Fresh U.S. strikes raise the risk of a volatile Wall Street open, but early markets are still demanding macro confirmation.
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Nikkei reported on May 25 that the US and Iran were discussing a plan to open the Strait of Hormuz roughly 30 days from a final deal, with the early-April ceasefire extended for 60 days and nuclear talks held during that window. That relief setup for Bitcoin has already been tested. The US military said […]
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Tether and the Government of Georgia plan to launch a stablecoin, pushing a national currency directly onto private stablecoin rails before most governments have settled on how that model should work. The Tether Georgia stablecoin plan centers on GEL₮, a stablecoin representing the Georgian lari. The May 25 announcement describes GEL₮ as the official stablecoin […]
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CFTC crypto oversight is moving toward a larger role under the CLARITY Act, but the agency that Congress may soon ask to police much of the US crypto market is facing a more immediate test of its own independence. A New York Times investigation reported that senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission officials who raised concerns […]
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The Bitcoin Iran deal rally on renewed U.S.-Iran deal optimism is a credible first-order macro signal. The move still needs confirmation in oil flows, gasoline prices, inflation compensation, and Fed pricing before traders can treat it as a reopened path to rate cuts. The immediate market logic is straightforward. A reported framework could extend the […]
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Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and stablecoins can cross borders in seconds on a Sunday morning. And yet, if a major UK institution needed to move collateral, settle a high-value payment, or shift liquidity between clearing houses over the weekend, much of that activity had to queue up and wait. […]
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Labor argues the bill could give digital assets enough regulatory cover to move closer to retirement accounts before safeguards catch up.
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The euro-denominated stablecoin consortium Qivalis has received backing from 37 banks across 15 countries, and the asset is planned to launch in the second half of the year. ING noted that stablecoins already serve wholesale cross-border payments and blockchain-based bond settlement, but most of that activity is denominated in US dollars, creating currency exposure for […]
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A renewed push to solidify the United States’ foothold in the digital asset market emerged Thursday as lawmakers unveiled legislation to establish a formal strategic Bitcoin reserve and consolidate the federal government's multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency stockpile. Spearheaded by Representative Nick Begich, the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA) of 2026 mandates the creation of a secure Bitcoin […]
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Washington just gave crypto one of its clearest policy wins of 2026. Bitcoin ETF demand cracked anyway. The Senate Banking Committee advanced H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, by a 15-9 vote on May 14, sending the market-structure bill toward the Senate floor. CryptoSlate reported that Bitcoin moved back above $81,000 after the vote, a clean headline […]
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Bitcoin's 2026 macro setup just flipped from waiting for relief to pricing a renewed threat. As of May 20, 2026, CME FedWatch showed a 54.1% chance of a rate hike at the December 2026 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, against 44.4% odds of no change and only 1.5% odds of easing. For Bitcoin, the important signal is the […]
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The CLARITY Act is moving toward the Senate floor with a promise crypto has spent years asking for: a clearer federal map for digital asset markets. The under-covered risk is that the map runs through the CFTC, making CFTC crypto regulation a capacity test for spot-market oversight after its payroll workforce fell by more than […]
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Truth Social's Bitcoin ETF plan is dead for now, and the fee war offers a more compelling explanation than Yorkville's official rationale. The President Donald Trump-linked Truth Social Bitcoin ETF filed to withdraw its S-1 registration statement on May 19, saying it would no longer pursue the public offering “at this time.” For investors searching […]
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The CLARITY Act could be signed into law in the week of Aug. 3 if Congress keeps pace after a bipartisan Senate Banking Committee vote moved the crypto market structure bill into its next phase, Galaxy Digital’s research arm said. Galaxy Research raised its estimate of the bill’s chances of becoming law in 2026 to […]
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US President Donald Trump's family trust executed hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions during the first quarter of 2026, including the acquisition of stocks directly tied to the digital asset industry, even as his administration pushed sweeping, pro-cryptocurrency regulatory overhauls. According to a mandatory 278-T financial disclosure form released on May 14 by […]
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Inside a packed Senate hearing room on May 14, the air was heavy with the tension of a high-stakes jurisdictional brawl on the CLARITY Act. What was intended to be a routine legislative markup became a grueling “tick-tock” of procedural maneuvering, personal barbs, and a desperate search for a bipartisan middle ground. Ultimately, the bill […]
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Bitcoin surged back above $82,000 after the Senate Banking Committee voted to advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, clearing a major hurdle for the most comprehensive crypto regulation bill in US history. On May 14, the panel approved the legislation on bipartisan lines, sending the legislation to the full Senate floor. The successful markup […]
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Bitcoin is hovering just below $80,000 as President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing for a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, turning the visit into a live test of whether the crypto market’s latest risk rally has enough support to survive a difficult macro week. The trip comes as traders are already contending with […]
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Sovereign curves are back near old stress zones while Hormuz inflation risk keeps central banks boxed in.
