Crypto advocacy groups called a White House meeting on Monday to discuss an intensely contested topic on how to treat stablecoin rewards.
Bitcoin was little changed Monday as volatility spikes and crypto equities remained under pressure ahead of the U.S. market open.
Representatives from Coinbase, crypto trade groups and banking organizations are expected to meet next week to discuss the treatment of stablecoin rewards.
Stablecoin rewards and the Clarity Act widen the divide between crypto and TradFi, according to people who spoke with the WSJ.
Solana is rapidly positioning itself as a core hub for tokenized finance following WisdomTree’s deployment of fund infrastructure on the blockchain. The move reflects growing confidence among traditional asset managers in SOL’s ability to support large-scale, regulated financial products with the speed and cost efficiency required by modern capital markets. How Traditional Asset Managers Expand On-Chain Operations WisdomTree’s deployment of $159 billion in fund infrastructure on Solana marks a turning point for how regulated money moves. A research and news site, Genfinity, revealed on X that regulated money market funds are now settling natively on SOL, which means institutional cash flow assets no longer require traditional banking rails. One of the clearest signals is the Government money market digital fund, which already holds around $730 million in on-chain assets. Direct minting eliminates synthetic exposure with real Treasury-backed settlement. This allows retail investors to access institutional-grade financial products with blockchain speed and low costs. The multi-chain deployment is proof that financial institutions prioritize performance over narrative. Currently, SOL is processing the same regulated funds that previously required correspondent banks and a 3-day settlement. The gap between on-chain infrastructure and traditional finance products has just collapsed. An industry-leading commentary on the global capital markets, The Kobeissi Letter, reported that Coinbase has announced it is integrating with Jupiter Exchange directly into its on-chain trading stack. With this move, millions of Solana-based tokens can now be traded on Coinbase for the first time, all through Jupiter on-chain liquidity. Instead of relying on the slow manual process of listing assets on a centralized order book, Coinbase is currently using on-chain infrastructure to provide instant access to Solana-native markets. Under the new integration, users can deploy existing Coinbase balances and payment methods to trade tokens from a self-custodial wallet. “Even the centralized exchanges are moving on-chain,” The Kobeissi Letter noted. Why Liquidity Grabs Often Precede Reversals According to Larskooistra, the local context on Solana is fairly conducive to building a structure. The Price has already completed a Model 2 accumulation schematic, and grabbed all buy-side liquidity while taking the range high and broke market structure back to bearish, creating a supply in the process. Related Reading: Solana Structure Suggests One Final Test Before Bulls Can Step In From a higher-timeframe perspective, this gives a bearish context on BTC whenever accumulation models complete themselves and break the market structure, and then turn back to bearish afterwards, which shows a full reversal towards the lows. Larskooistra expects the equal lows acting as the next liquidity target to be taken out, and is looking for distribution schematics on the current move up. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com
Bellwether crypto exchange Coinbase was lower for an 8th straight session on Thursday to its weakest level since May.
Crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake said it has more than $193 million in cash as it heads into the 2026 midterms.
The feature, first announced in December, was built in partnership with U.S.-regulated prediction market operator Kalshi.
The full rollout comes after an earlier limited launch and as prediction markets are seeing record levels of activity and revenue.
U.K. officials say banks must treat crypto businesses fairly as final regulation nears.
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The bank argued that legislative momentum remains strong as industry heavyweights prioritize long-term regulatory certainty over unpredictable enforcement.
The ASA says a string of advertisements from Coinbase have been banned over concerns that they were "socially irresponsible."
The ASA banned Coinbase adverts concluding they imply crypto could ease the country's cost-of-living crisis.
Gold's breakout above $5,000 and Clarity Act uncertainty are putting crypto's next market move to the test, Matt Hougan said.
Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.
UK banks are blocking or delaying roughly 40% of payments to crypto exchanges, raising pressure on the UK’s digital asset sector.
The crypto exchange is in talks with overseas crypto exchanges and local financial institutions for the sale, local media reported.
Brian Armstrong returns from World Economic Forum with message: traditional finance is taking crypto seriously
Coinbase Institutional’s latest Charting Crypto report has signaled a constructive start to 2026 after a late-2025 market reset.
The new feature allows U.S. users to borrow USDC against cbETH while keeping their staked ETH exposure intact.
Coinbase VP of US Policy Kara Calvert explains what tipped the scales for Coinbase against the legislation just hours before a scheduled markup.
If BASE becomes economically tied to COIN, the token would trade not as a memeified L2 token, but as a globally accessible representation of equity-like value.
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse called the WEF panel ‘spirited’ as Coinbase’s CEO defended bitcoin and stablecoins, while Villeroy warned of threats to monetary sovereignty and financial stability.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
President Trump says he hopes to sign crypto legislation into law "very soon," as key stakeholders splinter on key aspects of the bill.
Bitcoin fell below $89,000 late Tuesday as rising macro uncertainty triggered a broad risk-off move across global markets.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Risk assets slide amid tariff uncertainty and rising global bond yields.
Coinbase withdrew support from the bill after seeing that it would ban crypto companies from paying interest on idle stablecoin balances.
The initiative aims to pilot stablecoin payments across government agencies, expand USDC adoption among local businesses, and more.