Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Warren Buffett's cash hoard is now larger than the GDP of most countries, a signal that even the world's most patient capital is bracing for something it would rather not name.
The framework gives the sector legal clarity it has wanted for years, but the compliance cost may concentrate issuance among the firms that can absorb it.
A single weekly digest where the legacy-treasury unwind, the regulator's next move, the exchange's EU custody pivot, and a Russian state-bank wallet all land in the same news cycle.
The split suggests MiCA pushed retail toward self-custody rather than toward MiCA-licensed competitors, a structural read on how Europe's landmark crypto regime is reshaping user behavior.
A July 17 hearing puts the market-structure bill back on the calendar, but the SEC writing rules in parallel suggests Washington expects CLARITY to survive Senate math, not stall in it.
Polymarket's $3.3B World Cup run proved the demand, and a stack of ETF filings would route that volume through regulated rails rather than offshore crypto books.
The charter pulls $73.2B in USDC reserves one regulator closer to OCC supervision, and it lands inside a wave of crypto firms, from Kraken to BitGo, racing for federal banking licences.
Finance Minister Katayama's push to steer GPIF into domestic bonds hands holders negative real yields, the textbook setup that Russell Napier says drives capital into hard assets like bitcoin and…
First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. is the inaugural national trust charter scoped to a stablecoin issuer, giving USDC a federally supervised fiduciary home before the stablecoin regime goes…
The OCC charter lets Circle sit alongside the regulated US banks holding digital assets in custody, formalising the legitimacy that issuers have spent the last three years arguing USDC already has.
The IEA's 2026 demand decline forecast, its first outside the pandemic shock, lands as Middle East supply disruptions and a structural EV shift pull consumption in opposite directions.
The July 9 letter asks the CFTC to turn Phantom's March no-action relief into a broader, codified rule so any wallet can plug into registered derivatives venues without becoming a broker.
The split matters: with BTC back at a level it failed to break earlier in the week and ETH outperforming, derivatives data shows the move is being driven by strategic positioning rather than…
Built in nine months and live across the largest bank consortium on the planet, SWIFT's crypto ledger turns cross-border tokenized settlement from pilot theater into production rails overnight.
Agentic trading is moving from experimental wrappers to a tier-one neobank, with Revolut exposing its exchange to third-party AI models while keeping the user on the hook for every approval click.
The threat is not a $4.7T headline but a structural one: if tokenized deposits and securities settle inside bank-controlled ledgers, the volume that once fed public chains never arrives, leaving…
The team ran core developer calls, EIP coordination, and the Protocol Fellowship. Its dissolution is part of a wider shake-up at the foundation, not a one-off layoff.
Ark rotated out of Robinhood and into USDC issuer Circle the same week Circle's stock slid more than 20% from its post-IPO peak, a classic Wood-style buy-the-dip on a name she has called out as…
A market-structure bill that splits regulator jurisdiction over digital assets could land in the House as soon as next week, pulling regulatory clarity back to the front of the crypto agenda.
The simultaneous unwind hits on the same session: $95M out of spot Bitcoin ETFs, plus a $52M ETH fund pull that ends a five-day run of net inflows.
WatcherGuru
CryptoSlate
WuBlockchain
TheBlock
CoinDesk
CoinTelegraph
Crypto News