Bitcoin Drops Below $64K as Resilient Jobs Data Fuels Fed Caution
Strong labor data is tightening every channel crypto needs loose — and Warsh's hawkish first FOMC just put the rate-cut trade on ice through year-end.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
Strong labor data is tightening every channel crypto needs loose — and Warsh's hawkish first FOMC just put the rate-cut trade on ice through year-end.
Japan's carry-trade unwind was fully priced, the BOJ softened it with a bond-buying commitment, and Bitcoin held near $66K.
Roughly a fifth of global oil flows through the 33-km chokepoint — any sustained closure pushes crude and risk assets sharply higher on supply fears.
Governor Abbott's June 10 directive to ERCOT and the PUC flips the state's decade-long incentive model and could become the regulatory template for every other state chasing AI capacity.
Roughly a fifth of the world's oil transits the strait — even a credible threat of closure pushes crude and risk assets sharply, and any sustained closure would hit global energy supply chains and…
The cash cap is the easy headline — the crypto-asset service provider KYC overhaul, anonymity-coin restrictions, and expanded beneficial ownership transparency reshape how EU-based venues onboard…
Selig's Bankless remarks signal Washington may rewrite decades-old exchange rules to let 24/7 on-chain derivatives venues register in the US — if investor protections and disclosures are met.
Fed's first GENIUS Act rulemaking lands mid-countdown — issuer identification program drops the same week the market-structure bill needs floor time to clear the Senate before recess.
Chief Counsel Taylor Lindman — a former Chainlink lawyer now inside the SEC's Crypto Task Force — frames tokenized stocks, DeFi protocols, and AI agents as the live edges of the agency's next rule…
A weekly round-up finds miners still underwater, Ethereum pushing Glamsterdam on devnets, and Europe's MiCA transition closing on July 1 — three timelines colliding on policy, code, and capital.
The novel wrapper targets institutional allocators who want equity beta with a passive BTC accumulation engine — and it lands as Franklin's spot BTC ETF already holds $359M in assets.
Brent settled near $79.85 and tankers cleared the Strait for the first time in weeks, but a dot plot showing 9 of 18 Fed officials now expect a rate hike pushed DXY to a one-year high and drove BTC…
A national pool mandating every licensed miner to connect is the structural tell — Oman isn't just hosting hashrate, it's running it through a single regulator-visible chokepoint.
The tighter signal than the headline targets is the bear case itself — Meta's downside stops at $0.70–$1.00, a stagnation band sitting well below where XRP has actually traded for five months.
The per-transaction levy lands on exchanges, wallet-to-wallet moves, and custody — a structural drag on retail activity in a state that already ranks among the larger US crypto markets.
The 95/5 structure turns dividend payouts into a steady, automatic bid for spot Bitcoin — a regulated wrapper that institutional allocators can buy without ever touching crypto directly.
The second co-departure in four months lands while a former core developer warns the foundation could run out of funds within nine — the governance and treasury signal both hit at once.
Just 194 of 3,000+ crypto firms have EU licenses as July 1 hits — Binance faces a Greek rejection, Tether's USDT retreats from licensed venues, and the ECB's digital euro timeline quietly benefits.
The House passed the most consequential US crypto market-structure bill in July 2025; eighteen months later it sits on the Senate calendar with no vote date, caught between banking-industry deposit…
The $80 billion supplemental request would sit on top of the FY2026 base budget, and a no-pass scenario forces the Pentagon into fresh stopgap funding — the third continuing-resolution cycle in two…