After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary “digital media” and earning card rewards.
The crypto platform’s market value has fallen to about $753 million, putting fresh attention on the licenses, custody infrastructure and customer relationships a buyer could inherit.
A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market’s riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.
Trump posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation.
Market experts view bitcoin’s price stability as evidence of its fundamental independence from Washington, maintaining that global liquidity and adoption cycles remain the primary growth drivers.
Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts said the agency’s move create new opportunities in custody, tokenization infrastructure and stablecoin settlement, while giving brokers room to expand onchain products.
At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for each one they hold.
The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.
The new ASSX fund offers 2x daily exposure to Strive shares, giving traders a leveraged way to bet on the Bitcoin treasury company.
Kalshi’s proposal would bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to US traders, as Coinbase and Bitnomial pursue similar products.
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company cut its potential share pool by 41%.
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.
U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto’s hottest privacy trade.
Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.
The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around the feature after an extensive security review.
The network’s clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
“Bitcoin feels like the CD in the age of Spotify, the DVD in the age of Netflix,” wrote Jason Calacanis.
JPMorgan and Citi move billions in tokenized deposits, but only among their branches. A U.K. challenger bank is about to do something neither has done.
Seven-day average fees fell 82% while transaction counts slipped 6%, with about $1.5 billion a day still changing hands.
Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity.
Singapore-based payments company completes Series A funding round with Japanese investor SBI Group.
Former banking official gets four years in prison over false letters of credit and accepting $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes.
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.
Coinbase wants to bring 24/5 perpetual futures trading to individual US stocks, with its proposed contracts now awaiting regulatory approval.
A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays for its own security after 2031.
Binance is joining a growing number of crypto exchanges offering around-the-clock exposure to foreign exchange markets through perpetual futures.
Kevin O’Leary believes Bitcoin could hit $1 million if crypto beats its quantum computing problem, and explained why he’s ditching Ethereum.
Coinbase, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks rallied Friday as the CFTC and SEC moved ahead with crypto-related actions under existing authority.