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CLARITY Act Odds Fall to 50% as Senate Calendar Puts Crypto Bill at Risk: Galaxy Research
Senate timing constraints have weakened the CLARITY Act’s outlook as lawmakers face a crowded agenda before the August recess. Galaxy Digital’s research lowered its 2026 passage estimate to a 50-50 chance, citing no floor date, no motion to…
SpaceX Lands Nasdaq-100 Spot Weeks After Record IPO
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is joining the Nasdaq-100 and FTSE Russell’s U.S. equity indexes less than a month after its record-breaking IPO, placing the newly public aerospace giant in some of the market’s most closely watched benchmarks. SpaceX…
Caleb & Brown Adds Ripple Payments for Faster USD Withdrawals
Caleb & Brown has implemented Ripple Payments to enable quicker U.S. dollar withdrawals for its brokerage clients, integrating Ripple’s network into fiat transfers to bridge crypto settlement speed with traditional banking systems.…
CLARITY Act Faces Narrow Senate Window as Midterm Election Calendar Tightens
A narrowing congressional calendar ahead of the midterm elections is putting pressure on Senate leaders to advance the CLARITY Act. Stand With Crypto, which represents more than one million members and supporters, warns that if Senate…
Polymarket Confirms Hackers Drained $3 Million From Users After Third-Party Breach
Prediction-market platform Polymarket said hackers stole roughly $3 million from users after a third-party vendor was compromised and malicious code was injected into its website. The incident has since been fully contained, and refunds are…
Jeff Bezos Wants Earth as a ‘Garden Planet’ by Moving Heavy Industry to Space
Speaking at VivaTech, Jeff Bezos argued that shifting heavy, polluting manufacturing off Earth and into space could free the planet to become a “garden planet.” The Blue Origin founder has tied the long-term idea to Gerard O’Neill’s 1970s…
Gomining Mines First Live Stratum V2 Bitcoin Block, Shifting Control to Miners
Digital mining firm Gomining said it mined the first live Bitcoin block using the Stratum V2 protocol via the DMND mining pool. A Milestone for Miner Autonomy Digital mining firm Gomining revealed Thursday, June 25, that it successfully…
Spark Seeds $150M Into Uniswap v4 to Build Shared FX Layer for Stablecoins
On Thursday, Spark and Uniswap revealed the launch of a Stablecoin FX Layer, a shared liquidity infrastructure built on Uniswap v4 designed to enable low-slippage swaps between dollar-pegged stablecoins for institutions, banks, fintechs,…
Oobit Integrates Pix: How the Tether-Backed App is Bringing USDT to 170 Million Brazilians
The payments company announced on Tuesday native integration with Brazil’s fast payment network Pix, allowing users to purchase and spend USDT with Oobit’s platform. The action targets a market of over 170 million users part of the Pix…
New Crypto Giant? SBI’s Bitbank Deal Could Create Japan’s Largest Crypto Exchange
SBI Holdings is moving to buy Bitbank in a deal that could reshape Japan’s crypto exchange market. The planned takeover, involving regulatory review, would combine Bitbank with SBI VC Trade and potentially create the country’s largest…