The CLARITY Act is picking up police support after revisions eased law-enforcement concerns, but its path through the Senate is still messy. Stablecoin rewards, developer protections, and ethics fights could keep the crypto market structure bill stuck in Washington’s favorite pastime: gridlock.
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Big US banks are reportedly weighing a shared permissioned blockchain for tokenized deposits, aiming to speed up dollar settlement and cut reconciliation pain. The idea is promising, but it’s still exploratory — and governance, regulation, and bank politics may be the real bottlenecks.
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DTCC’s live tokenization rollout shows Wall Street isn’t getting replaced by crypto — it’s absorbing the useful parts and turning them into market infrastructure. The real fight now is legal rights and settlement, not flashy blockchain branding.
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Anthropic says Claude found a serious flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate, trimming its security margin but not affecting Bitcoin or Ethereum. The bigger takeaway: AI is becoming a real cryptanalysis tool, and Bitcoin’s post-quantum migration is getting harder to ignore.
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SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the SEC is ready to write crypto rules itself if Congress delays the CLARITY Act, setting up a high-stakes fight over who gets to define U.S. crypto markets: lawmakers or regulators. Clear rules or more bureaucratic chaos — pick your poison.
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Aave is proposing to shut down six low-activity chains and trim dozens of underused reserves in a $98M cleanup aimed at cutting overhead and refocusing on higher-value markets. The move is still pending governance, but it signals a more selective Aave, not a full multichain retreat.
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Samsung is turning its Dunamu stake into a bid for the backbone of stablecoin payments, with Samsung Wallet also set to support stablecoins. The move hints at a serious push into digital asset infrastructure, but regulation, control, and corporate gatekeeping could shape how open it really is.
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South Korea’s central bank has finished real-money tests in a BIS project using tokenized reserve payments, showing how wholesale CBDC-style rails could streamline cross-border settlement. It’s progress on the plumbing — but stablecoin rules and full rollout are still very much a work in progress.
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Ark Invest is not abandoning crypto equities — it’s rotating into the names it likes most, buying Coinbase and Circle while trimming Bitmine, Bullish, and Block as the sector weakens and U.S. policy stays murky. Bitcoin and stablecoin rules still run the show.
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ONDO’s case for a $100 billion market cap rests on real traction in tokenized Treasuries, stocks, and regulatory access — but the big question is whether that growth actually flows back to token holders. Strong thesis, brutal execution test.
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