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Consumer focused financial technology company Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) is evaluating the addition of stablecoin-related tools to its mobile banking platform.
Mizuho slashed BitGo's price target to $11 from $14 but kept an Outperform. The CLARITY Act delay, usually a negative, could widen BitGo's regulatory lead over rivals, analysts said.
ECB survey of 8,205 eurozone companies: only 1% of physical stores accept crypto, while mobile payments hit 68% and cash remains at 92%.
On-chain data shows LEO up 8% after a bounce off $7.50-$8.50 support, with spot CVD still pointing to sellers ahead of the $9.55 resistance level.
SEC canceled a meeting on token offering rules, delaying crypto regulation until after the Senate's Clarity Act vote. Implementation could slip past the next election, sources say.
Greenlane's 81.3M BERA tokens lost 77% of cost. Nasdaq's $5M MVLS rule, stayed pending review, could force delisting without a cure period. Shares need a 273% rally.
The CLARITY Act faces a five-week Senate recess gap after Thune filed cloture on Aug. 8. Supporters say the delay gives opponents time to organize before the Sept. 15 vote.
OCC approved World Liberty Financial for a national charter. Sen. Warren calls it 'brazen self-dealing'. Trump's crypto earnings hit $1.1B.
Trump attends crypto CEO meeting Wednesday as the SEC's delayed exemption process and a stalled Senate bill leave the industry's regulatory path unclear.
The SEC postponed its crypto rulemaking meeting over Clarity Act concerns. The Senate vote is next month; the rulemaking phase could take close to a year.
Only 0.2% of euro area online sellers accept crypto or stablecoins, an ECB survey of 8,205 firms shows. Cash and cards dominate while mobile payments surged to 68% from 36% since 2024.
Gen Z accounts show the highest net accumulation rates on Binance's direct equities, bStocks and TradFi perpetuals, but trade less often than Millennials or Gen X, Binance Research found.
Crypto exchanges hit $250B in equity perpetual volume in July, up 17x from April. Binance leads with 76% share, while Gate grows 308% month-on-month. Concentration in AI-memory stocks.
Senate procedural vote on CLARITY Act set for Sept. 15. Banks oppose stablecoin rewards resembling interest. Prediction markets see 18.5% odds by 2026, down from prior weeks.
Tokenized ETF market cap surged 826% to $611.5M in 12 months. Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana lead, with BNB Chain adding $80.9M in a single month. Ondo Finance tops issuer volumes.
Robinhood Chain captured roughly 500,000 tokenized stock holders in six weeks, matching BNB Chain's total, as the category surged 447.5% to 1.4 million holders.
Changpeng Zhao will stop using his public wallet after a routine burn of spam tokens triggered a 30,000% surge in a dead coin's market cap. The address becomes a permanent burn wallet.
Wintermute filed for U.S. broker-dealer status the same week the Senate missed its third CLARITY Act target. NYSE's tokenized pilot runs on a time-limited SEC sandbox, unlike BlackRock and Mastercard's permanent regulatory footing.
BitGo's Q2 net loss narrowed to $19M as revenue surged 79.6% to $4.33B, but Digital Asset Sales margin halved. Management targets Q3 breakeven.
MUFG tests JGB repo settlement on blockchain via Canton Network. Japan's ¥250 trillion repo market could shift as a working group report due October.
Tokenized real-world assets borrow below face value due to securitization mechanics, risk policy, and thin liquidity. Centrifuge and MakerDAO structures enforce junior buffers and LTV caps that keep advance rates well under 100%.
The stablecoin market's 5% drawdown to near $300B is the third-largest on record but an orderly capital rotation, Cumberland says, with yield-bearing alternatives up 101%.
Kraken parent Payward spent $2.75B on NinjaTrader, Reap, and other acquisitions to own trading, payments, and derivatives. The integration risk is real: operating across multiple regulators and user bases.
A fake DefiLlama app in the Apple App Store drained a user's wallet. The real launch is on hold as the team adds authentication safeguards.
A BlockSec review finds single-key control, overlapping roles, and broken KYC in the Anchorpoint HKDAP contract, raising questions about regulatory oversight of deployed code.
Bits of Gold, Israel's regulated crypto broker, probes a data breach that may expose customer identity and financial details. Phishing risk rises as attackers could use the data for impersonation.
European regulators warn that fraudsters are exploiting the MiCA transition, impersonating officials to steal assets. More than 1,700 platforms shut down, leaving millions vulnerable.
DefiLlama founder 0xngmi says Apple took months to remove a fake wallet-draining app, forcing the team to delay its own iOS launch.
Revenue rose 17% to $508M, but adjusted EBITDA dropped to $23M from $80M. Platform accounts hit 6.6 million even as transaction volume fell 18% year over year.
Two DeFi incidents cost $29M through oracle misconfigurations, not hacks. Aave and Moonwell show how stale feeds and governance errors trigger automated liquidations.