Russia’s digital ruble is moving from pilot to mandatory infrastructure, with large banks and major merchants required to support it starting 1 September 2026. Consumers won’t be forced to use it, but the state is clearly building its own payment rails.
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Trump is set to host the White House’s first crypto summit as Washington officially pivots toward a more pro-digital assets stance. The meeting could spotlight stablecoins, seized crypto, and the administration’s hard anti-CBDC line — but the real test is whether friendly rhetoric turns into actual policy.
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Chainlink is popping up in central-bank and tokenized-settlement pilots in Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia and mBridge-related work — a real sign of institutional interest, but still mostly testing, not live monetary plumbing. The big story is interoperability, not moon-boy hype.
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CLARITY has spent a year stuck in the Senate while Congress keeps favoring narrower crypto bills that are easier to pass and harder to fight over. GENIUS became law; market structure reform remains mired in politics, ethics fights, and Washington’s love of half-measures.
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The CLARITY Act is still moving through Congress, but Senate ethics drama, committee haggling, and a separate CBDC showdown could slow it down. The bill aims to finally set real crypto market rules — if Washington can stop turning it into a political dumpster fire.
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The U.S. has given stablecoins their first federal rulebook with the GENIUS Act, setting 1:1 reserve backing and monthly disclosures. It’s a win for compliant issuers, but the CBDC fight is still unsettled — not a clean ban, just a political mess in progress.
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Trump is using a housing bill to pressure the Senate on voting rules, while anti-CBDC language keeps crypto policy in the mix. The result: a messy Washington standoff where housing, election fights, and digital money politics collide.
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The U.S. is steering toward regulated private stablecoins as its digital dollar layer while blocking a retail Fed CBDC, a move that favors USDC and USDT but keeps privacy, control, and reserve-risk debates very much alive.
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Trump’s delay of a bipartisan housing bill has spilled into the crypto policy fight, potentially slowing anti-CBDC momentum and crowding out the Clarity Act before Congress leaves for recess. The move is as much political leverage as policy — and Washington’s usual mess, with extra paperwork.
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Trump’s delay on a bipartisan housing bill has thrown a CBDC ban into the spotlight, turning a housing measure into a broader fight over Federal Reserve digital money, crypto policy, and political leverage in Washington.
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