Two July Windows Left: The CLARITY Act’s Senate Fight and What Failure Means
The CLARITY Act, the bill that would define whether digital assets fall under SEC or CFTC jurisdiction, has two remaining floor windows before the August recess: the weeks of July 20 and July 27. Miss both, and Senator Lummis has warned that market…
Crypto Markets Retrench Amid Clarity Act Delays as LiquidChain Layer 3 Presale Approaches $1M
Digital asset markets are experiencing downward pressure today, with the total cryptocurrency market capitalization declining 2.26% to $2.17 trillion. Against this backdrop of short-term market consolidation and pending regulatory clarity, the…
ERCOT Grid Rules Add A New Infrastructure Hurdle For Texas Bitcoin Miners
ERCOT Grid Rules Add A New Infrastructure Hurdle For Texas Bitcoin Miners is a useful reminder that crypto coverage is not only about token prices. Sometimes the more important story is the infrastructure, regulation, se
Binance Futures Surge 80% in June as Spot Markets Hit Two-Year Low
Binance reportedly saw a significant increase in futures trading volume last month, with figures suggesting an 80% jump from May’s volume and marking a high point for the year. This increase occurred while crypto spot markets were running at their…
Criminal Complaint Against Circle Puts USDC Freeze Policy Under a Microscope
A criminal complaint filed by Wisconsin prosecutors against Circle, the company behind USDC, has put an uncomfortable question back in the spotlight. Why does the world’s second-largest stablecoin issuer appear far less willing than Tether to help…
Bitwise Solana ETF Filing Keeps The SOL Fund Race Moving Beyond Theory
The Solana ETF story keeps getting harder to ignore. Bitwiseâs filing gives the market another reason to treat SOL as the next major test case for crypto funds beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. The useful way to read this
NOBLE Endorses CLARITY Act as Major County Sheriffs Drop Opposition
The CLARITY Act picked up its first major public law enforcement endorsement on July 1 when the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) formally backed the bill, and two days later Major County Sheriffs of America withdrew its…
XRP Ledger Lending Amendments Face 80% Validator Hurdle as Institutional Credit Layer Takes Shape
Ripple has formally proposed two XRPL amendments, XLS-65 and XLS-66, that would embed fixed-term institutional credit infrastructure directly into the XRP Ledger. With it rolling, the validator voting is also now active following the Rippled v3.1.0…
FBI Director Kash Patel Undisclosed Strategy Investment Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions
FBI Director Kash Patel purchased between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of Strategy stock on November 21, 2025, and did not disclose the transaction until May 26, 2026. It is a gap of more than six months against the STOCK Act’s 45-day reporting…
CLARITY Act Faces Sub-50% Odds as Senate Clock Ticks Toward August
Jefferies analyst Andrew Moss and his team warned Monday that the CLARITY Act, the defining crypto regulation bill of this Congress, faces a compressing Senate window, with Polymarket odds of passage by end-2026 now sitting at 48%, down from 70% in…