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The Senate Banking Committee’s crypto market structure bill is heading into CLARITY Act markup with more than 100 proposed amendments. This is turning a long-delayed vote on the CLARITY Act into a test of whether a fragile stablecoin compromise can survive pressure from banks, Democrats, and crypto industry groups. The final number of amendments has […]
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Bitcoin's path through 2026 now runs through global economic policy. The disruption around the Strait of Hormuz has moved beyond a commodity-price event and into the machinery of governments. The International Energy Agency said crude and refined-product exports through the strait had fallen to less than 10% of pre-conflict levels after about 20 million barrels […]
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A prominent figure from the Washington foreign-policy establishment has said openly what markets have been pricing in fragments: the United States has likely suffered a strategic defeat in Iran, and the failure runs through the Strait of Hormuz. Accepting this premise would introduce a new macro risk for Bitcoin. The warning comes from an article […]
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On May 12, the Senate Banking Committee released updated text of the CLARITY Act ahead of a scheduled May 14 markup. The bill would establish new rules for digital asset intermediaries, define how certain network tokens are treated, expand the role of federal market regulators, and create a path for banks to offer crypto-related services. […]
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Bitcoin faces 2026's densest macro test as CPI, Warsh, and Trump-Xi collide This week (May 11-15) has a credible claim to being the most consequential macro window of 2026 so far, as it compresses every channel currently driving risk assets into a single sequence. Inflation, producer costs, consumer demand, Fed liquidity, central bank leadership, trade […]
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A senior White House official has accused major banking trade leaders of refusing to join earlier talks on stablecoin rewards, escalating a dispute that has become one of the final pressure points ahead of the Senate Banking Committee taking up the CLARITY Act this week. In a May 11 post on the social media platform […]
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The CLARITY Act is heading back to the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 after months of stalled negotiations, putting a small group of Democrats at the center of the crypto industry’s push for a federal market-structure law. The markup comes after the bill was slowed by disputes over stablecoin rewards, anti-money laundering safeguards and […]
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Has Donald Trump been net positive for Bitcoin? It is an uncomfortable question for many Bitcoin supporters, including me. My political criticisms of Trump are substantial and longstanding. They extend well beyond policy disagreements into questions about rhetoric, institutional conduct, and the broader political culture surrounding his presidency. None of that disappears because Bitcoin performed […]
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Bank of Canada stablecoin regulations could arrive in mid or late 2027, pushing the detailed rulebook later into the same year that Canada's government has already marked for its framework to take effect. That timing lands just as Visa Canada and Wealthsimple are piloting USDC settlement for certain card-network obligations in Canada. The result is […]
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The Senate Banking Committee plans to mark up the CLARITY Act on May 14, giving the stalled crypto-market-structure bill its clearest path this year toward a committee vote. The hearing would move one of Congress’s most closely watched digital-asset bills from private negotiations into a public amendment process, where lawmakers are expected to test whether […]
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The CLARITY Act is finally moving toward a long-awaited Senate Banking Committee markup next week, but its path is being complicated by a fight over whether Congress should impose new ethics restrictions on federal officials and elected leaders involved with the crypto industry. On May 7, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the draft text […]
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