Democrats Want Jail Time for DeFi Developers in Crypto Bill
The first real crypto bill with a shot at passing just got 100+ amendments, and 15 of them want to criminalize writing code.
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Judge Blocks Musk's $1.5M SEC Deal as Suspiciously Cheap
When the world's richest man tries to settle with the SEC for pocket change, even federal judges smell something off. A federal judge rejected a $1.5 million settlement between Elon Musk and the SEC over his delayed disclosure of his Twitter stake in 2022, citing "red flags"
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Wall Street's $15B Bet: Tokenized Treasuries Surge as Bitcoin Freezes
The flight to safety is happening on-chain now. Tokenized U.S. Treasury products crossed $15.35 billion as macro uncertainty drives capital toward yield-bearing stablecoins and Treasury tokens instead of bitcoin
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246-Year-Old French Bank Ditches SWIFT for Stablecoins
The bank that launched the first covered bond in 1769 just decided blockchain settlements beat SWIFT rails. Societe Generale is deploying its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on Canton Network for tokenized collateral, repo financing, and institutional settlement.
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Ethereum Hits $2.3K While Wall Street Puts Billions on Its Rails
The same week JPMorgan and BlackRock put tokenized funds on Ethereum rails, the asset itself can't break $2,400. ETH touched $2,300 before sliding back to $2,250, with resistance at $2,400 holding firm despite multiple attempts
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Banks Cave on Stablecoin Yields After Senate Pressure
The banks blinked first. Senator Bernie Moreno is pushing the revised CLARITY Act through Senate markup with key amendments on stablecoin yield and tokenized securities, calling out traditional banks for "panic-lobbying" against it.
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Ethereum Just Matched Solana's $45B Trading Volume War
The horse race is dead even, which means the real competition is just starting. Ethereum and Solana DEX volumes have converged near $45 billion, erasing Solana's previous dominance in decentralized exchange trading activity.
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Japan's MicroStrategy Clone Posts $725M Loss Despite 283% Operating Profit Surge
When your operating profit jumps 283% but you still post a three-quarter-billion-dollar loss, you're learning what it really means to put bitcoin on the balance sheet.
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Bitcoin NFT Explorer Ord.io Shuts Down After Running Out of Money
The infrastructure for Bitcoin NFTs is dying before most people realized it was alive. Ord.io, a major Bitcoin Ordinals explorer, and its consumer app Zap are shutting down June 1 due to financial challenges
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Bitwise CIO: Two Federal Laws Just Unlocked Trillions in Tokenized Capital
The playbook for tokenizing the world just went from theory to deployed capital, and Washington might actually help instead of hinder.
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South Korea May Tax AI Companies to Pay Every Citizen
When AI profits pile up faster than a country can tax them, somebody's going to suggest splitting the check. South Korea is debating a "citizen dividend" funded by taxes on AI company profits as its tech sector experiences a profit boom
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Japan's Enterprise Blockchain Just Weaponized Boring to Beat Crypto
Japan just made stablecoins boring on purpose, and that's exactly the point. Japan Open Chain is launching a yen-backed stablecoin designed exclusively for B2B settlements, not retail speculation.
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Wall Street Just Bet $1B That Public Blockchains Are Dead
Wall Street wants blockchain, just not your blockchain. Three institutional blockchain platforms — Arc, Canton, and Tempo — have collectively raised over $1 billion, signaling that privacy infrastructure is becoming the primary institutional on-ramp to crypto
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OpenAI Sued for Wrongful Death After Chatbot Advised Shooter
When your chatbot becomes evidence in a wrongful death suit, you're no longer building tools — you're building co-defendants. The widow of a Florida mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI, claiming the company "knew this would happen"
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XRP Becomes South Korea's Most-Traded Crypto, Beating Bitcoin and Ethereum
When Korean retail shows up in force for a single token, you're either looking at the start of a run or the end of one. XRP/KRW became the most traded pair on Upbit and second on Bithumb, surpassing both bitcoin and ether volumes on South Korea's largest exchanges
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ONDO Hit $1B in Tokenized Stocks While Wall Street Slept
Eight months to a billion dollars proves tokenized equities aren't a pilot project anymore. Ondo Global Markets hit $1 billion in total value locked across tokenized stocks and ETFs in just eight months, capturing 70% market share in the tokenized equity sector.
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SocGen's Dollar Stablecoin Just Hit Millions of Retail Wallets
A top-five European bank just put its dollar stablecoin in front of millions of retail wallets—this isn't a pilot anymore. Societe Generale is expanding its USD stablecoin to millions of crypto wallet users, marking one of the largest bank-led pushes to bring institutional digital money to retail
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Charles Schwab Opens Bitcoin Trading to Retail Clients After Years of Resistance
The last major holdout just flipped the switch on crypto for millions of accounts that used to only touch blue chips and bond ladders. Charles Schwab launched "Schwab Crypto" to its first wave of eligible retail clients, offering spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading starting Tuesday
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JPMorgan Files Second Ethereum Fund as Wall Street Races for Stablecoin Infrastructure
Wall Street's biggest banks are now in an arms race to own the plumbing underneath stablecoins. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury money market fund on Ethereum powered by Kinexys Digital Assets, investing in US Treasuries and overnight repos.
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Frozen $71M in Terror Case—Judge Just Let DAO Vote Anyway
A Manhattan judge just gave DAOs legal permission to govern, even when the assets they're voting on are frozen in a terrorism lawsuit.
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