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Oliver Gilbert won Florida's 24th district primary after Protect Progress spent over $2 million on attack ads using fake Miami Herald headlines. Fairshake won four of five races.
MiCA's compliance costs and stablecoin rules are pushing out smaller crypto firms and native startups, shifting market advantage to traditional banks. Evidence shows euro stablecoins, while safer, account for just 0.22% of the global market.
Securitize's AUM hit a record $4.3 billion and transaction volume surged 147%, but total revenue fell 5% as CFO Flores said most activity isn't monetized.
Bitwise Asset Management's crypto ETFs notched a $300M+ trading session, led by its Bitcoin fund BITB and the Solana staking fund BSOL, which pulled in $267M in H1 inflows.
Comptroller Gould says OCC will finalize GENIUS Act rules by November, enabling applications in early 2027. The agency missed a July deadline but aims to beat the law's effective date.
AIxCrypto Holdings plans an orderly exit from a $5.2M crypto portfolio marked 50% below cost amid a $7.94M first-half cash burn. The Nasdaq-listed firm's robotics pivot secured one paid order but has yet to disclose revenue or repeat demand.
Crypto PACs won four of five primaries on Tuesday despite a $2M Florida defeat. The CLARITY Act faces a Senate vote in September.
Bloomberg: OKX restricted Claude for Hong Kong staff after a temporary account suspension. The exchange spends $6M-$8M monthly on LLMs; Goldman faced similar.
Swift's first live transaction on a 24/7 blockchain ledger puts tokenized deposits against stablecoins as 17 banks prepare to scale the pilot.
Over 148,000 traders liquidated as BTC surged 5-6%, with shorts accounting for 90% of total liquidations. Elevated open interest above $127 billion suggests more volatility ahead.
Italy's CONSOB submitted 165 of 167 entries in ESMA's MiCA warning register. Germany's BaFin contributed zero. Two-thirds of stored web addresses no longer respond.
OKX upgrades its European card program with 50% cashback on Netflix and ChatGPT, paid in USDG. Tiered rewards reach 10% for VIPs, with a €800 monthly cap.
CryptoCapitalFund acquired 200M IBNAi tokens, representing 20% of the fixed supply, in open-market purchases over July and August. The tokens now sit in cold custody via Fireblocks.
TT's platform will connect to Crypto.com's OG.com exchange in Q4 2026, giving institutions direct access to regulated prediction markets and margin-based crypto futures.
Trump pushed Congress to pass a crypto market structure bill at a White House meeting with executives. The Clarity Act faces a September Senate vote needing 60 votes.
Trump urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act alongside Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Gemini co-founders, calling it a bipartisan bill to keep the US ahead of China in crypto.
The CFTC closed civil cases against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang. Both received trading and registration bans and must continue cooperating. The orders cap the regulator's enforcement against FTX and Alameda executives.
Perpetual futures with up to 50x leverage go live on Coinbase's Base App Wednesday. The move targets crypto's most active traders but exposes retail users to liquidation risks.
Grayscale Research sees Reg Crypto reopening token-based fundraising in the U.S. Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain could see more activity. The proposal must pass SEC rulemaking first.
President Trump's CLARITY Act endorsement pushed prediction-market odds of a 2026 crypto law to 25% from 20%. The bill, stalled in the Senate, faces an uncertain path through a crowded calendar.
Fairshake spent $3.6M on Tuesday's primaries; Gilbert won Florida's 24th despite $2M in opposition ads. The Senate returns in September to the CLARITY Act.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the market is mispricing blockchain's tokenization and AI agent boom, forecasting 50x to 100x on-chain volume growth. OCC stablecoin rules due Nov 2026.
ESMA's MiCA register lists 23 authorised stablecoin issuers with 43 white papers, but analysis finds two dead document links, missing currency fields, shared addresses and a lag of up to a week in updates.
A $1.31B short squeeze pushed Bitcoin above $68,000 and Ethereum past $2,000, fueled by Treasury buybacks and a White House crypto meeting. ETF inflows added fuel.
Galaxy Digital secured ERCOT approval for 830 MW at Helios, pushing total capacity past 1.6 GW. CEO Novogratz said the approval creates a competitive moat in AI infrastructure.
A misconfigured server exposed a fraud operation with 885K phone numbers, fake Trezor and Ledger apps, and a 13.6% hit rate on Crypto.com accounts. Rapid7 details the attack chain and implications for exchanges.
X suspended a network of accounts accused of stealing creators' content and extracting $250K from revenue sharing. Nikita Bier forwarded the case to law enforcement.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan made the case to White House officials and Wall Street leaders that moving $150 trillion in traditional assets on-chain is crypto's next growth phase. The Aug. 19 meeting also covered the CLARITY Act and CFTC innovation efforts.
Trump hosts Coinbase, Kraken, and Blockchain.com execs Wednesday as the long-awaited Clarity Act stalls until September. The SEC proposed its own crypto framework Tuesday.
HMRC sent 81,000 warning letters to crypto holders in the last year, a 25% jump. Token swaps are a blind spot. A new wave is due in July 2026.