Coinbase has secured Abu Dhabi approval to build a regulated tokenized securities hub, using blockchain rails for assets backed by real shares. It’s a serious step for on-chain finance — but with heavy compliance, frozen wallets, and none of the “decentralized” fairy dust.
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X is tightening creator payouts around original content, while reports of a future USDC option are still unconfirmed. The move could improve monetization and cross-border payments — or just add more centralized control dressed up as innovation.
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South Korea says its long-delayed 22% crypto tax will apply to private wallets and overseas exchanges starting in 2027, signaling tighter enforcement even as staking, airdrops and hard forks remain unresolved. Self-custody may help privacy, but it won’t erase the taxman.
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Securitize says the SEC has paused a planned crypto exemption as Washington braces for a Sept. 15 Senate vote on the CLARITY Act, adding more uncertainty to tokenization rules. The delay underscores the messy overlap between SEC rulemaking and Congress’s crypto crackdown-on-paper.
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XRP has reclaimed $1 and is pushing toward $1.10, giving bulls their first real test of strength, while rising RLUSD activity adds a more concrete use-case backdrop. The rebound looks better, but until resistance breaks, it’s momentum—not confirmation.
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Arthur Hayes is betting FLOP can turn AI compute into a tradable asset, with 20% of supply earmarked for testnet users over 10 years. Ambitious? Absolutely. But the real test is whether Flop Network can verify useful inference, or just slap a token on a brutal engineering problem.
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Trump is pressing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, a market-structure bill that could finally define U.S. crypto rules and split oversight between the SEC and CFTC. But with Senate fights over DeFi, ethics, and stablecoin rewards, the path forward is anything but clean.
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BitGo Korea has secured VASP registration in South Korea just as new crypto rules raise the bar on ownership, capital, and compliance. The approval opens the door to institutional custody and transfer services, not a retail exchange, in one of Asia’s strictest markets.
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Swift has moved tokenized deposits from theory to a live test, linking HSBC and Standard Chartered through its blockchain-based ledger while final settlement stayed in the traditional banking system. It’s a small but meaningful step toward interoperable bank money, not full onchain settlement.
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Bitcoin’s climb back near $70K looks encouraging, but Glassnode says the on-chain damage hasn’t been fully cleaned up. Macro tailwinds, ETF flows, and derivatives are helping, yet weak spot demand and stressed market signals suggest this may still be a bounce, not a true bottom.
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