Senate Banking Committee Sets May 14 Vote on Crypto Clarity Act
A committee vote is procedural, not passage — but the bipartisan compromise from Tillis and Alsobrooks is the first real signal that stablecoin-yield language can survive a floor fight.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
A committee vote is procedural, not passage — but the bipartisan compromise from Tillis and Alsobrooks is the first real signal that stablecoin-yield language can survive a floor fight.
The May 14 markup on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is the first real test of whether a comprehensive market-structure framework can clear committee this session.
The rescheduled markup is the procedural gate — a yes vote advances the bill to the Senate floor, but ethics rules could trip the next stage even if the committee clears it.
President Donald Trump announced that 115,000 Americans found employment in April, using the figure to argue that the…
In a May 1 interview with Peter McCormack, the Strategy founder framed Bitcoin as crisis-grade infrastructure for moving economic energy — not a replacement for banks, but a parallel rail no…
Initial claims and layoff data aren't screaming recession yet, but a flat unemployment rate masks a softer hiring backdrop — and summer has historically been when claims start to climb.
Reiners' argument collides with the most uncomfortable fact in crypto enforcement right now: the SEC's own chairman was nominated by the issuer's largest beneficiary.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both registered their highest daily and weekly closing prices in history, marking a…
The real story isn't the bounce — it's the rotation. With $BTC pinned above $80K and Atkins floating onchain rules, capital is spreading from majors into infrastructure and tokenization plays.
Daily realised profits hit a five-month peak and short-term holders are back in the green — but the scale is still a fraction of what past bull transitions printed, keeping the correction-risk read…
A compromise between Sens. Alsobrooks and Tillis on stablecoin rewards has industry odds of a comprehensive crypto bill climbing to roughly 60% — but ethics provisions tied to Trump's crypto ventures…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins publicly called on Congress to pass crypto market structure legislation and deliver the Clarity…
Beyond the $101M already lost in four months, the structural shift is data-driven targeting and proxy pressure — Europe's clustering, France's outsized share, and the Telegram-recruited ground crews…
The chair wants notice-and-comment rulemaking — not enforcement — to fit a single protocol that executes trades, manages collateral and settles at once, signaling the clearest break yet from…
Payward becomes the third major crypto venue in two months to seek a federal trust license after Coinbase and Ripple — a sequence that quietly rewires how institutional crypto custody is regulated in…
The ECB chief frames the choice as sovereignty vs. private risk: 90% of the $310B stablecoin market sits with Tether and Circle, and Europe would rather anchor tokenisation to central bank money than…
The April print is down from $986B in March and sits 63% below the December 2024 peak — a prolonged low-volatility regime is starving centralized venues of the retail flow that built the last cycle.
The new framework recognises that a single protocol can clear, route, and settle in one motion — a hybrid DeFi/TradFi structure legacy exchange and broker definitions were never built to fit.
Kraken's parent company Payward has filed an application for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller…
A stablecoin-yield breakthrough cleared the substantive policy lane, but the new Tillis-Alsobrooks language still has to survive a committee vote where Trump-linked crypto ethics — not the policy…