Iran’s central bank tolerates crypto in export payments while the US Treasury has sanctioned four Iranian exchanges handling 78% of volume.
Hong Kong grants first stablecoin licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered: HKMA selects only 3-4 issuers from 36 applicants.
A DeFi user lost around $50 million in a collateral swap on Aave: the largest DeFi user error of all time in detail.
Ripple launches a $750 million share buyback at a $50 billion valuation. Employees and investors gain liquidity.
US Senate advances a CBDC ban with an 84-to-6 vote, embedded in a housing bill – a clause prohibits Fed-issued digital currency until 2030.
Nasdaq and Kraken are developing a gateway for tokenized equities between regulated exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) networks.
Kraken Financial becomes the first crypto firm to gain a Fed Master Account, securing direct access to the Fedwire payment system.
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.
