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View More NewsThe U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reduced the proposed capital requirements for stablecoin issuers as it set out its formal guidance for cryptocurrency regulations.The financial services regulator cut the amount of financial backing that needs to be set aside to 1% of the total value of the stablecoins they issue. It was previously 2%.The change “makes the prudential framework more proportionate for larger issuers while maintaining the robustness of the overall regime,” the FCA said in a new framework document published Tuesday.The proposed requirement is lower than the 2% equivalent stipulation under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA)…
In this segment of Free Media, Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move further left as he tries to appeal to the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. The post Gavin Newsom Is Totally Wrong About Taxes appeared first on Reason.com. Read the full article here
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A review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance; 288 pages; HarperCollins: New York (June 2026)The novelist Evelyn Waugh was once asked how he reconciled his lousy personal behaviour—which included drunkenness, antisemitism, and cruelty to friends and foes alike—with his Catholic faith. No one could imagine, Waugh replied, how vile he would have been were he not a Catholic. That retort came to mind as I read US vice president JD Vance’s new book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism. Since joining the Church of Rome in 2019, Vance has not exactly been a paragon of virtue. Once…
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Still, he argued that the Circle’s 16% selloff on Tuesday went too far.”I think it is an overreaction,” he told CoinDesk.Circle selloff (TradingView)He pointed…
Nasdaq has selected Pyth, an onchain financial data network, to distribute its proprietary market data to blockchain applications and other software platforms.The partnership initially…
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In brief A federal judge dismissed xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI without leave to amend. Judge Rita Lin found xAI failed to show…