Iran’s central bank tolerates crypto in export payments while the US Treasury has sanctioned four Iranian exchanges handling 78% of volume.
Venezuela’s mid-sized companies are losing access to US dollars, pushing businesses increasingly into crypto and stablecoin markets.
SEC approves Nasdaq’s joint proposal with Kraken for tokenized securities: stocks and ETFs can now trade on-chain.
Arizona files 20 charges against Kalshi for illegal gambling – the first criminal prosecution of a prediction market operator.
SEC and CFTC publish a joint token taxonomy. Most crypto assets are classified as non-securities under the new guidance.
The Clarity Act is stuck in the US Senate as a dispute over stablecoin interest blocks the most important crypto law in US history.
Strategy STRC pays an 11.5% yield and uses it to finance Bitcoin purchases – the comparison with Terra-Luna reveals surface-level parallels.
Bitcoin slipped to USD 74,985 after the first Fed rate hike in more than three years, one day after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act.
Memecoins on Robinhood Chain lock up tokenized stock floats, and one pool drove the HIMS wrapper to 4.5 times its NYSE price.
What separates Dogecoin from Bitcoin is its unlimited supply, and the 2013 satire coin now trades through its own US spot ETF.
