Sunday, 20 September 2026
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Welcome to another update on the Clarity Act. Will it pass? Jury (and by that I mean Congress) is still out. It's certainly possible. But we are running into some timeline issues, like the fact that it is now July.
Everyone in crypto is talking about stablecoin yield right now. Yield-bearing stablecoins grew roughly 300% last year, and 21Shares expects the segment to more than triple to over $50 billion in 2026. Every few weeks, a…
Americans are not supposed to be on Polymarket, but they were its biggest national political crowd over the last year anyway.
Kalshi is putting a hefty bet on its legal wrangling as the prediction markets firm fights for its survival in the potentially existential question: Are its users gambling or purchasing derivatives?
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said this week that he will hold his bitcoin
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's suggestion that the estimated 1.1 million tokens belonging to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto should be frozen to prevent them from being stolen should quantum computers break the block…
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
Tokenization advocates often point to faster settlement, around-the-clock trading and using the tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) as the biggest advantages of bringing traditional assets onto blockchain rails.
Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 in U.S. morning hours Saturday, up 1.4% over 24 hours and 3.6% on the week, per CoinDesk data, its highest in two weeks and a full reversal of the losses that closed out June.
Despite record highs in equities, the world's largest cryptocurrency has struggled to regain momentum while U.S. technology stocks have surged on enthusiasm surrounding AI as it currently trades just below the $62,000 m…
Investors holding the TRUMP memecoin are down $3.81 billion combined, while the U.S. President made more than $1.4 billion from his crypto ties, according to data from analytics firm Nansen shared with CoinDesk.
Europe has done something important. With MiCA, the EU created the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto-assets. That is a significant achievement, not only for the digital asset industry, but for …
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said some prediction-market contracts may be covered by the European Union’s binary options ban, warning firms that yes-or-no event contracts cannot be marketed, dist…
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) unveiled its cryptocurrency regulatory framework this week, winning early praise for taking an internationally connected approach, but industry participants said significant …
XRP holders are underwater by more, on average, than they have ever been, according to onchain data that some traders treat as a contrarian floor signal.
Bitcoin returns far less for every dollar of new money entering it than it did in its early years, a decline in capital efficiency that has grown sharper as the asset has scaled.
Revolut, Europe’s largest fintech company, will end support for USDT, with the delisting process beginning this month. Users can buy USDT until July 6, deposit USDT until July 30, and sell or withdraw their holdings to …
President Donald Trump said there is 'nothing wrong' with the money his family has made in crypto, responding to financial disclosures that showed he earned at least $1.4 billion from the industry last year.
The crypto market is ending the week in a healthier position than where it started, with bitcoin
The standout equity winners this year have been memory and semiconductor stocks, which are crucial to the AI industry and have sidelined much of the crypto industry as investors sought to get a look-in on the hottest ne…
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U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) shed $4.06 billion in June, their worst month since listing, past the previous record of $3.56 billion set in February 2025.
Fidelity’s FBTC led the charge with a hefty $165.96 million inflow, followed by ARKB at $91.84 million and HODL at $4.35 million. BlackRock’s IBIT, the world’s largest Bitcoin ETF, was the outlier with a $40.43 million …
Tokenization, the process of moving financial assets into a blockchain environment, could make markets faster and cheaper. It could also make them more vulnerable to shocks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned …