ETF
Grayscale just launched the first Zcash spot ETF and privacy coins are back on the table
The SEC approved a privacy coin ETF the same month it proposed tighter rules for every other digital asset. That contradiction tells you more about what…
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Bitcoin
Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote Friday and the theme is financial innovation
The symposium theme is "Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy." Warsh divested a dozen blockchain positions before taking office. He appointed Marc Andreessen to co…
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The GENIUS Act missed its statutory deadline and regulators are writing the rules anyway
Congress gave agencies one year to write stablecoin rules. They missed it by four months and counting. The OCC expects a final rule by November, Tether…
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The Clarity Act just lost its window and regulation is arriving by rulemaking instead of legislation
Polymarket odds collapsed from 82 percent to 16 percent. The Senate returns September 14 with 14 working days and three unresolved disputes. Meanwhile the SEC, FASB,…
ETF
XRP ETF trading volume hit an all time high and $1.57 billion in cumulative flows tells a different story than the price
Seven spot funds now hold nearly a billion tokens. Daily volume broke $125 million on August 20, then $200 million across three sessions by the weekend.…
DeFi
The $8.5M DAO heist that cost $951 to pull off: how Term Labs got governance hijacked
An attacker bought a controlling stake in a DAO governance token for less than $1,000, passed malicious proposals, and drained $8.5 million from strategy vaults. The…
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The SEC just proposed actual crypto rules: Regulation Crypto Assets explained
A 402 page proposal, two fundraising exemptions, and a safe harbor that could remove the investment contract label from qualifying tokens. What the framework means and…
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Pi Network’s August 24 pricing shakeup: the end of subsidized app building
Pi App Studio drops its flat 0.25 PI fee and moves to usage based pricing. Only apps with real users keep the subsidy. This is the…
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Seven spot XRP ETFs and $1.4B in flows later: is XRP still undervalued?
Institutional capital keeps arriving through seven regulated funds while the token trades 57% below its cycle high. The numbers suggest the market has not caught up.…
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XRP’s 50% weekly surge: the biggest rally since the SEC settlement and what is driving it
XRP gained more than 50% in five trading days, its strongest weekly performance in 21 months, as a Treasury buyback expansion, a White House crypto summit,…