure above $1T has Fed Governor Cook flagging the setup as a systemic vulnerability.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Treasury debt crossed $30T, the 10-year won't break 4.3%, and leveraged basis-trade exposure above $1T has Fed Governor Cook flagging the setup as a systemic vulnerability.
Another 2026 bridge exploit — but this one isn't a smart-contract bug. Researchers say the attacker walked in through the authorization layer, the same weak seam hit in Kelp DAO and Resolv earlier…
Bloomberg pegs Trump's family crypto windfall at $1.4B since inauguration; with 60 Senate votes needed, ethics-provision Democrats now hold the bill hostage — and TD Cowen just cut Clarity's 2026…
Only about 3% of investor money ever touched crypto, roughly $6.2M went to a home, gambling and travel, and an AI-generated auditor letter was used to stall withdrawals — the anatomy of a textbook…
The European Union is moving toward a unified tax framework covering both cryptocurrency and gambling activities, with…
Treasury seized the wallets but the structural story is bigger: Iran had been moving hundreds of millions a month through crypto, and Bessent is now tying the seizure to 200%+ inflation and unpaid…
Senator Cynthia Lummis issued a pointed warning this week: if the United States fails to lead on digital asset…
The case is small in dollars but lands inside a long-running US labor-law push to make retaliation claims expensive to defend — even when the underlying dispute is trivial.
CertiK says April was the worst month for DeFi exploits in four years — and the AI-accelerated cadence, not the dollar figure, is the part that has trillions in TradFi capital waiting on the…
Gravity Bridge, the cross-chain protocol connecting Cosmos-based networks to Ethereum, was drained of $5.4 million…
A court-ordered freeze has trapped $12.6 million in USDC held inside a Zama cUSDC smart contract, following legal…
The critique from one of crypto's most cited VCs lands on decentralization, not throughput — and on a partnership appetite that excludes any legitimate U.S. counterparty.
If the contract address belongs to a privacy protocol's confidential USDC wrapper, an OFAC-style freeze without notice becomes a precedent that every composable stablecoin issuer now has to price…
Circle has frozen a smart contract belonging to Zama protocol, locking $12.6 million in user funds and reigniting a…
Powell can cut the federal funds rate all he wants — long-term yields are being set by $37.6T of debt and $30.2T in annual Treasury issuance, not by the FOMC, and the 10-year barely budged through…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has publicly pledged that the banking industry will push back against the CLARITY Act, the…
Without action, developers stay exposed and law enforcement stays unarmed through 2030 — the CLARITY Act is pitched as the fix for both.
Harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks on interbank authentication could trigger a $2T–$3.3T GDP cascade per Citi, yet Bitcoin and major custodians have no public post-quantum migration plan.
JPMorgan's CEO is threatening a Washington war over the market-structure bill while BTC tests the $67K volume shelf — the bill's Senate floor vote is the real catalyst, regardless of who is lobbying…
The dollar figure sets a new floor for what US enforcement treats as a recoverable crime scene — and the simultaneous raid on scam compounds across four countries signals how crypto rails are…