CLARITY Act: 3 Blockers Threaten Crypto Bill Before July 4
Fed's first GENIUS Act rulemaking lands mid-countdown — issuer identification program drops the same week the market-structure bill needs floor time to clear the Senate before recess.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Fed's first GENIUS Act rulemaking lands mid-countdown — issuer identification program drops the same week the market-structure bill needs floor time to clear the Senate before recess.
Aave still holds 46.5% of the $20.4B outstanding — but the sector has shed $14.9B in active loans since January as leverage drains out of the largest protocols.
The Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund is purpose-built to hold T-bills and overnight repos under the GENIUS Act — joining State Street, BNY, Goldman and BlackRock in a TradFi stampede for stablecoin…
The first major US broker-led entry into event-based trading sidesteps political and sports contracts — a regulatory and reputational hedge that may shape how TradFi giants enter the space.
Trent VanEpps pegs the ecosystem's annual core-dev budget at roughly $30M; with the Client Incentive Program gone and EF treasury cuts rolling in, he says contributor flight and a 12-18 month symptom…
The novel wrapper targets institutional allocators who want equity beta with a passive BTC accumulation engine — and it lands as Franklin's spot BTC ETF already holds $359M in assets.
Brent settled near $79.85 and tankers cleared the Strait for the first time in weeks, but a dot plot showing 9 of 18 Fed officials now expect a rate hike pushed DXY to a one-year high and drove BTC…
A national pool mandating every licensed miner to connect is the structural tell — Oman isn't just hosting hashrate, it's running it through a single regulator-visible chokepoint.
The 95/5 structure turns dividend payouts into a steady, automatic bid for spot Bitcoin — a regulated wrapper that institutional allocators can buy without ever touching crypto directly.
BTC sits just below $62,400 with $450M of longs liquidated in 24 hours, while Strategy's STRC preferred trades below par and miners near $78K cost basis are starting to look like forced sellers.
The second co-departure in four months lands while a former core developer warns the foundation could run out of funds within nine — the governance and treasury signal both hit at once.
Just 194 of 3,000+ crypto firms have EU licenses as July 1 hits — Binance faces a Greek rejection, Tether's USDT retreats from licensed venues, and the ECB's digital euro timeline quietly benefits.
STRC and SATA both cut roughly 10% from par before rebounding — but the intraday round-trip suggests forced selling from margined carry trades, not a real credit break, with double-digit yields…
Extreme fear reading and a 56% BTC dominance signal a risk-off flush; altcoin breadth is fragile even as a handful of small caps print 30-95% intraday spikes.
The joint rulemaking lands days after CME sued the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi's perpetual futures — meaning the comment period will shape the very product line the lawsuit targets.
At $78,000 to produce a single coin against a $62,500 market price, roughly a fifth of miners are now unprofitable — and publicly traded miners offloaded 32,000 BTC in Q1 alone to cover costs.
Deribit flow into out-of-the-money puts hit strikes from $61,500 to $52,000 over a 48-hour window — a hedge trade that also reads as a directional bet while a hawkish Fed, persistent ETF outflows and…
The chart floor at $59K–$60K is now the level that matters; a break opens the door to the $45K target some traders are already calling, while the altseason thesis quietly falls apart.
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 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…