Bitcoin Rallies 24% Toward Best August Since 2017
Oil above $90 and a hawkish Fed have failed to erase the gain, but subdued spot volume leaves the rebound short of full confirmation.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Oil above $90 and a hawkish Fed have failed to erase the gain, but subdued spot volume leaves the rebound short of full confirmation.
First major state-controlled lender to put ether and a foreign stablecoin on the collateral menu, but USDT's freeze authority makes the legal optics as newsworthy as the lending economics.
The request targets reporting friction, a practical test for whether Japan’s regulated stablecoin framework can support broader use in payments and finance.
The registration hands Goldeneye 1995 a market exit without a single primary dollar flowing to USBC, while a separate 478 BTC pledge to Payward and an unreconciled options pool leave most of the…
Friday's August payrolls print lands after July's -23K shock and 103K of combined revisions, while Russia's first large-scale CBDC phase kicks off the same morning the ruble stablecoin consultation…
Analysts including Jim Bianco and Robin Brooks argue a 58% read is a lean, not a lock, and any September move would likely be performative tightening aimed at capping 10-year yields rather than…
The $94.66M award itself is the bigger signal: ICE is betting that AI-driven blockchain forensics is now core Homeland Security infrastructure, with only two credible vendors at the scale it needs.
Kalshi's exclusivity blocks rival prediction markets from advertising at the venue and across ESPN broadcasts, an unusual concession that lands amid the platform's federal preemption fight.
BTC's 23% August rally shrugged off this week's Strait of Hormuz escalation. The next test lands Sept.
The strike puts the Strait of Hormuz back at the center of markets, where higher crude prices can pressure inflation and complicate the rate outlook for risk assets including crypto.
The plan would test whether Russia's new framework can move BTC, ETH and USDT from trading venues into bank credit.
The comparison turns one billionaire's fortune into a measure of wealth concentration, putting inequality, taxation and private economic power in focus.
Reserve rules, issuer practice and BIS evidence align around a measurable short-term funding channel, not automatic demand for 10- to 30-year bonds.
The IMF's view gives stablecoins a broader financial-infrastructure case, but adoption will still be judged on safeguards and macro stability.
Even with a $65K penalty and 3-year ban, the case makes prediction-market insider trading an active CFTC enforcement priority, and exchanges that flag trades get publicly credited for cooperation.
The proposal names no specific token, but shifts the compliance burden onto US exchanges. Fail the diligence bar, and stablecoins like USDT risk losing access to US customers by July 2028.
Treasury's bond buybacks ease a few old issues, but $739B of new issuance drains reserves first. Bitcoin waits at the back of that pipeline while the TGA rebuilds toward $1.05T by late October.
A grand jury subpoena reframes a filing correction as a stress test for the entire life-insurer private-credit model, where prices, ratings and counterparties all run through affiliates.
The denial leaves the party behind the activity unidentified and puts provenance at the center of risk around Trump-branded meme coins.
Two prediction-market insider settlements in two months, both generated by Kalshi referrals, and the second lands the same week the Ninth Circuit knocked Kalshi back in its Nevada preemption fight.