Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
A Stripe-owned payments executive argues the $260B+ USDT-USDC concentration is a structural drag on the sector — both issuers keep raising burn fees and neither fits every payments use case.
Patrick Witt told Consensus Miami the administration has four working Senate weeks to move a market-structure bill that's been waiting on a stablecoin-yield deal now described as closed.
A single trading session added $1 trillion to US equity market capitalisation, marking one of the more dramatic…
The bill legalizes Bitcoin and Ethereum for cross-border settlements across an estimated $240B in trade volume — and the real story is the OFAC response window it opens.
The product ships across BNB Chain, Solana, Base and Ethereum on day one, with whitelisted addresses, spending caps and a monitoring dashboard — framing it as infrastructure, not a trading toy.
The White House confirmed via Reuters that the president will address the top 297 TRUMP token holders — a speech now framed as a genuine market catalyst, with lawmakers flagging it as a potential…
Two-plus years of operational data from SBI Holdings — not a pilot deck — reframes the SWIFT replacement debate, with a Bank of Japan lending program now extending the corridor to institutional desks.
The Karakalpakstan special zone drops corporate, property, and land taxes for a decade — but the 1% mining-income fee and mandatory bank-routing rule keep the government plugged into every flow.
The setting — a $TRUMP-holder summit with Tether's Ardoino and Mike Tyson — doubles as a campaign ad and a policy signal: the White House is publicly picking crypto over banks on stablecoin rewards.
Nikil Viswanathan frames the pitch as structural: agents don't sleep, don't carry cards, and transact natively in code — so the friction in TradFi is a bottleneck, not a feature, for the next…
The closed-door, top-297 $TRUMP-holder format repeats a dinner that already drew ethics complaints — but the lineup now pulls in Tether, Anchorage and Ark Invest, putting a real institutional edge on…
MiCA collapsed a patchwork of national rules into a single passportable framework — and BBVA, DZ Bank, Société Générale and KBC are the proof points that the architectural question is already…
Roughly $48M in payment volume has already moved through x402, with about 95% of it landing on Base — early but directional evidence that agentic commerce is becoming a real flow, not a slideware…
The probe's closure lifts the Tillis hold that had blocked Kevin Warsh's confirmation — and Kalshi's Warsh-confirmation odds jumped from ~30% to 80%+ on the news, signaling traders see a near-term…
The thesis matters because a Fed chair publicly framing AI as a deflationary productivity shock is the strongest dovish setup for the rate-cut path markets have had in months.
Circle, Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple and Chainlink signed a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee as the bill's timeline slips from April into May, warning that another stall would unwind a year…
Binance alone cleared $1.09T in 2026 volume — and the BIS says the platforms with the deepest books are exactly the ones behaving like unregulated banks, with no capital buffers, no deposit…
The resilience is the real signal: a 17% weekly WTI spike and a firmer dollar failed to push BTC off the level, while a $1.19B short squeeze did most of the lifting above $79K.
Brazilian Finance Minister Dario Durigan announced a sweeping ban on 28 betting platforms operating in the country…
JPMorgan expects tokenization to become embedded in the ETF ecosystem, but the bank is tempering expectations on timing…
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