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Congress Strikes Housing-Bill Deal That Bans Fed CBDC Through 2030

Congressional negotiators folded a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency into the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, blocking any…
Institutional

CoinMENA, Standard Chartered partner on UAE payment rails

CoinMENA will use Standard Chartered to strengthen fiat payment rails in the UAE, while Revolut reportedly secured central bank licenses ahead of a planned local…
AI

Coinbase Enters the Tokenized Stock Race With 1:1-Backed Onchain Shares as Part of a Sweeping ‘Everything Exchange’ Push

Coinbase unveiled tokenized US stocks backed one-for-one with automatic dividends, alongside options trading, pre-IPO and thematic perpetual futures, an SEC-registered AI advisor, and a USDC-backed…
Institutional

Senators urge Treasury ensure state authority in GENIUS application

A bipartisan group of US senators told the Treasury that its application of stablecoin laws should be done in a way that “preserves and promotes…
DeFi

Solstice’s Ryan Day on why sustainable DeFi yield depends on business fundamentals, not token incentives

Crypto yield has always carried a credibility problem. The same market that learned to demand proof after incentive-heavy protocols unwound still tends to compress risk…
Institutional

U.S. senators urge Treasury not to leave states out of GENIUS Act stablecoin process

Senators led by Republican Cynthia Lummis are insisting the Treasury Department ensure states get a process to prove their ability to supervise stablecoins. Read Full…
Markets

Tether Gold now has a dedicated options market on Bybit

These options, settled in USDT, let traders hedge risk, speculate on gold prices. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Payments

Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more than a million users across…
AI

SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M

A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN’s total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and gutting the BNB Chain AI…
Institutional

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

The Layer 1’s gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional…