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With each passing hour, the crypto Clarity Act becomes harder to pass in 2026, and the section that imposes personal crypto limits on senior government officials remains at the center of debate. The ethics section — revealed for the first time when a final working draft of Clarity circulated this week — is an unprecedented constraint on a sitting president, but Democrats vigorously oppose how it would be enforced and its temporary nature. U.S. Senate Democrats negotiating the Digital Asset Marke

With each passing hour, the crypto Clarity Act becomes harder to pass in 2026, and the section that imposes personal crypto limits on senior government officials remains at the center of debate. The ethics section — revealed for the first time when a final working draft of Clarity circulated this week — is an unprecedented constraint on a sitting president, but Democrats vigorously oppose how it would be enforced and its temporary nature. U.S. Senate Democrats negotiating the Digital Asset Marke

The World Foundation, which runs the World Network, announced a new funding round led by Pantera Capital. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk) World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, raised $52.5 million in a locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand its AI-era digital verification infrastructure. The nonprofit steward plans to use the new capital to integrate its Orb-based “proof of human” identity technology across enterprise platforms and AI agents as concerns over bots and deepfak

Institutional crypto trading platform LMAX is exploring options including a sale or potential IPO. (CoinDesk) Institutional trading platform LMAX is working with advisers Morgan Stanley and Stifel’s investment bank, KBW. Options being considered include a potential sale, SPAC merger or an IPO, according to people familiar. The London-based firm has expanded rapidly in recent months, introducing a 24/7 multi-asset exchange and securing a $150 million strategic investment from Ripple tied to insti

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television) Strategy’s net reserve stands at $36.6 billion after subtracting $6.8 billion of out-of-the-money convertible debt and $15.5 billion of preferred stock from its bitcoin and cash reserves. The revised mNAV permanently sets the equity issuance threshold at 1.0x, while a 3.22% BTC breakeven ARR would allow bitcoin gains to cover interest and preferred dividend obligations indefinitely. Strategy (MSTR), the biggest corporate holder of

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television) Strategy’s net reserve stands at $36.6 billion after subtracting $6.8 billion of out-of-the-money convertible debt and $15.5 billion of preferred stock from its bitcoin and cash reserves. The revised mNAV permanently sets the equity issuance threshold at 1.0x, while a 3.22% BTC breakeven ARR would allow bitcoin gains to cover interest and preferred dividend obligations indefinitely. Strategy (MSTR), the biggest corporate holder of

Brazilian Agtech firm Cowmed tokenized 10 dairy cows, proving that putting real-world assets onchain is a great way to bring liquidity to businesses facing challenges getting banks to loan them money. (Annie Spratt/Unsplash) Farmers in Paraná, Brazil, have tokenized 10 dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange, raising nearly $20,000 in credit backed by their livestock amid tighter bank lending. The project, led by agtech firm Cowmed, uses AI-powered tracking collars to create encrypted digital identi

Brazilian Agtech firm Cowmed tokenized 10 dairy cows, proving that putting real-world assets onchain is a great way to bring liquidity to businesses facing challenges getting banks to loan them money. (Annie Spratt/Unsplash) Farmers in Paraná, Brazil, have tokenized 10 dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange, raising nearly $20,000 in credit backed by their livestock amid tighter bank lending. The project, led by agtech firm Cowmed, uses AI-powered tracking collars to create encrypted digital identi

The European Union has released a 21st sanctions package against Russia that includes crypto banks against 14 companies. (Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash) The European Union has expanded its Russia sanctions to target the A7 cross-border payments network, including its new links to Africa, and the A7A5 stablecoin used for sanctions evasion. The latest package widens a transaction ban to 14 crypto-related platforms in countries including Georgia, the UAE and Panama, and introduces a tool that could a

The European Union has released a 21st sanctions package against Russia that includes crypto banks against 14 companies. (Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash) The European Union has expanded its Russia sanctions to target the A7 cross-border payments network, including its new links to Africa, and the A7A5 stablecoin used for sanctions evasion. The latest package widens a transaction ban to 14 crypto-related platforms in countries including Georgia, the UAE and Panama, and introduces a tool that could a

Crypto market maker B2C2 held sale talks with multiple potential buyers. (Unsplash) B2C2, the crypto market maker 90% owned by SBI Holdings, has held takeover talks with several potential acquirers over the past 18 months, according to sources The discussions have been hindered by valuation. B2C2 is said to be seeking a price of more than $1 billion, which one source said would be difficult to achieve in the current crypto market. The reported talks come amid a wave of consolidation across the d

The memecoin craze has suffered as institutions crowd into crypto. (Josh Wise) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. The crypto market continues to mature with growing institutional participation, and memecoins are paying the price. The combined market capitalization of DOGE $ 0.07269 and shiba inu (SHIB), the two largest memecoins by value, has fallen to $13.27 billion, the lowest in three years and down about 2% this month alone, even tho

BTC options open interest on Deribit. (Deribit Metrics) Bitcoin options on Deribit are heavily concentrated at the $70,000 and $72,000 strikes, which together account for nearly $5 billion, or about 18%, of the exchange’s $28 billion in open interest. Call positions at those strikes vastly outnumber puts, reflecting strong bullish sentiment. Large bull call spreads and outright call purchases have led to this concentration of open interest. Much of the demand for these upside bets has been linke

