Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The figure is a direct read on MiCA's first months: regulated venues are now the off-ramp, not the destination, for European crypto capital.
The $4.7T bank's framing inverts the usual narrative: it isn't MicroStrategy's leverage, but Wall Street building permissioned ledgers that could redirect institutional capital away from BTC.
Q2's twin liquidity events in tradable crypto and locked-up private credit say more about the macro backdrop than either signal alone, with the SPR at a 1983 low compounding the risk-off read.
Selig's rare on-the-record rebuke of a self-certification by a systemically important venue is the actual story: CME now faces a stay and a public record on how it uses its own rule-making shortcut.
Permissionless rails meet a retail-grade brand: in week one, an unlisted cat token outgrew the chain's RWA ambitions in market cap and volume.
The CFTC's current framework assumes intermediaries that onchain protocols do not have, so applying broker and exchange rules to them is a category error that risks freezing US DeFi derivatives in…
Compass Point's framework values miners as landlords, and APLD, WULF and CIFR are trading below the rental income their signed AI contracts already lock in.
The bank's research desk flags a structural threat bigger than any single seller's flows: if tokenization, payments, and settlement migrate to permissioned rails, public-chain activity and token…
Bitcoin fell 14% in Q2 while the S&P 500 rallied 15% and the Nasdaq 100 jumped 27%, the sharpest divergence since 2022 driven by a decisive institutional rotation into AI equities.
The decision gives the President more power over independent regulators mid-rulemaking, and a former agency official is already calling the fallout unfortunate.
Ethereum Institutional goes live with 500 bank and asset-manager relationships already in the books, filling the gap the Foundation keeps stepping away from as BlackRock, JPMorgan and Robinhood build…
Alfa-Bank's pilot lands in a market that has shifted from blanket prohibition to state-issued rules under the digital-ruble framework, positioning private incumbents to handle the volume exchanges…
The vote green-lights client-side scanning of encrypted chats on platforms from Signal to WhatsApp, with critics warning it breaks end-to-end privacy for 450M Europeans.
The drained sum is small against Cardano's $87.5B 30-day voting power, but the failure hit the same wallet environment where ordinary ADA holders delegate and cast treasury votes.
The up to $600M in milestone payments via Starwood shows MARA willing to fund expansion in stock rather than cash, a signal of how thinly priced HPC power has become for public miners.
Native issuance cuts bridging friction for a $1B-supply stablecoin, landing on a network that has already settled $2.6T in stablecoin volume and a growing institutional footprint.
A single-investor round of that size from a Japanese financial conglomerate signals that institutional DeFi infrastructure is being built, not just speculated on.
Long-term holders are realising losses at a pace not seen since the Dec 2022 floor, while spot ETFs bled another $85M the same week BTC briefly rallied 9% on a now-broken Iran ceasefire.
The market-structure bill hands spot crypto oversight to the CFTC, but a 21.5% FTE shortfall means the agency has to build a regulatory machine before it can run one.
The Wisconsin criminal complaint is unusual: it targets a stablecoin issuer's refusal to act on a fraud recovery request, not a stablecoin depeg or reserve shortfall.
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