US Crypto Trails EU, Asia as Senate Blocks Clarity Act
The Senate's failure leaves US crypto without a federal framework while MiCA-era Europe and Asian hubs compound their lead.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The Senate's failure leaves US crypto without a federal framework while MiCA-era Europe and Asian hubs compound their lead.
The bill would turn an executive-policy framework into statute, but it does not start the 20-year clock or authorize new federal Bitcoin purchases.
The deal would connect institutional risk assessment with smart-contract security as banks, funds, stablecoins and DeFi protocols move further onchain.
The 200M gas ceiling is the headline, but the parallel-execution access lists are the real unlock. If mainnet gets the same architecture, Ethereum absorbs DeFi surges without the fee spikes that…
SPGI is not a name TradFi allocators would expect to buy a crypto-native security firm. With 900+ audits and the dominant smart contract library under SPGI, onchain risk assessment gains a…
Circle's bet is USDC-native fees pulling payments rails and meme traders onto the same chain, with day-one Argus volume only proving half the thesis.
Tokenized equities can route through permissioned onchain AMMs without triggering 1934 Act exchange classification. Narrow and temporary, but the first U.S.-blessed onchain venue for NMS stocks.
The single-day figure is the headline, but the seven-day tally is the signal: $920M now out of spot BTC ETFs in a week, pointing to institutional de-risking rather than a one-day trim.
The five-year exemption redraws US exchange and dealer lines for tokenized stocks after the Clarity Act failed 49-50.
Credit ratings stop at the issuer. Buying the security firm behind $37T in token transfers gives S&P a way to price the next risk layer banks will face as tokenized money hits their books.
The first live U.S. regulatory path to onchain stock trading, opened by Atkins with statutory reach two days after the Senate's CLARITY Act failure.
For years the RWA sector has run tokenized equities in offshore venues and grey zones. The temporary SEC exemption now names a defined on-chain path.
A narrow carve-out, but the directional signal is the real story: the SEC is now issuing safe-harbour guidance for onchain venues rather than pursuing case-by-case action.
Huang's doubling call lands as the rest of the AI supply chain is still ramping to catch Nvidia's first-mover scale, framing the next cycle as another up-leg rather than a digestion year.
Two US exchanges and a major retail broker are now racing to bring crypto-style perpetual futures onto fully regulated rails, a structural bridge the rest of the derivatives industry will measure…
Long yields climbed to 5.27% on the 30-year as private capital parked $45B into short-dated bills instead, raising the opportunity cost of holding Bitcoin and tightening the financial conditions risk…
XRPL's addition to Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol puts XRP at the settlement layer of agent-to-agent commerce, where deterministic finality and native payment channels matter more than…
The proposed move puts smart-contract risk management closer to the market infrastructure institutional investors already rely on.
Glassnode flags $71,300 as the next short-term-holder cost-basis test, with a heavier support band between $62K and $65K if that fails.
The dollar number leads, but the structural read matters more: a single application-layer venue outpaced every major L1 and L2, suggesting perps liquidity has consolidated onto purpose-built order…