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Kevin Warsh has cleared a Senate committee, and markets are already doing what markets do best: speculating first and asking questions later. The move has traders eyeing a possible Federal Reserve leadership change, with implications for interest rates, inflation, liquidity, and Bitcoin. Warsh clears a Senate hurdle in the Fed leadership conversation Markets are pricing […]
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Senate Banking Committee advances Warsh for Fed Chair, Powell’s exit likely The Federal Reserve is back in the spotlight, with the Senate Banking Committee reportedly moving Kevin Warsh closer to a possible Fed Chair role while Jerome Powell’s departure looks increasingly likely. That’s not just Beltway drama — it could matter for interest rates, inflation, […]
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Bain & Company says stablecoins have moved well past crypto trading chatter and into the plumbing of wholesale banking, where speed, liquidity, and settlement actually matter. $320 billion stablecoin market now looks like real financial infrastructure “Great rewiring of wholesale banking” through stablecoins and tokenized deposits Instant, programmable settlement versus slow legacy payment rails U.S. […]
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Meta has quietly returned to crypto payments, and this time it’s doing it the sensible way: paying a small group of Facebook creators in Colombia and the Philippines with USDC instead of trying to launch its own money-printing moonshot. Meta is testing USDC creator payouts in Colombia and the Philippines Payments move over Solana and […]
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Bitcoin Developers Are Not Federal Targets, Blanche and Patel Say at Las Vegas Conference U.S. officials gave open-source Bitcoin and crypto developers a rare bit of clarity in Las Vegas: writing code is not the crime, unless you knowingly help criminals use it that way. DOJ softens stance: no more “regulation by prosecution” for neutral […]
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Bitcoin is still looking cheap to a lot of investors, even with BTC trading below $80,000 and the wider economy flashing warning signs like a dashboard lit up by a bad mechanic. 75% of institutions say Bitcoin is undervalued Spot Bitcoin ETFs keep pulling in capital Macro risk and Fed uncertainty are still the main […]
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DeFi just absorbed another hard hit and, somehow, the broader market barely noticed: roughly $300 million was raised for Kelp’s rsETH holders after an exploit, while ETH’s price stayed largely unchanged. That’s both impressive and a little unsettling. It shows the ecosystem can move fast when trouble hits, but it also reminds everyone that “trustless” […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried has been knocked back again, with a federal judge rejecting his bid for a retrial in the FTX fraud case and refusing to buy the defense’s claims about “newly discovered” evidence, witness testimony, or government pressure. Retrial denied by Judge Lewis Kaplan No valid “new evidence” found Witnesses were already known before trial […]
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Visa has pushed stablecoin settlement deeper into real payment infrastructure, adding five more blockchains and lifting its annualized run rate to $7 billion. Five new chains: Polygon, Base, Arc, Canton, and Tempo Nine networks total: Visa’s stablecoin settlement program keeps broadening $7 billion run rate: Annualized stablecoin settlement volume is up more than 50% in […]
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Visa is pushing stablecoins further into mainstream finance, expanding its settlement pilot to nine blockchains as annualized volume hits $7 billion and growth runs at a hefty 50% quarter over quarter. 9 blockchains now supported $7 billion annualized volume 50% quarter-over-quarter growth Stablecoins moving deeper into payments rails For anyone still pretending stablecoins are just […]
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