US Department of War Seeks $80B for Iran War Costs
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…
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
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…
The setup the consensus is ignoring — Grayscale's framing of the Clarity Act, Morgan Stanley's spot ETH and SOL ETF amendments, and a macro stack (PMI, copper/gold, Russell 2000) quietly aligning the…
The fee beats Grayscale's 0.15% Mini ETH Trust and Franklin Templeton's 0.19% SOEZ, and the staking-enabled structure — with Figment, Galaxy, and Coinbase Canada as providers — mirrors the playbook…
ERCOT's new "Batch Zero" process tackles a 438,000 MW connection queue — and a handful of Texas-campused miners are already positioned to absorb the wave, with stock moves and signed hyperscaler…
A $300M-valuation startup pitching joint CFTC-SEC oversight for single-name equity perps arrives just as the agencies are harmonizing their rules and CME is suing over the very approvals that would…
The Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act targets Kalshi and Polymarket-style political bets, with fines near $2,000 or 10% of the wager — but a Senate companion and a DOJ arrest signal the fight is…
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The hawkish dot plot grabbed the headlines; the substance was two quiet signals — AI productivity as a disinflation force and a trimmed-mean inflation rebuild — that point to a structurally looser…
The AI forecast hinges on whether the CLARITY Act flips XRP's legal status into a digital commodity within weeks, lifting the ceiling on sovereign and pension allocations — or whether a hawkish Fed…
The shorter statement, absent dot-plot additions, and a rising 2-year yield together tell the real story: the Fed isn't telegraphing cuts anymore, and the bond market is already doing the Fed's job…
The unanimous hold masked a hawkish dot-plot: nearly half the FOMC now sees a hike as possible before year-end, just as a US-Iran deal pulls oil back toward $76 and pulls CPI expectations with it.
The 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act takes effect January 2027 and targets crypto brokers in a way no other state taxes stocks or bonds — industry lawyers say it will trigger geoblocking and capital flight.
The discount to par is the lead, not the dollar number: STRC was built to trade near $100, and the gap signals the market wants a richer payout before Saylor's preferred-stock funding channel reopens.
The state sidesteps the federal capital-gains framework entirely — a per-transaction levy that hits rebalances, wallet moves, and DeFi swaps the same way it hits a profitable sale.
Nine of eighteen FOMC projections now point to a year-end hike — the sharpest regime flip since the post-cut consensus, and a stance change that put the committee's median dot on a tightening path…
The industry's $150M cash pile is reshaping the next Senate faster than it can deliver the market-structure bill that cash is supposed to buy.
Brent already gave back 5% to $78.96, but a single session's crude move is too small to move a Fed that 70% of economists expect to hold through year-end — the trade needs durable Hormuz…
DXY's push through 100.60 would mark a structural shift in the dollar regime — and the 0.82 inverse correlation with BTC is the mechanism that turns a macro breakout into a crypto selloff.
The discussion paper lands the first structured attempt by a national EU regulator to operationalize MiCA's 'full decentralisation' carve-out — and it lands while MiCA's DeFi gap is still being…