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The Clarity Act is picking up unusual momentum in Washington, with backing from the Trump administration and crypto industry executives ahead of its Senate Banking Committee markup. That kind of alignment usually means the fight over U.S. crypto regulation is getting serious. Trump administration support Crypto executives are lobbying hard Senate Banking Committee markup is […]
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Strategy’s STRC preferred stock may be quietly shaping Bitcoin’s mid-month liquidity cycles Bitcoin is being influenced by more than spot buyers and ETF inflows now. K33 Research says Strategy’s STRC mechanism may be creating a recurring flow of capital that helps drive Bitcoin buying pressure around the middle of each month. STRC may be adding […]
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Aave CEO Stani Kulechov says the U.S. Clarity Act could be a major turning point for DeFi regulation, but Bitcoin near $80,000 shows the market is still stuck under macro pressure and the Fed’s “higher for longer” hangover. DeFi regulation could finally get clearer lines Non-custodial protocols may gain legal breathing room Bitcoin near $80K […]
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Bitcoin institutional holdings have swelled to a scale that would have sounded ridiculous just a few years ago, with ETFs, corporate treasuries, and sovereign entities now sitting on a combined 3.24 million BTC. 3.24 million BTC is now in institutional hands Bitcoin ETFs hold the largest share at 1.39 million BTC Corporate treasuries follow with […]
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Arkham says it has identified crypto wallets linked to Iran’s central bank, and the US Treasury’s sanctions response has already frozen roughly $344 million tied to the network. The money trail runs through Tron, Tether, and a mess of brokers, bridges, and DeFi tools built to make sanctions evasion harder to spot. Public wallet map: […]
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Quantum computing is no longer just a nerdy thought experiment on the edge of Bitcoin Twitter. Alex Pruden is warning that it could eventually threaten the elliptic curve cryptography, or ECC, that protects Bitcoin signatures — and that the network should stop treating the issue like some far-off museum exhibit. ECC risk: Bitcoin’s signature system […]
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$1.88 million reportedly vanished from TransitFinance after a smart contract exploit, reminding DeFi users that old code can become very expensive baggage. Reported loss: About $1.88 million Target: TransitFinance Main issue: Hidden risks in legacy smart contracts Lesson: Old code is still attack surface TransitFinance has reportedly been hit by an exploit that drained roughly […]
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The CLARITY Act Thursday markup explained is heading into a Senate Banking Committee markup on Thursday, but that is not the same thing as crypto getting regulatory clarity. It is only the first ugly grind through a legislative process that still has several ways to go sideways. Markup is not passage 60 Senate votes are […]
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JPMorgan is putting a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, another sign that Wall Street is no longer treating blockchain as a novelty act. JPMorgan filed a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum Ticker: JLTXX under JPMorgan Trust IV Permissioned blockchain setup, not open DeFi 0.16% net expense ratio after waivers BlackRock and JPMorgan are […]
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Tokenized Apple shares can trade 24/7 on crypto rails, but Kaiko Research says they still don’t come close to behaving like a real Nasdaq substitute. Liquidity is still brutally thin Order-book depth is far too shallow USDC, USDT, and USD pricing drifts apart Round-the-clock access does not fix bad execution Kaiko Research, in analysis published […]
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