Catholic leaders push to kill CLARITY Act over stablecoin rules
Nearly 100 Catholic figures say a provision loosening illicit-finance checks on stablecoin issuers would weaken the financial system's frontline defenses against human trafficking.
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Nearly 100 Catholic figures say a provision loosening illicit-finance checks on stablecoin issuers would weaken the financial system's frontline defenses against human trafficking.
Every month of 2026 has bled DeFi TVL, with $70B now anchoring the sector and TRON and Hyperliquid the only top-10 chains to add value this year.
A 3% slide in NVIDIA below a $5T market cap pulled crypto and the S&P 500 lower, with rate-hike speculation and ETH Foundation layoffs deepening the risk-off tone.
The layoffs come as the network posts record throughput and tokenized assets hit $203B, while base-layer fee revenue halves and spot ETH ETFs bleed for seven straight weeks.
The four-day streak is the headline, not the dollar size: combined outflows of $196M are small relative to AUM, but the synchronized BTC and ETH pullback hints at a coordinated de-risking by one set…
The Fear & Greed Index sits at 17, BTC dominance is climbing toward 56%, and US spot Bitcoin ETFs have now bled cash for four straight sessions, the risk-off cross-currents a $62K BTC is absorbing in…
Five senators want sworn testimony on whether a half-billion-dollar World Liberty Financial investment from an Abu Dhabi royal's lieutenants bought favorable U.S.
The 90-day average of BTC spent by 5+ year holders just dropped to 962 BTC, the lowest since November 2024, and the level lines up with the most expensive coins that cohort could have bought five…
The Mini-S&P 500 contracts are the first products under the new suite, live now on Interactive Brokers and rolling out to Charles Schwab in the coming months.
When Layer 2 fees fall below the cost of executing on the L1 itself, the original scaling thesis stops paying out, and dozens of rollups are left searching for a reason to exist.
Wintermute's OTC desk sees BTC grinding toward its bear-market low while options markets price a tight 1.9% daily move, with three catalysts, PCE, Iran headlines, and a quarter-end options expiry,…
Spot BTC ETFs just printed a record $6B 30-day outflow, and a $10.6B options expiry on Friday puts the $60,000 floor in front of the entire market.
The Binance founder's back-to-back posts are a rare live read on a venue that has refused identity checks: the praise is real, the legal warning is louder.
The single-seat spend is the biggest Fairshake has made in a House race so far, and the broader primary haul shows the industry's campaign-finance muscle scaling ahead of a November it has already…
The endorsement matters less for the 1-2% number than for what it signals: BlackRock is now teaching advisors how to position BTC inside a traditional 60/40.
The chamber cleared a multi-year moratorium on a retail Fed digital dollar, sending the fight to the Senate where central-bank digital currency policy has split both parties.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act cleared the House on Tuesday with a CBDC prohibition tucked in, setting up a near-term ban on a US central bank digital currency through 2030.
The addition makes Alphabet the fourth megacap tech name on the 30-stock blue-chip gauge, a structural reweighting that forces index-tracking funds to buy $GOOGL and sell $VZ.
If KakaoBank-style scale meets Western Union's USDP rails on Solana, the test is whether on-chain settlement actually beats correspondent banking for the cross-border retail remittance market.
A formal draft from Senate Banking would end years of piecemeal IRS guidance, replacing it with statutory rules on custody, DeFi, and reporting that the industry has lobbied for since 2022.