Clarity Act Vote Fails as Lummis Blames Democrats
The failed procedural vote leaves a bipartisan market-structure bill stalled, while partisan conflict threatens to delay clearer rules for the US crypto industry.
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The failed procedural vote leaves a bipartisan market-structure bill stalled, while partisan conflict threatens to delay clearer rules for the US crypto industry.
The approvals point to a repeatable federal route, but final approval, distribution, liquidity and execution will determine whether the charters create durable advantage.
Tokenization, onchain finance and 24/7 trading are moving from experimentation toward a regulatory agenda spanning the CFTC, SEC and Treasury markets.
With the Senate blocking the bill and elections looming, officials say regulatory action will move ahead without waiting for a lame-duck deal.
A prolonged supply shock would put fresh pressure on fuel costs, inflation expectations and risk appetite across global markets.
Regulatory rulemaking, expanding tokenized assets and new exchange revenue streams give both companies catalysts beyond spot trading.
The tie-up brings stablecoin settlement into a major payments ecosystem, connecting a US bank with Mastercard’s global financial network.
A 24% weekly growth rate gives SPCX a stronger adoption signal, but sustained usage will matter more than the first-month milestone.
The index measures vulnerability, not current stress, but high leverage and funding risk could amplify a future shock into forced selling.
The joint venture keeps customer funds inside the regulated banking system while testing 24/7 programmable payments, joining a global race among lenders to put deposits on blockchain rails.
Nearly $1B of net inflows landed as BTC pushed through $86,000, but the next disclosure may carry the real signal: analysts expect Monday's breakout buying to show up in a fresh wave of creations.
The integration turns every ticker in the timeline into a one-tap trading rail, putting Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Moomoo and IBKR directly into the scroll for hundreds of millions of users.
The daily burst nearly doubles the prior week's total inflow, while Ethereum ETFs flipped to $187.93M of daily buying despite staying negative on the 7-day ledger.
Broker-dealers custodying non-security tokens without special registration is the institutional unlock. Once OMB signs off, the on-ramp through regulated US intermediaries stops being theoretical.
Glassnode counts 1.07 million BTC bought between $83K and $86K, supply near breakeven that decides whether the next leg runs toward $100K or back to $82K.
The MVRV cross above its 365-day average has appeared only twice before, in 2019 and 2023, and each time it marked the opening move of a full Bitcoin bull cycle.
Solana clears 76% of all x402 transactions, 23.2 million in four weeks, but the protocol settles in stablecoins rather than SOL, leaving native token demand the open question.
A 57-page ESCB response to the MiCA review would bar CASPs from offering any indirect returns on stablecoins and scrap the 30% to 60% bank-deposit reserve rule in favour of liquidity-based…
Coinbase is the first major consumer platform to run Morpho's fixed-rate engine at scale, layering defined loan terms on top of a $1.4B variable-rate book already live on its app.
Sector cap sits within 4% of its $12B January start, a full round trip from the late-July capitulation that dragged it down to $7B.