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data) Bitcoin rose toward $65,000 and ether gained 0.6% as crypto held its ground despite Brent crude surging to its highest since mid-May After previous oil spikes rattled risk assets, the resilience is one of the more encouraging signals bulls have had in weeks. HYPE advanced for a second consecutive session as it builds a pattern of higher lows from its July pullback, while AI tokens FET and NEAR also posted gains and MORPHO extended one of the more consistent DeFi run

BTC: Poolin Hash Rate (Glassnode) Poolin was regarded as the world's largest bitcoin mining pool in 2019, with an 18-20% share of global hashrate, before a liquidity crisis in 2022 left 11,700 customers holding $163.7 million in frozen funds A $52 million bid from Thor CALAP LLC for Poolin's West Texas mining sites is the only meaningful recovery on the table for creditors owed approximately $173 million Bitcoin mining company Poolin has filed for bankruptcy alongside its two U.S. affiliates Lon

Bitcoin's price collapse has forced some digital asset treasury companies to close. (Ammodramus/Wikimedia Commons) Strategy, Satsuma, Smarter Web Company, Sequans, Nakamoto and Empery Digital have sold bitcoin to repay debt, fund operations, finance buybacks or strengthen their cash reserves. Bitcoin miners MARA and Bitdeer have sold holdings to finance AI infrastructure, while leadership changes at Twenty One Capital and BSTR’s failed merger signal broader disruption across the digital-asset tr

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus (CoinDesk) India’s cybercrime agency has ordered GitHub to take down repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s offline messaging app, as Delhi protesters use mesh-network tools to evade repeated internet shutdowns. Authorities say Bitchat’s decentralized, registration-free design thwarts lawful interception and investigation, even as demonstrators rely on it and similar Bluetooth mesh apps to coordinate during exam scandal protests. It was unclear whether GitHub com

BitMEX logo in front of building (CoinDesk) BitMEX is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit from BKX Services and David Namdar, who allege unfair liquidations and the withholding of collateral. The complaint, which cites 622.66 BTC ($40.7 million) allegedly owed to the plaintiffs, says BitMEX designed a system to retain customer collateral and says an internal desk accessed private user data during server freezes. The lawsuit coincides with BitMEX announcing it will cease operations on Sept. 23

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Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) Ripple launched Ripple Mint, an automated platform for institutions to create, redeem, bridge and track its dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin, and expanded the token to additional networks including the XRPL EVM sidechain, Base, Optimism, Ink and Unichain. The company also made a strategic investment in compliance network Notabene, integrating RLUSD into its business-payments platform to encourage institutional use of the token for real tr

Mirae has big plans for Korbit. (Gu Bra/Pexels) Mirae Asset has completed a 97.15% acquisition of South Korea’s oldest crypto exchange, Korbit, and is rebranding it as Digital X. The firm aims to turn Digital X into an “intelligent investment platform” that integrates real-world assets, security tokens, stablecoins, traditional assets and digital assets in a single ecosystem. Rather than competing directly with dominant exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb, Mirae Asset says it will focus on investor

Bitcoin holds near $65,000 as $800 billion AI selloff leaves crypto largely untouched (Pixabay) Bitcoin hovered around $65,400 in Friday’s Asian trading, barely budging despite a sharp sell-off in major U.S. technology stocks. The Magnificent Seven megacap tech stocks lost about $797 billion in market value on Thursday, dragging the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 lower and leaving the group 11 percent below its late-May peak. Concerns that Big Tech is spending on artificial-intelligence infrastructure f

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune predicts that the crypto Clarity Act won’t find runway to pass by the time the Senate starts its long summer break. Missing the pre-recess deadline is a significant blow to the possibilities of 2026 passage, but Thune told reporters that he hopes to still get the floor process started before the summer break, which will see lawmakers focusing on the election campaigns of the midterm elections. White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt quickly pushed back, tel

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev speaks at Token2049 in Singapore (Token2049) Robinhood said CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was hacked Thursday after it was used to promote a fake memecoin called Vladhood ($VLAD) as the “official Robinhood chain mascot.” The fraudulent post falsely claimed the token would be listed in the Robinhood app and included a blockchain wallet address before being deleted. The incident comes as Robinhood’s newly launched blockchain network has rapidly attracted more than $700 millio

Tassat CEO Glen Sussman (Tassat) Tassat has launched Project NENYA, a stablecoin reserve management platform designed to help regional and midsize U.S. banks compete for deposits now concentrated at a few specialist institutions. The platform, expected to begin pilot activity in early 2027, will create a shared marketplace where regulated stablecoin issuers can allocate reserves across banks and tokenized high-quality liquid assets while monitoring pricing, liquidity and counterparty risk. Tassa

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen (Shutterstock) Coinbase has simplified native agentic payment acceptance in Coinbase Business. Exchange users get new trading views in Coinbase for Agents. For developers there’s packaged infrastructure in the form of a Coinbase Developer Platform x402 SDK. U.S.-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) has moved to close what it sees as gaps in the AI agentic economy, stitching together ways for businesses to be paid by agents, while better accommodat