CME and ICE press CFTC and Congress to put Hyperliquid under oversight. At stake: 700 million USD in daily oil perpetual volume.
Author: Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Since 2018, the editorial team at Crypto Valley Journal has been reporting from Zug - the heart of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley - on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and regulatory developments in digital assets. Behind the publication’s collective editorial voice is a team of writers with backgrounds in financial markets, law, and technology.
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What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Poland’s Sejm debates four MiCA bills while the Zondacrypto case puts Zug-based Divisio Holding AG at the center of a criminal probe.
The Clarity Act passes the US Senate Banking Committee 15-9. Ethics questions over the Trump family crypto businesses threaten passage.
The crypto market has recovered noticeably in recent weeks. On a year to date basis, however, the picture remains more selective. Bitcoin is still trading around 9% lower, while Ethereum remains under even greater pressure with losses of roughly 24%. The rebound points to a stabilization in risk appetite, but not yet to a broad based new bull market. This marks a key difference from the previous market phase. Capital is no longer flowing evenly back into the broader crypto sector. Instead, it is concentrating in the segments that are deepest in liquidity, most accessible to institutions, and most established…
Charles Schwab launches Schwab Crypto: spot trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum with a 75 basis point fee and Paxos as sub-custodian.
Circle secures USD 222 million for Arc blockchain: a16z leads the round, BlackRock and Apollo invest. FDV: USD 3 billion.
Descartes Finance is the first Swiss asset manager to systematically integrate Bitcoin into pillar 3a and vested benefits portfolios.
Saylor opens the door to Bitcoin sales: Strategy may cover dividends from BTC reserves if needed. The mNAV flywheel is under pressure.
JPMorgan sees Bitcoin ahead of gold in the debasement trade: GLD loses 2.7% AUM, IBIT gains 1.5% AUM since Iran war outbreak.
The CLARITY Act is set to shape the future market structure of digital assets in the United States. The Senate draft restricts stablecoin interest payments, preserves protocol-based incentives and strengthens protections for non-custodial developers. For DeFi, this would mark the most significant regulatory breakthrough in years. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) released the long-awaited language for Section 404 of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in early May. The move ends months of deadlock within the Senate Banking Committee, which had largely centered around one question: should stablecoin issuers or crypto platforms be allowed to distribute yield…
The Canton of Lucerne joins the Swiss Blockchain Federation as its seventh member canton, with 73 active blockchain companies.
FalconX and Sygnum open institutional access to tokenized credit via the Desygnate platform and the FalconX Credit Vault.
FINMA tightens consumer protection in crypto, grants first DLT license to BX Digital, and plans new license categories for stablecoin issuers.
Coinbase backs the CLARITY Act compromise on stablecoin rewards, now the Senate committee markup path opens, with passage likely.
CNB Governor Michl argues in Las Vegas for a 1% Bitcoin allocation in central bank reserves – despite rejection by his own Bank Board.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin in late May and rebought 1,550 a week later. What the move reveals about corporate Bitcoin treasury resilience.
