The White House is pressing Senate Democrats to accept a newly negotiated ethics package covering President Donald Trump and help pass the CLARITY Act during final negotiations over the United States’ cryptocurrency market structure bill. Administration officials are portraying the agreement as a major concession by Trump, whose family’s digital-asset interests have become the central
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that dollar-pegged stablecoins slip past the capital controls emerging-market governments rely on, handing households and firms a route into the dollar that regulators cannot easily close. In the working paper, published on Tuesday, BIS economists Boris Hofmann, Aaron Mehrotra and Jan Paulick compared “stablecoin dollarization” with conventional deposit
Galaxy Digital launched the Galaxy Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative on July 21, committing up to $5 million in grant funding to developers building post-quantum defenses for a network whose cryptography a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could one day break. The program pairs that funding with a dedicated research arm and a council of quantum experts,
President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to an ethics package for the CLARITY Act, removing one of the most significant obstacles facing the United States’ proposed cryptocurrency market structure legislation. The White House circulated the agreed language to selected Senate Republicans on July 20, according to multiple industry sources cited by journalist Eleanor Terrett. Details
U.S. spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds recorded another day of positive inflows on July 20, with both Bitcoin and Ethereum investment products attracting fresh institutional capital despite continued market volatility. Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a combined net inflow of approximately $181 million, marking another positive session for the asset class after a strong recovery in demand
SEC Regulation Crypto: The US Securities and Exchange Commission could publish its first crypto-specific rule proposal at any time after adding Regulation Crypto Assets to its rulemaking priority agenda on July 7 with a July 2026 target. The roughly 400-page draft has been pending at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs since
Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy have abandoned the three-way merger Tether proposed in April, with Jack Mallers stepping down as Twenty One Capital’s chief executive and Elektron chief Raphael Zagury taking over the role. The reversal unwinds a plan meant to fold Bitcoin treasury holdings, crypto trading, and mining into a single Tether-backed
Russia Crypto Bill Passes Final Duma Readings Why Is Russia Advancing Crypto Rules Now? Russia’s lower house of parliament has moved the country closer to its first comprehensive crypto market framework after approving a bill that would regulate digital asset activity and allow crypto assets to be used in foreign trade operations. The State Duma
Cardano activated its van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, completing the network’s first protocol upgrade whose final approval and execution were determined entirely through its decentralized onchain governance system. The upgrade took effect at 21:44:51 UTC at the boundary of epoch 644, corresponding to Cardano slot 192,844,800. It moved the blockchain to Protocol
U.S. spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds finished the trading week on a positive note Friday, July 17, with both Bitcoin and Ethereum products recording net inflows as investors continued allocating capital to regulated digital-asset investment vehicles. Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted a combined $132.3 million in net inflows, extending the market’s recent recovery after experiencing mixed flows