CFTC Chairman Selig taps two new senior officials as agency expands amid prediction market fights The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is adding senior firepower just as prediction markets become one of the nastier regulatory battlegrounds in U.S. finance. Two new senior officials added at the CFTC Prediction markets face growing regulatory scrutiny Crypto and DeFi […]
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Stablecoins as Idle Cash: Why $320B in Supply Still Needs Real Payment Velocity Stablecoins have ballooned into a roughly $320 billion market, but a fat supply number does not automatically mean real-world usefulness. If those digital dollars are mostly sitting around like parked cash instead of moving through payments, remittances, settlement, and liquidity management, then […]
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The CLARITY Act is moving into its final Senate stretch, with the White House still pushing for a July 4 deadline as lawmakers battle over crypto market structure, stablecoin yield, DeFi rules, and which regulator gets the bigger stick. The goal is to replace the US’s regulatory mess with something clearer, but Washington still has […]
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The SEC is trying to unwind two of the old guard’s favorite stock market rules, and that could make tokenized U.S. equities far easier to trade on DeFi rails — but only if regulators can stop tripping over their own legal spaghetti. SEC rollback: Rule 611 and Rule 610(e) may be scrapped DeFi angle: AMMs […]
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Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz says crypto is heading into a harsher security era, where AI will expose weak projects, fake decentralization, and sloppy smart contract design. AI is raising the security bar for crypto and DeFi, not just the attack surface. Immutable financial code needs far more rigor than standard web software. “Straw houses” […]
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Hyperliquid Policy Center and Paradigm are warning U.S. regulators not to turn the GENIUS Act’s stablecoin rules into a compliance hammer that smashes DeFi along with the bad actors. Core dispute: AML and sanctions rules for stablecoin issuers Big concern: Don’t hold issuers liable for transactions they can’t control Market risk: Overreach could push liquidity […]
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The European Union is weighing whether DeFi, prediction markets, and crypto perpetual futures should fall under MiCA, its main crypto rulebook. Translation: Brussels is trying to decide how far its grip on onchain markets should reach before the lawyers, traders, and protocol builders all start yelling at once. EU crypto regulation: MiCA may expand into […]
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Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher on June 7, but the bigger signal was the lack of broad follow-through across crypto. The market is still drifting toward the largest, most liquid assets while trading activity cools in spot, DeFi, stablecoins, and derivatives. Bitcoin price: $61,453, up 0.92% Ethereum price: $1,591, up 1.08% Market tone: consolidation mode, […]
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The CLARITY Act is still moving in the Senate, but passage is far from guaranteed as lawmakers clash over ethics rules, DeFi enforcement, and protections for software developers. Advanced through Senate Agriculture and Banking Committees Needs 60 votes to beat a filibuster Ethics guardrails are a Democratic red line DeFi enforcement language remains unsettled August […]
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The fight over the CLARITY Act is no longer a quiet Capitol Hill paperwork exercise. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has taken aim at the U.S. crypto market structure bill, and Senator Cynthia Lummis is firing back, accusing big banks of fear-mongering because they do not want to lose control of payments and settlement. Dimon attacks […]
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