The Senate’s CLARITY Act is getting hit from all sides: Trump-linked ethics concerns, law enforcement resistance to DeFi carveouts, and a fast-growing fight over whether prediction markets are financial contracts or just regulated gambling in a nicer suit.
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A Senate-bound crypto bill is drawing fire from anti-trafficking advocates, who warn a DeFi clause could create AML blind spots and make illicit finance harder to track. Industry groups say the same language would bring clearer rules, not criminal cover.
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Main Street’s msUSD stablecoin cratered after on-chain liquidations and liquidity imbalances shattered its dollar peg, reportedly wiping out 90% of value. The protocol says its risk engine is trying to contain the damage, but trust may be the bigger casualty.
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Ethereum is still under bearish pressure after rejecting key trendline resistance, with lower highs and lower lows keeping bulls on the back foot. Until ETH breaks above $1,350–$1,500 support, the bounce looks more like a dead-cat rally than a real reversal.
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Ireland is calling crypto a major AML and terrorism-financing risk, with tougher source-of-funds rules coming by 2027. The message is clear: DeFi, sanctions evasion, and sloppy compliance are now in the crosshairs, and regulators are done pretending crypto is a toy.
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Malta’s regulator is pushing a new legal category for DAOs as EU MiCA rules tighten, aiming to separate truly decentralized systems from projects with hidden control points, admin keys, and token-heavy governance. Bigger compliance pressure is coming.
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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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