Clarity Act Could Lose Senate Vote as Bessent Warns
The legislative vacuum resets the federal crypto clarity timeline to the next Congress, leaving tokenization, stablecoins, and exchange custody in patchwork limbo just as Wall Street adoption…
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The legislative vacuum resets the federal crypto clarity timeline to the next Congress, leaving tokenization, stablecoins, and exchange custody in patchwork limbo just as Wall Street adoption…
A $245M laundering case against a 22-year-old says more about the threat model large Bitcoin holders still face than about any single bad actor: people, not protocols, remain the vulnerability.
The spending trail links the digital theft to property, vehicles and private aviation, giving the $245M case a clear offline footprint.
Bessent is the most senior Trump-era Treasury head yet to publicly back the bill, lending executive-branch weight to a market structure measure the industry has called essential for institutional…
The planned models would expand blockchain-based access while highlighting a critical divide between owning shares and holding stock-linked tokens with fewer rights.
Financial conditions would stay tight, raising the policy hurdle for risk assets and making the Fed's guidance as important as the hike itself.
A former US Solicitor General is now arguing that letting incumbents sue regulators over every new product would freeze US derivatives innovation and protect the legacy order.
The freeze shows Tether's enforcement reach, but Xinbi's migration to USDD, a decentralized stablecoin that resists address-level blacklisting, is the real test for the next enforcement cycle.
The buyback is routine, but the tenor choice is the read: Treasury leaning against a long-end move that has been pushing mortgage rates and risk-asset discount rates higher for months.
The sanctions are the latest in a widening Treasury crackdown alongside the DOJ Scam Center Strike Force, hitting both the marketplace and the wallet and messaging infrastructure that lets Southeast…
The fight hinges on constitutional equal-protection claims plus a federal ban on discriminatory e-commerce taxes, putting Illinois in the crosshairs as the test case every state eyeing crypto revenue…
The fight is now the structural test for the entire tokenized-equities sector: do issuers like AMC have veto power over third-party products that reference their shares?
Scrapping the 12-month tax-free sale removes a structural tailwind for Europe's deepest retail crypto market.
A 25% rate would make after-tax returns, holding periods and exit timing central to German retail investment decisions ahead of the 2027 start date.
The 4,100 BTC taken by impersonating Google and Gemini staff is one of the largest crypto thefts ever prosecuted on US soil, and the guilty plea resets the bar for social-engineering risk.
The token's structure, with founders retaining 30% of supply and a burn mechanism tied to the 2028 election outcome, has drawn sharp criticism from investors who lost money on $TRUMP.
The disclosure puts a concrete dollar figure on the financial ties between Trump's inner circle and the crypto venture, raising fresh questions about conflicts of interest in ongoing diplomatic work.
The resignation adds a named insider voice to a growing chorus warning that the competitive pressure to ship faster is overriding safety culture at the labs building the most powerful AI systems.
The $10B in 2025 Iran-linked crypto volume, with USDT leading, shows how fully dollar-alternative rails have scaled into sanctioned-economy commerce.
The Binance founder's market-cap-weighted framework reframes the diversification debate: it's not a hedge against Bitcoin, but a bet that a multi-chain ecosystem grows the reserve's total value…