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View More NewsThe Clarity Act is widely viewed as the crypto industry’s most important market structure bill because it would establish clear rules for when digital assets are regulated as securities by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or commodities by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), replacing years of regulatory uncertainty. Supporters say that legal clarity would make it easier for banks, asset managers and other institutions to launch tokenized products, custody services and blockchain-based financial offerings, potentially unlocking broader institutional adoption and investment in the sector.According to Jefferies, passage would provide the durable regulatory framework banks, asset managers and exchanges…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $231 million on Monday, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for $300 million of outflows that other funds partly offset, including $50 million into ARKB and $35 million into GBTC, per SoSoValue data.The outflow lands as risk appetite elsewhere is surging. Wall Street’s technology rally spread into Asia on Tuesday, with the MSCI Asia Pacific index up 1% on the year’s final trading day after a semiconductor rebound helped the S&P 500 snap a five-session losing streak. The Asian benchmark is on track for its biggest quarterly gain in almost 17 years.South Korea’s Kospi, which…
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On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’s eponymous 1782 novel.The book has also been denounced plenty of times since it first appeared—back then, it was described with words like “execrable” or “infamous.” Its authorship reportedly got Laclos,…
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Ethena said its yield-generating “synthetic dollar” token will be integrated into BlackRock’s (BLK) Aladdin risk management platform as the crypto protocol is deepening its…
Update 2:00 pm UTC, June 29: Added comment from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework is…
“This is the first time that seized crypto assets have actually been handed over to state management,” the statement reads. The funds came from…
Hyperliquid added to Singapore’s Investor Alert ListThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s central bank and financial regulator, has added decentralized perpetuals exchange…
Ripple, the blockchain firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) network, invested in African payments company Flutterwave as part of its Series E…
SpaceX’s hotly anticipated public debut on June 12 raised $75 billion at $135 per share, valuing the company at more than $2 trillion and…
In brief Robinhood is letting go of 10% of its employees, CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev told the company Tuesday. In April, the company…
Nobody will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being a linguist. But in a recent prescient moment, the oft-rambling, mercurial commander in chief stumbled…
Wall Street’s largest asset managers are increasingly competing to manage the assets backing stablecoins, a market that could swell into the trillions of dollars…
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped back to $66,000 after Tuesday’s Wall Street open as stocks locked in fresh gains.Key points:Bitcoin cools its rebound, even as stock…
In brief A new IMF report has highlighted the “striking” scale of stablecoin adoption in Nigeria. The IMF warned that adoption sharpens risks including…
Docusign diplomacy: A digital preliminary memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran has been signed, leading to an opening of the Strait of…