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The charter pulls $73.2B in USDC reserves one regulator closer to OCC supervision, and it lands inside a wave of crypto firms, from Kraken to BitGo, racing for federal banking licences.
Finance Minister Katayama's push to steer GPIF into domestic bonds hands holders negative real yields, the textbook setup that Russell Napier says drives capital into hard assets like bitcoin and…
First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. is the inaugural national trust charter scoped to a stablecoin issuer, giving USDC a federally supervised fiduciary home before the stablecoin regime goes…
Zschach's dismissal came hours after Ripple Treasury joined SWIFT's certified program, but the brief exchange isn't a SWIFT endorsement of XRP.
The OCC charter lets Circle sit alongside the regulated US banks holding digital assets in custody, formalising the legitimacy that issuers have spent the last three years arguing USDC already has.
The IEA's 2026 demand decline forecast, its first outside the pandemic shock, lands as Middle East supply disruptions and a structural EV shift pull consumption in opposite directions.
The July 9 letter asks the CFTC to turn Phantom's March no-action relief into a broader, codified rule so any wallet can plug into registered derivatives venues without becoming a broker.
The denial itself is the story, but the months of clipped context that made the rumor believable, and the real governance frictions behind it, sit underneath it.
CleanSpark-backed plan would have let the state issue debt against bitcoin holdings. The rejection, after the House and Senate had already approved a framework, resets the US state-level adoption…
Built in nine months and live across the largest bank consortium on the planet, SWIFT's crypto ledger turns cross-border tokenized settlement from pilot theater into production rails overnight.
The threat is not a $4.7T headline but a structural one: if tokenized deposits and securities settle inside bank-controlled ledgers, the volume that once fed public chains never arrives, leaving…
The team ran core developer calls, EIP coordination, and the Protocol Fellowship. Its dissolution is part of a wider shake-up at the foundation, not a one-off layoff.
A derivatives license would let Polymarket's U.S. arm offer leveraged bets on events for the first time since a 2022 CFTC settlement, putting it on a regulatory footing with Kalshi.
The judge who set the XRP precedent is now drawing a line on prediction-market expansion, signalling that state gambling statutes still apply where federal CFTC oversight stops.
The complaint targets a federal inmate accused of siphoning forfeited digital assets through exchanges and mixing services, layering a theft case on top of an existing sentence.
A market-structure bill that splits regulator jurisdiction over digital assets could land in the House as soon as next week, pulling regulatory clarity back to the front of the crypto agenda.
The plaintiffs ask courts to declare long-dormant Bitcoin abandoned, but the wallets that actually transacted while the case was pending expose the limits of an 'inactivity equals abandonment' theory…
The amendment targets political parties and candidates, framing crypto donations as unfit for the UK funding system rather than just unregulated.
A 6% tax on net fee revenue resolves the state's standoff with federal derivatives oversight, but leaves other states still contesting where prediction-market jurisdiction actually sits.
The breakout on a late-session volume spike matters more than the 2% gain: a hold above $1.10 keeps the structure intact, while a slip back under $1.0880 turns it into another failed range break.
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