Half of crypto holders don't know their trades are taxable, and that's a $50 billion IRS problem waiting to happen. Only 49% of crypto investors correctly understand that selling crypto is a taxable event, according to Coinbase and CoinTracker's 2026 Crypto Tax Readiness Report
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Midas just raised $50M to fix the thing that keeps institutional money out of tokenized funds: you can't get your cash back fast enough. Midas secured $50M to build instant redemption infrastructure for tokenized asset funds
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The CLARITY Act's developer protections might be the most important part of the bill, but everyone's too busy arguing about stablecoin yield to notice. Senator Lummis claims the CLARITY Act includes the "strongest" developer protections for crypto builders in U.S. legislative history
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The CLARITY Act just died in the Senate, and the crypto industry's window for regulatory certainty may have closed with it. The CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate after banks, crypto firms, and lawmakers couldn't agree on key provisions, including whether stablecoin issuers can pay yields
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Stablecoins just processed more annual volume than Visa and Mastercard combined, and most businesses still think crypto is for speculation. Stablecoin trading volume hit $33 trillion in 2025, with Bloomberg forecasting $56.6 trillion by 2030
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Meta's betting that the real AI glasses market isn't tech early adopters—it's the 164 million Americans who already wear glasses every day. Meta is launching two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week designed specifically for prescription lens wearers
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Stablecoins are having a regulatory identity crisis while institutions quietly build the rails underneath them. Regulatory pressure is mounting on stablecoins as prediction markets face new compliance requirements, but institutional adoption continues accelerating
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Tether just hired the auditors it's spent years avoiding. Tether has hired KPMG for its first full independent audit of USDT reserves, ending years of opaque attestations that never qualified as real audits
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Coinbase's political arm just drew the midterm battlefield map, and it's not about left versus right. Stand With Crypto endorses six candidates across both parties for November 2026 midterms, including Republicans Zach Nunn (Iowa) and Mike Lawler (New York)
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The government just legitimized your Bitcoin as a down payment, and nobody seems to realize what door just opened. Coinbase and Better are launching crypto-backed mortgages with Fannie Mae backing, letting borrowers use Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral without selling
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Circle lost $5 billion in a day because Congress decided stablecoin holders don't deserve interest. Circle's stock dropped 20% on Tuesday, wiping out $5 billion in market cap after a new CLARITY Act draft proposed banning passive yield on stablecoin balances
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Elon Musk just hired a DeFi veteran to design X's payment product, and that tells you exactly where this is heading. X hired Benji Taylor, former chief product officer at Aave and design lead at Base, as head of design
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Michael Saylor isn't just winning the corporate bitcoin race anymore. He's running it alone. Strategy now accounts for nearly all recent corporate bitcoin purchases, with other firms' share collapsing from 95% to roughly 2% according to CryptoQuant data
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Bitget Wallet just built a bridge between crypto's oldest promise and its newest infrastructure, and the names on the roster tell you everything about where stablecoin rails are heading.
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Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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DeFi printed $8 billion in onchain yield last year, but half the money sitting in Ethereum stablecoins is earning less than a risk-free T-bill. DeFi protocols generated $8 billion in onchain yield in 2025, driven primarily by borrowing demand, trading fees, and perpetual funding rates
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Japan's biggest financial institutions just wrote a $63 million check to tokenize their own industry. Startale Group closed a $63 million Series A, combining $50 million from SBI Group with $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund
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Sky's stablecoin incubator just put a billion dollars of USDS to work in the real world, and it's not going where you think. Obex, a Sky-backed stablecoin incubator, is deploying $1B in USDS into eight real-world asset projects spanning mortgages, AI infrastructure, and renewable energy.
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Japan's biggest financial institution just dropped $50M on blockchain infrastructure—not for speculation, but for real securities moving on-chain. Startale closed a $63M Series A with $50M from SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial services conglomerates
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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