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The committee vote gives crypto a policy signal, but holders, banks, and exchanges still need the Senate to turn it into rules.
Gino Matos 7 min read
CME and ICE are building 24/7 markets, but Hyperliquid’s oil-linked perps are forcing Washington to decide who gets to run them.
Bitcoin has moved from a failed push above $82,000 to a test of the $78,000 support zone, as rising US Treasury yields and inflation fears continue to pressure risk assets.
Societe Generale is moving its bank-issued stablecoins toward Canton’s institutional repo, collateral, and settlement rails.
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
Personal AI agents are turning software into verified, user-built systems where trust, identity, and execution define the next edge.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost roughly 14,000 BTC this week, ending a six-week inflow streak as hotter inflation data forced markets to reassess risk exposure.
Bond yields and oil are already near stress levels, but a 2008-style break still needs confirmation from credit spreads, volatility, and financial conditions before Bitcoin faces its real macro test.
A $1.38B Bitcoin sale would likely be digestible if handled off-market. The bigger risk is that Strategy’s Bitcoin pile is now explicitly listed as a funding source.