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Clarity Act dies, Base deploys Cobalt, and Stripe picks Open USD
The Senate's failure to pass the Clarity Act cleared the way for sudden regulatory relief, including a five-year SEC exemption for tokenized equities and …
DBS and Citi Move Weekend USD Payments in Minutes, Not Days
DBS and Citi completed a weekend cross-border USD payment using tokenized deposits on Swift's Digital Ledger, cutting settlement from two days to minutes. …
Binance's $343B Equity Perp Surge Explains Its Stock Options Play
Binance is launching physically settled options on 1,000+ US stocks and ETFs, doubling down on equity derivatives after TradFi perpetual volume hit $433.4B in …
Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Fees
Ethereum's protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting …
CFTC to Regulate Crypto With or Without Congress; Bitcoin Posts Largest Weekly Dollar Gain Ever
Bitcoin surged $14,264 in a single week to close at $77,387 — its largest-ever weekly dollar gain — while spot ETFs absorbed $1.92 billion in net inflows and …
Bitcoin tags $71K on $517M ETF day, Clarity Act gets an Oval Office push
Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into …