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View More NewsMiCA left crypto lending outside its original rulebook — but now Brussels is considering whether to bring it in.On May 20, 2026, the European Commission asked stakeholders to weigh in on areas left outside the original Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework. These include issues around decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto lending and borrowing. One area of contention involves lending vaults, which can channel billions of dollars into onchain credit markets without looking like conventional lending. Their legal status currently depends on non binding interpretations that they fall outside of MiCA and EU fund rules. Yuriy Brisov, an EU digital…
In brief XRP jumped as much as 14.21% in 24 hours to $1.40, making it the best-performing asset among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap today. The daily candle closed above both the 50-day and 200-day EMAs for the first time since XRP’s death cross locked in earlier this month. The move rides the same Bitcoin short squeeze and Treasury-driven liquidity wave that’s been ripping through crypto all week. Crypto is having one of its best weeks in months, and XRP just grabbed the wheel.Bitcoin punched through $72,000 this week on the back of a record short squeeze—traders who…
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from the found-the-vote-fraud dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons,…
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