Clarity Act Odds Jump to 31% as Trump Agrees to Ethics Provisions
Summary: Odds for the Clarity Act passing surged to 31% after President Trump agreed to updated ethics provisions, a key demand from Senate Democrats ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote.
Summary: Odds for the Clarity Act passing surged to 31% after President Trump agreed to updated ethics provisions, a key demand from Senate Democrats ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote.
Summary: CoinMarketCap’s Alice Liu notes that Binance’s launch of real-world asset perpetuals has rapidly captured market share and liquidity previously dominated by Hyperliquid.
Summary: World Trade Organization official Juan Marchetti states that fragmented regulatory frameworks, not technology, are the primary constraint on stablecoin adoption in international finance.
Summary: New firm Orange Juice plans to acquire profitable US businesses and direct excess cash flow into Bitcoin, offering a decorrelated alternative to capital-market-driven corporate treasuries.
Summary: The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now requires cryptocurrency hardware and software wallet providers to report actively exploited bugs within 24 hours of awareness.
Summary: SEBI and RBI launched Demat 2.0, a pilot tokenizing corporate bonds on NSDL and CDSL ledgers, with three issuers raising 1,025 crore rupees.
Summary: Beijing rejected warnings from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Tesla leaders about rapid AI development, labeling their concerns disruptive to global governance.
Summary: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis recovered 15 Bitcoin from a recent bridge exploit and is offering a 20% bounty for further asset recovery information.
Summary: Bitcoin Suisse plans to relocate up to 60 back-office roles from Zug to Bratislava or Vietnam as it shifts toward global wealth management.
Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority is exploring a bespoke regulatory regime for tokenized gold, potentially exempting such products from certain fund rules to facilitate collateral use.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $462.7 million in net outflows last week, reversing prior inflows, while Ether ETFs attracted nearly $197 million.
Summary: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that companies should not have veto power over tokenized stock products that do not alter shareholder rights or official ledgers.
Summary: Senate Republicans released revised CLARITY Act text with new ethics rules and stablecoin provisions, aiming to secure Democratic support before a procedural vote.
Summary: Threat actors leaked Revolut customer identities and transaction records, demanding payment while threatening daily releases of sensitive personal and Bitcoin data.
Summary: Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that AI agents account for a small fraction of Coinbase's x402 protocol volume, challenging assumptions about autonomous commerce adoption.
Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development to prevent loss of control, a stance endorsed by Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Summary: Revolut disclosed that sensitive customer information, including passports and transaction histories, was exposed after fraudulent requests from a spoofed government domain bypassed authentication checks.
Summary: Reuters reports Nvidia is negotiating a $10 billion investment in Anthropic, which aims to raise up to $100 billion in an offering that could value the AI firm at $2 trillion.
Summary: A comparative test of OpenAI's new ChatGPT Images 2.5 and Google's Nano Banana 2 resulted in a three-to-three tie, with each model excelling in different categories.
Summary: OKX announced FLOCK/USDT perpetual futures across web, app and API interfaces, with region-specific availability conditions.