The crypto industry’s chief effort in U.S. policy — the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — has remained held up on a point about stablecoin yield that has little to do with the bill’s central aim to regulate U.S. crypto markets. It’s still a sticking point as bankers fired the latest volley to claim the…
Congressmen Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Max Miller (R-Ohio) re-introduced their Digital Asset Protection, Accountability, Regulation, Innovation, Taxation and Yields (PARITY) Act late last month, seeking to update how the U.S. addresses crypto and taxes. Congress is going to address taxes (in general) in the coming months, and crypto may end up part of this. It’s…
Circle Internet (CRCL) CEO Jeremy Allaire offered his clearest public response yet to growing criticism over how the stablecoin issuer handles illicit funds, saying it does not freeze wallets unless there is a formal legal basis to do so. Speaking on stage at a press conference in Seoul, Allaire positioned USDC, the second-largest dollar-pegged stablecoin,…
The White House’s main crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, said that work is still being done to lock in the compromise that he thinks will move the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act forward in the U.S. Senate, though he said several other points are also being worked out behind the scenes. In an interview on CoinDesk…
Listed cryptocurrency firm Exodus Movement (EXOD) is suing W3C, the parent company of crypto card and payments specialists Baanx and Monovate, and its chief executive, Garth Howat, to complete its $175 million acquisition of W3C, agreed in November of last year. A lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeks to compel Howat to comply…
Weekend panics followed by Monday reversals have become the norm in 2026, and the action over the last 48 hours has continued that pattern. Down about 4% from late Saturday night into early Monday morning on news that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance had left Pakistan without an Iran peace deal and President Trump’s ordering…
RAVE, the native token of RaveDAO, has surged more than 6,000% over the past month, capping off one of the most explosive rallies in the crypto market this year and reigniting debate about speculative excesses in digital assets. The token jumped 198% in the last 24 hours alone and more than 5,600% over the past…
Tom Duff Gordon, the vice president of international policy at U.S.-listed cryptocurrency platform Coinbase (COIN), has left the firm for pastures green. Duff Gordon, who had been with Coinbase for close to 4 years, left the exchange to join OpenAI as head of EMEA Policy, a Coinbase spokesperson said via email. Duff Gordon had previously…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that software that sets up user interfaces allowing crypto securities to be transacted through individuals’ wallets won’t need to be registered and regulated as a broker. In the latest of the agency’s staff statements on crypto — now a wide-ranging list of views meant to allow the crypto…
Crypto exchange Kraken is facing an extortion attempt by a criminal group that threatens to release videos purportedly showing access to internal systems containing client data, the company said Monday. The Wyoming-based firm said it identified and shut down two instances of inappropriate access tied to individuals within its support team, each involving limited client…
