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The reported $100 UNI target hinges on tokenized assets leaving closed rails for liquid, composable markets.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 7 min read 
A White House meeting with law enforcement groups shows CLARITY’s toughest Senate fight may be over crypto crime, and whether software developers should be blamed when criminals use their code.
SBI Shinsei’s crypto vouchers make XRP the visible hook while deposits, retention, and SBI VC Trade remain the real contest.
The $650M plan tests whether AI can speed up real-business lending without weakening credit discipline.
Democrats say Republicans and the White House are backing away from a crypto ethics enforcement deal, raising new doubts about the bill’s fragile path to a Senate floor vote.
cirBTC gives Circle a BTC wrapper, but the harder test is whether custody, reserves, liquidity, and redemption controls can win institutional use.
The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts.
Republican senators are pressing the Fed, FDIC and OCC to rewrite digital asset capital rules, arguing that Basel’s treatment of crypto functions like a backdoor ban on banks holding Bitcoin.
UK lawmakers say the BoE should rethink proposed pound stablecoin holding caps and a 40% non-yielding reserve requirement before the regime decides whether a GBP market can scale.
