Consensus Miami 2025 Kicks Off: Lawmakers, DOJ on Crypto Policy
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.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
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.
A dense morning across markets — Western Union's USDP stablecoin goes live on Solana, Tom Lee's Bitmine adds a nine-figure ETH position, and the CLARITY Act clears a key stablecoin-yield hurdle as…
The counter-suit, filed in Florida, claims the TRON founder secretly shorted $WLFI while publicly promoting it — the latest escalation in a two-way legal fight between the Trump-family project and…
The accusation from one of crypto's most-watched on-chain investigators puts a top DEX by volume in the crosshairs — and signals a wider enforcement net may be forming.
Tokyo's listing review and Moscow's first dedicated crypto tax code land the same week, while Colombia's largest pension fund opens a Bitcoin book via BlackRock's IBIT.
The bipartisan duo is closing the door on further bank-lobby rewrites of the yield language — but the fight moves to the House, where banking pressure on the compromise is far from over.
The fight is over whether stablecoin holders can earn a yield — the industry's working product, and the banks' clearest competitive threat.
Prediction markets are now pricing a 64% probability that President Trump signs comprehensive crypto market structure…
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture linked to the Trump family, has filed a defamation lawsuit against TRON…
Senate Banking Committee member Tim Scott publicly stated that Congress is making 'real progress' on crypto market…
The deal lets issuers pay rewards tied to actual platform activity while shutting off passive yield on idle balances — a structure Coinbase publicly endorsed, narrowing one of the bill's…
Senator Cynthia Lummis has called for the immediate passage of the Clarity Act, cautioning that the absence of clear…
The legal theory is binary: either the recovered ether belongs to Aave's users, or it belongs to North Korea — and Aave argues attribution to Lazarus Group is unproven, with $327M in industry…
A social post turned into a payment instruction: obfuscated text passed through Grok into Bankrbot, which executed a token transfer from an X-issued agent wallet — exposing how model output can…
A usage-based rewards carve-out resolves the longest-running dispute between banks and crypto firms over stablecoins — and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong publicly backing it signals the industry is…