India is dragging crypto into the spotlight, with Parliament set to question the RBI as ED raids and tax notices pile up. The hearing could shape how India handles VDAs, stablecoins, remittances, and the messy business of taxing and policing a massive market.
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The U.S. is steering toward regulated private stablecoins as its digital dollar layer while blocking a retail Fed CBDC, a move that favors USDC and USDT but keeps privacy, control, and reserve-risk debates very much alive.
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The Senate’s CLARITY Act is getting hit from all sides: Trump-linked ethics concerns, law enforcement resistance to DeFi carveouts, and a fast-growing fight over whether prediction markets are financial contracts or just regulated gambling in a nicer suit.
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Trump’s crypto ties are turning the CLARITY Act into a Senate ethics brawl, with Democrats demanding guardrails before backing a bill meant to finally define U.S. crypto regulation. The policy may be workable; the politics are a flaming dumpster fire.
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Ripple’s bank-style push is looking like a win for regulated infrastructure and RLUSD first, not a guaranteed moonshot for XRP. The company may gain legitimacy and reach, but direct token demand is still unproven — a reminder that in crypto, the hype and the plumbing are often not the same thing.
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Ethereum’s options market is turning defensive, with recent trading leaning into downside protection, while Solana stays balanced and XRP shows a modest upside tilt. The split suggests traders are hedging ETH, waiting on SOL, and taking a cautious but constructive view on XRP.
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Senator Cynthia Lummis is pushing the CLARITY Act toward a Senate vote, but July will decide whether it advances or gets buried in procedural sludge. The bill faces tough fights over AML rules, ethics concerns, and deposit-like crypto products.
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BitMine added another 160,480 ETH to staking as its Russell 1000 inclusion approaches, boosting yield on a massive Ethereum treasury. The move may attract index-fund demand, but it also deepens the company’s already heavy ETH concentration.
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Strategy’s Bitcoin treasury play is under pressure as both MSTR and STRC weaken, making it harder and more expensive to raise capital for more BTC. No forced selling yet — but the financing engine is clearly sputtering, and the market is no longer handing out free lunch terms.
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Base went offline for nearly two hours after a consensus problem stopped block production, but said user funds were safe and the network has since recovered. The outage arrives just as Base readies its Beryl upgrade and a tougher test of its reliability.
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