CFTC Chair Michael Selig said on Aug. 4 that the agency has crypto rule proposals ready and plans to finalize them before the current administration ends, regardless of whether Congress passes the CLARITY Act. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has separately said the SEC can keep pursuing meaningful crypto rulemaking even if Congress fails to act.…
The SEC issued joint guidance with the CFTC last week, classifying digital assets into five categories: digital commodities, digital collectibles, digital tools, stablecoins, and digital securities, signaling that the agency will build its own crypto regulatory framework rather than wait indefinitely for the Senate’s stalled CLARITY Act. The move gives exchanges, token issuers and traders…
The flight-tracking company voluntarily dismissed, without prejudice and without sharing a motive for its decision. However, the flight cancellation market never took off with Kalshi users.
Bitcoin trades near $63,600, below the lowest Bitcoin price researchers tested against a modeled wind-powered mining operation in a new Energy Economics study. At that price level, their model shows no payback within six years under any curtailment scenario they ran. The study, by researchers at the Technological University of the Shannon, models a 20…
Non-qualified investors face a 300,000-ruble (approx. $3,600) annual purchase limit per intermediary, while qualified investors have no cap.
Markets are quiet ahead of the July inflation print, with bitcoin little changed, oil near $90 and Harmony nursing a fresh exploit.
The BOE-led Digital Pound Lab will test trade-finance interoperability, in which exporters receive stablecoins while importers settle in a potential digital pound.
Twenty One Capital says investors value its shares below its Bitcoin holdings even as 37% of the treasury remains pledged against debt. On Aug. 11, the company’s CEO Raphael Zagury told shareholders that XXI was trading at a “material discount” to the Bitcoin it holds, describing the gap as a potential misallocation of capital. The…
Booming AI demand sends CRWV up 16% and lifts IREN and CIFR as investors favor computing infrastructure over crypto.
The fund would keep 85% of gross staking rewards, with the remaining 15% going to service providers.