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In brief OCC head Jonathan Gould said Wednesday the agency will finalize its GENIUS Act stablecoin rules by November, racing to meet a Jan. 18 statutory deadline before the law takes effect in January 2027 after blowing past an earlier July target. The 376-page proposal, released in February and open for comment through May, covers the full life cycle of a payment stablecoin—reserves, redemption at par, liquidity, risk management, audits, custody and wind-downs. Gould said the OCC expects to begin processing issuer applications in 2027 and reported an eightfold jump in digital-asset chartering activity versus the Biden administration. The top…
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I first came across French writer Jean Raspail’s infamous novel The Camp of the Saints while I was reading Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe back in 2017. Raspail’s novel imagines the invasion of Europe by large groups of unsanitary and ravenous migrants from the Global South led by a coprophage (“shit-eater”). Despite his own firmly anti-immigration views, Murray declines to defend the book’s inflammatory contents, but he is nonetheless struck by Raspail’s descriptions of Western passivity in the face of an unsustainable wave of immigration. The book’s overt racism notwithstanding, it has attracted some attention in recent years…
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In brief Coinbase is adding perpetual futures to Base App through Hyperliquid, offering eligible users leverage of up to 50x. Coinbase says perps account…
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Bitcoin (BTC) saw its highest levels since the start of June after Wednesday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to a US government liquidity…
Rising oil prices since the US-Israeli war have been a consistent weight on the price of Ether for the last three months, according to…
Bitcoin Depot, the largest bitcoin ATM operator in North America and publicly listed on Nasdaq, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read the full…
The US Senate’s crypto market structure bill could take until August to pass and risks not advancing at all if lawmakers cannot pass it…
Ether and bitcoin led liquidations, as their prices dropped on macroeconomic concerns. Read the full article here
Crypto analysts are divided over whether markets will see a major Bitcoin sell-off in May, a pattern that has emerged in the last two…
The latest attack adds to growing string of cross-chain infrastructure exploits. Read the full article here
Long-term holders are still sitting tight and exchange balances remain near six-year lows, Binance Research data shows, but underwater short-term holders leave BTC vulnerable…
Asset managers Grayscale and VanEck filed amended S-1 registration statements for their respective spot BNB exchange-traded funds on Friday, bringing the cryptocurrency one step…