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The industry’s major legislative hope is shifting to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, which released its own draft of the controversial regulatory effort.

Momentum for new crypto regulations in Washington has slowed to a trickle and is not expected to resume for at least several weeks.

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Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse called the WEF panel ‘excited’ as Coinbase’s CEO defended bitcoin and stablecoins, while Villeroy warned of threats to monetary sovereignty and financial stability.

Elliptic tracked more than $500 million in USDT tied to Iran’s central bank, suggesting the stablecoin was being used to manage currency pressures and build a “sanctions-proof” alternative to dollar banking.

There was a modest bounce after the president said the US had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but prices quickly resumed their decline.

The first-of-its-kind FIA, according to the companies, offers crypto exposure with principal protection, aiming to attract cautious investors close to retirement.

The Shark Tank investor is preparing shovel-ready websites for bitcoin miners and data centers, betting that infrastructure — not tokens — will drive the next wave of value.

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell said blockchain’s biggest opportunity isn’t tokenized Treasury bills or funds — instead, it brings opaque, illiquid private credit markets on-chain.

“The solution, if implemented, will be a great solution for the United States and all NATO nations,” President Trump said in a Truth Social post.