Fed Hikes Rates as Inflation Remains Too High
Price stability is now the Fed’s predominant focus, while Warsh declined to signal another hike and warned against relying on individual data releases.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Price stability is now the Fed’s predominant focus, while Warsh declined to signal another hike and warned against relying on individual data releases.
The unanimous 12–0 vote matters less than the dots: 16 of 18 officials see at least one more hike in 2026, and few see rates below 4% by end-2027.
The first hike in over three years came with a hawkish dot plot: 16 of 18 policymakers see another quarter-point move this year, setting up a longer tightening path than markets had priced.
The setback leaves XRP's treatment intact but shifts the near-term rulebook toward agency guidance, which regulators can revise.
The delay pushes a federal Bitcoin reserve proposal past its expected committee checkpoint, leaving the timing of its next legislative step open.
The crypto market structure bill survives on the Senate calendar, but JPMorgan counts only about two and a half weeks of Senate time left before midterms, pushing the focus toward SEC and CFTC…
The vote moves tax certainty closer to federal law, but committee approval alone does not change the rules investors face today.
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act creates a de minimis carve-out for small crypto transactions and treats mining and staking as ordinary income, while Senate momentum stalls on the broader Clarity…
The suit chases 6,360 BTC lost in the March 2020 Covid crash, but it also reopens the gap between Celsius's delta-neutral marketing and the leveraged longs its own bankruptcy filings describe.
Federal prosecutors say the pair traded perps on confidential listing intel, a test of whether commodities-fraud law reaches decentralized venues where the information source and the trading platform…
Stani Kulechov says growing adoption could force Washington's hand, while Aave's new real-world asset hub on Avalanche targets institutional lending in tokenized securities.
The bill's practical value will hinge on its provisions and its progress through Congress, not the committee milestone alone.
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act clears committee with massive bipartisan support just 24 hours after the Clarity Act collapsed in the Senate, keeping small-payment tax relief alive this session.
Visa and Ripple on the same cap table for a B2B payments startup is the structural signal: traditional card-network money and crypto-native rails are co-investing in the same settlement layer.
The pledge puts the SEC at the center of the US policy timetable, a key signal for institutions assessing digital-asset products and exposure.
The CLARITY Act's Senate failure knocked XRP down 7% and dragged the majors to their lows, leaving ZEC as the only large-cap in the green with a quarter-point Fed hike already priced in.
Germany's largest lender entering digital asset storage puts BTC, ETH and stablecoins inside a major TradFi custody stack, pending regulatory approval later this year.
Reframes US crypto regulation as agency-led rulemaking, not congressional legislation, after Selig called the Senate vote 'unfortunate.' The binding constraint now sits at the CFTC, not Congress.
Ten billion ARC tokens were minted as a technical milestone, but the real story is the validator bench: BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, and Visa anchoring a Layer 1 where gas is paid in USDC and…
A DoJ forfeiture filing exposes how the Al-Qassam Brigades coach donors around exchange controls, steering them toward Bybit, OKX, Kast, Redotpay and Tether's USDT on the Tron network.