GENIUS Act: the July 2028 door swings shut on Tether
Everyone's watching the January 2027 start date. The line that matters comes eighteen months later: from July 2028, US exchanges may only offer stablecoins from licensed issuers.
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CFTC Commissions Its Wing of the Building
CLARITY Act Senate fight
The CLARITY Act is moving through an increasingly narrow Senate window toward a floor vote as ethics disputes, opposition coalitions, and shifting passage odds keep the bill's fate uncertain.
Latest: CFTC Chair Selig puts staff on notice to draft crypto market-structure rules if CLARITY stalls — "rules one way or another" — while Trump and Armstrong campaign to restore a Sept 15 vote (Armstrong: 60+ votes); the bill's fate and the agency framework now race each other openly
HYPE options: the four-hour head start
Forget the price jump. Look at the clock. Around 11am, someone spent $65,000 on cheap call options in Hyperliquid's listed treasury company — a contract almost nobody traded. Four hours later, the President named Hyperliquid at the White…
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Cash equivalent: the third licence line this week
An accounting rule sounds like the dullest news of the week. It may be the most consequential.
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Reg Crypto: the graduation clause
The clever bit isn't the $75 million fundraising exemption. It's the graduation clause.
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The Rally Wasn't About Crypto
This week Washington drew two licence lines, hosted the industry at the White House, and put a regulator on notice to write crypto's rulebook. Bitcoin rose 21%. It's tempting to connect them.
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Strategy: that's not a profit, it's weather"
A $1.4 billion paper profit on 840,447 coins sounds like vindication. It's a gain of about 2%.
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Swift Ledger: settlement still runs the old rails
Read past the word "blockchain" and here's what actually happened. Swift's new ledger matched and netted the two banks' obligations. Then the money moved through the same payment pipes it always has.
Read more →Grayscale Files to Convert Its Zcash Trust
Grayscale's fourth S-3/A would list the Zcash Trust on NYSE Arca as ZCSH — potentially the first US spot privacy-coin ETF — while disclosing non-binding talks for a DCG subsidiary to seed it with ~200,000 ZEC (~$110M)
Binance: you can't withdraw your KYC
A Russian IT worker sent about $700 — the price of a phone — to Ukrainian fundraisers. Binance sent Russian investigators his transaction history, his address, his phone number and copies of his passports. He's in jail awaiting trial for…
Read more →MSCI Comes Back for Strategy — Round Two
MSCI opens a new consultation on "non-operating companies" — the reframed test catches Strategy, Metaplanet and uranium-holder Yellow Cake in its deletion simulation, neutralizing the "discrimination" defense that won round one; feedback closes Sept 30, decision ~Oct 16, ~$2.8B of passive MSTR flows at stake
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