Fed minutes: hawkish tilt sends BTC lower as rate-hike talk returns
The minutes are the most hawkish read on Fed thinking in months, and they land as markets were pricing a near-certain June cut.
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The minutes are the most hawkish read on Fed thinking in months, and they land as markets were pricing a near-certain June cut.
The alert suggests the monitor overseeing Binance's $4.3B plea deal is over, which would let the exchange stop sharing documents without breaching the agreement.
The proposed Perpetuals.com deal would unwind most of the operating business that bought $750M of WLFI tokens earlier this year, after shares collapsed 90% and the family's token exposure fueled a…
Bitcoin has climbed about 10% in July, but the rebound rests on a bill that has cleared House and Banking Committee yet still has no floor time, no cloture vote, and an ethics fight over Trump's…
The remarks, delivered from the Oval Office, mark a sharp rhetorical escalation and put oil, defense assets, and risk-off positioning back on the front of the trade book.
A sitting CFTC chairman publicly drawing a hard line against a US central bank digital currency is the sharpest policy signal yet that the federal pivot is permanent, not partisan.
Three rulemaking items on the SEC's 2026 agenda compress the timeline for a structured exemptive regime, arriving in parallel with the still-unsigned CLARITY Act and giving token issuers, DeFi…
The push pairs influencer deals, MLB and CNN/CNBC partnerships, and a CFTC-supervised sports app, betting that mainstream visibility can offset a 2020 settlement and a 2024 CEO home raid.
Less than two weeks after MiCA's grace period ended, Brussels is asking whether the framework needs a 2027 revision to absorb tokenized securities and foreign stablecoin issuers that didn't exist…
The Common Supervisory Action gives national regulators a shared template to grade CASPs on operational resilience, putting custody governance, key management, and incident response under coordinated…
A former top-10 CEX backed by Polychain and Hack VC went dark on July 1, the same day on-chain sleuth ZachXBT warned that public wallets had run dry on ETH, USDT and SOL.
The new policy lands on August 1, 2026, and adds real-money prediction markets to a prohibited-products list that also tightens privacy and data-collection rules for every Chrome extension developer.
Three years of U.S. trade-secret litigation ends not on the merits but on a 5.98 million-pound London arbitration award Citadel says it cannot collect.
The signal is policy priority at the highest level, not new funding. Xi tying his agenda directly to AI and semiconductors reframes the next five years of US-China tech competition.
The disconnect is the story: a Hormuz-driven crude spike of more than 5% left BTC pinned inside its weeks-old range, but the calendar between the July 17 OFAC wind-down and the July 28-29 FOMC is…
Bond markets had been pricing disinflation, but a New York Fed survey shows consumers expect 3.7% inflation over the next year, and renewed Middle East strikes just sent oil higher and risk assets…
India's central bank wants to bar regulated lenders from holding or trading any crypto, with privately issued stablecoins singled out as the spillover risk worth choking first.
The first EU-wide custody review since MiCA went live gives supervisors a live look at how asset-references and segregation rules are holding up in practice, before any templates harden into binding…
EIA forecasts electricity consumption climbing to 4,399 billion kWh by 2027, with commercial demand overtaking residential for the first time.
The $350M altcoin liquidation tally and the wipeout of Solana's July rally tell the more painful side of the story, while DXY's inflation-hedge bid is the macro tell every crypto desk is reading.