Senate Republicans are reportedly escalating efforts to advance the long-stalled crypto market structure legislation, delivering what they described as a “closing offer” to Democratic negotiators as Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) moves toward a committee markup as soon as next week. Senate Banking Committee Republicans sent a document Monday night outlining a series of … Read more
A group of US community bankers is pressuring Congress to change the GENIUS Act to close a supposed “loophole” that allows yield-generating stablecoins to undercut banks. The American Bankers Association’s Community Bankers Council said in a letter on Monday to the Senate that it must tighten the stablecoin regulating bill passed last year to stop … Read more
One of the developers of Jack Dorsey’s decentralized messaging app Bitchat has cast doubt on Uganda’s threat to shut down the app ahead of the country’s presidential election. On Monday, the Uganda Communications Commission executive director, Nyombi Thembo, said his team has the technical know-how to turn off Bitchat. Bitchat leverages Bluetooth mesh networks, enabling … Read more
Is the “crypto treasury” strategy a double-edged sword for investors? Not long ago, companies marketed crypto-treasury stocks as a straightforward investment. They purchased shares to gain exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) or other digital assets while benefiting from the liquidity and regulatory oversight of public markets. In rising markets, this approach was effective. Shares of companies … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) struggled to continue its rebound at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as attention focused on $95,000 sellers. Key points: Bitcoin faces resistance as it approaches a large area of seller interest at $95,000. BTC price action begins to weaken versus risk assets and precious metals. Support on weekly time frames remains intact, with $93,500 … Read more
Hardware manufacturer and Bitcoin miner Canaan has continued its initiative of reusing energy for commercial and consumer applications by making compute heat available for greenhouses in Canada. In a Tuesday notice, Canaan said it would participate in a 3 megawatt (MW) proof-of-concept with Bitforest Investment in the province of Manitoba to “recover heat from an … Read more
MSCI announced it will keep digital asset treasury companies in its global indexes, citing investor feedback and the need for further study on non-operating firms. Shares in Michael Saylor’s Strategy rose 5% after Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) decided not to exclude digital asset treasury companies from its market index, for now. In a note … Read more
The Flow Foundation on Tuesday published a technical post-mortem detailing a protocol-level exploit that occurred on Dec. 27, when an attacker was able to counterfeit tokens on the network, resulting in about $3.9 million in confirmed losses before the exploit was contained. According to the report, the attacker exploited a flaw in Flow’s Cadence runtime … Read more
Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs. In an X post on Monday, Jupiter said 90% of the stablecoin’s reserves will initially be held in USDtb, a licensed stablecoin collateralized by shares of BUIDL, BlackRock’s tokenized money-market fund. The … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) sharp 7.4% rebound kick-started the first week of January and has shifted markets’ focus back to futures positioning, where liquidation data suggests the price action may be asymmetric. Key takeaways: Over $10.6 billion in long liquidations sit below $84,000, versus just $2 billion in shorts above $104,000. Retail positioning on Hyperliquid shows shorts … Read more