The U.S. is making a serious bid to reclaim the crypto companies it spent three years chasing offshore. SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the Senate will pass the CLARITY Act on September 15, marking the first comprehensive federal crypto framework after years of regulation-by-enforcement
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While Western economies scramble to navigate energy volatility, Asia just proved that fiscal discipline plus infrastructure bets equals resilience when markets fracture.
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The first billion is validation. The second billion is when the banks start sweating. Sentora's vaults on Morpho crossed $1B in total deposits, marking a milestone for DeFi infrastructure built on real-world asset yields
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Licensing blockchain infrastructure just became a $360,000-per-month business for Arbitrum, and nobody saw it coming.
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Washington wants to defend the dollar with the same tech it spent years trying to regulate into submission. Circle President Heath Tarbert testified before Congress advocating stablecoin regulation as a tool to maintain US dollar dominance in digital finance
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The institutions that spent a decade calling crypto a scam just committed to shipping their own dollar token in 18 months.
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The company that promises "no freeze without legal process" just got sued for allegedly doing exactly that—three months early. Two Thai businessmen claim Tether froze $42.4 million in USDT from their wallets more than three months before U.S. authorities obtained a seizure warrant
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The same rails moving money to abuela in Guatemala are now being repurposed to compete with Chase and Goldman. Félix (also called Felix Pago) closed a $200M Series B led by a16z to expand beyond WhatsApp-based remittances into lending and savings products
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Cathie Wood is doubling down on the thesis that payments infrastructure eating the world is a bet on Bitcoin eating payments infrastructure. Ark Invest purchased 456,059 shares of Block Inc across three ETFs, totaling $37 million, plus $3.4 million in Circle stock
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Russia's largest bank is about to turn $46 billion in crypto trading volume into a collateral machine, while a U.S. lender just made tokenized gold borrowable.
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The people who used to laugh at Bitcoin are now building its next rally, and that changes everything about who wins. Institutional investors are returning to Bitcoin after a period of retreat, signaling renewed confidence in crypto markets
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When the Treasury Secretary tries to bluff the bond market and the crypto world calls his hand, everybody sees your cards. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to ramp up buybacks of long-dated government debt, a move Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead says backfired spectacularly
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Traditional finance companies spent years pretending crypto didn't exist, then they built the fastest-growing corner of it.
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Enterprise finance is about to learn what DeFi natives already know: moving money shouldn't take three days and cost $40. Kast raised $80M and launched a stablecoin-powered business platform targeting enterprise finance operations
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The remittance industry just got its first credible challenger to Western Union's 175-year stranglehold, and it's running on code instead of physical storefronts. Felix Pago raised $200M in Series B led by a16z to scale stablecoin-based remittances and expand AI-powered financial services
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DeFi insurance covers 0.1% of the market, and the people with the most to steal know it. Firelight raised $8 million to build cover protocol for DeFi vaults, expanding beyond its initial XRP focus to include bitcoin and Stellar
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Bitcoin's best month in 20 months is running into a wall built from rising rates, a crashing yen, and the market pricing in monetary tightening nobody saw coming three weeks ago.
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The same regulatory arbitrage that built offshore finance just went on-chain, and it's starting with the most Bitcoin-obsessed public companies on Earth.
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The remittance corridor just became a full-service financial rails play, and the stakes are $200 million big. Felix Pago raised $200 million to move beyond money transfers into lending and savings for Latin American immigrants in the US
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When your collateral is more valuable than the rules that govern it, someone will notice.
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