US Senate Passes Housing Bill With CBDC Ban in 85-5 Vote
An 85-5 floor count signals the CBDC prohibition has the votes to clear the House too, setting up the first binding statutory block on a US central bank digital currency.
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An 85-5 floor count signals the CBDC prohibition has the votes to clear the House too, setting up the first binding statutory block on a US central bank digital currency.
Twin executive orders split the work: DOE gets a flagship quantum machine by decade's end while every federal agency migrates to post-quantum cryptography by 2030.
Two executive orders compel federal high-value assets and high-impact systems to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030 and 2031, putting the US on a clock that private-sector crypto will feel…
Lawmakers warn the proposed ceiling and non-yielding reserve buffer could freeze the UK pound-token market at launch, handing the advantage to dollar and euro stablecoins already anchored in the…
The bill still has to clear the House and the President's desk, but the vote is the clearest signal yet that a retail Fed CBDC is off the table in this Congress.
If the exemption lands, stablecoins, AMMs, and programmable settlement move from crypto-native experiments to US market plumbing, with broker-dealers as the gateway.
The 85–5 vote embeds a CBDC prohibition into an unrelated housing package, foreclosing any U.S. central bank digital dollar at least through 2030 even as Europe and China push ahead with pilots.
Two of the earliest tokenization platforms are heading to federal court in Delaware just as BlackRock, JPMorgan and the NYSE ramp their own onchain builds, with tZERO signalling it has six more firms…
Spot ETFs bleed billions while BlackRock, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and peers push tokenization deeper into equities, cash and ETFs, a split Edelman says is the bigger trade.
The complaint alleges board members sold shares into a market where outside investors were locked up, then personally bought 2.298M Class B shares at $4.97 and signed preferential advisory deals.
The filing turns a private cease-and-desist into a public courtroom fight over who owns the plumbing of on-chain securities, a call that could shape how rivals build out RWA infrastructure.
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Three top industry groups told the House Ways and Means Committee to advance Carey's bill unchanged, framing it as the sector's second legislative priority after the broader market structure fight.
The Foundation's reframing positions MEV as a censorship-resistance battleground, not just an arbitrage problem, while quietly migrating its own balance sheet onto ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.
The joint venture is the first U.S. registered broker-dealer and FCM purpose-built for tokenized securities, with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo co-chairing and ICE and OKX splitting…
The industry wants rewards taxed at sale, not creation, and it is telling House tax writers the bill as written is the version worth moving.
Three hikes in a single year would be a sharp hawkish turn from the current cutting cycle, with crypto, equities, and rate-sensitive sectors repricing for tighter policy through 2026.
Treasury's general license lets existing Iranian crude reach buyers for two months, a stopgap aimed at capping prices without easing the broader sanctions regime.