The Senate couldn't deliver regulatory clarity, but the market already knew what mattered: dollar liquidity, not legislation. Bitcoin social volume spiked during the failed CLARITY Act cloture vote, which failed to reach the required 60 votes on September 15, while BTC hovered around $76,000-$77,800
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The payment rails AI agents actually use just got a stablecoin and a legacy crypto asset, which means the automated economy now speaks XRP whether you like it or not.
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The Fed's about to raise rates for the first time in three years, but the real story is what's happening in stablecoin regulation while everyone watches the inflation fight.
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Wall Street is waking up onchain, and it's not just sitting in wallets. Tokenized stock TVL in DeFi protocols surged 1,961% over the past year to $247.8 million, per Token Terminal data published Thursday
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DeFi's biggest lending protocol is building the bridge Wall Street has been waiting for. Aave Labs is proposing an RWA Hub on Avalanche where institutions can borrow Tether's USA₮ stablecoin against tokenized real-world assets as collateral
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The banking rails that turn USDC into Visa charges just picked a default blockchain, and it's not Ethereum.
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The first rate hike in three years was priced in, but crypto's real problem is what comes next: 16 of 18 Fed officials expect at least one more before year-end.
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The crypto industry's best shot at regulatory certainty just died in the Senate, and now everyone gets to find out what "prolonged uncertainty" actually costs.
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After 12 years of treating every coffee purchase with Bitcoin like a stock trade, Congress just voted to make crypto work like actual money.
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The fight over who gets to pay interest on dollars just moved from Congress back to the regulators who never wanted to share power in the first place.
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Wall Street just deployed its own blockchain, and crypto degens are already at the gates with meme coins. Circle's Arc mainnet went live with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and 8 other institutions running validator nodes in a permissioned proof-of-authority setup
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Circle's CEO just said the company's new blockchain matters more than the $50 billion stablecoin that made Circle a household name. Circle launched Arc mainnet, a blockchain where USDC is the native gas token and supports 20+ fiat stablecoins with connections to 20+ chains
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Germany's largest bank is about to make holding crypto as boring as holding bonds, which is exactly what institutional money has been waiting for.
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Congress just told every validator and miner in America: we'll make your coffee purchases easier to track, but your actual business model stays taxed like a W-2 job.
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When your wallet starts looking like Charles Schwab, you're watching the bridge from Web3 to tradfi collapse in real time. Bitget Wallet now offers 1,700 tokenized U.S. stocks through Reality, its own in-house issuer, joining existing providers Ondo and xStocks in the self-custodial wallet
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While Silicon Valley debates whether crypto is dead, a stablecoin infrastructure company just raised $17-20M to make international payments work the way they should have all along.
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Two colliding policy events are about to tell us whether crypto is a real asset class or just another risk-off trade. Bitcoin dropped toward $77,800 as the Senate prepares to vote on the CLARITY Act, while traders price in a near-certain Fed rate hike with odds hitting 60% after strong jobs data
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The pipes matter more than the water flowing through them—and someone just raised $20 million to prove it. Fin.com exits stealth with $20M seed funding from Expa and Coinbase Ventures to build global stablecoin settlement infrastructure
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Tether can freeze your stablecoins faster than any court can decide if they should. Tether froze $61.19 million across 10 Tron addresses in 2025 allegedly connected to Iranian oil sales, and now the DOJ wants formal forfeiture.
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Markets are pricing in regulatory certainty before Congress even votes on it. XRP jumped 8.42% to $1.47 and XLM surged 8.44% to $0.1949 ahead of Tuesday's Senate procedural vote on the CLARITY Act, which would split crypto oversight between the SEC and CFTC
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