The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping housing affordability bill Monday night — and tucked inside its pages is a provision that could permanently reshape America’s digital currency landscape: a formal ban on a Federal Reserve-issued central bank digital currency through the end of 2030. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act cleared the Senate 85-5,
India FIU seeks OTC crypto trade records above $10,000 from major exchanges. Exchanges must identify beneficial owners behind private crypto transactions. New rules require OTC trade records retention from January 2026 onward. India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has directed major cryptocurrency exchanges to submit records of over-the-counter transactions exceeding $10,000. The request reflects increasing regulatory
China delivered a two-part signal to the crypto market this week: Tencent began testing Xiaowei, a native AI agent embedded in WeChat’s 1.4 billion-user platform, while the PBOC (People’s Bank of China) published a sweeping review of its anti-money-laundering enforcement. It reported more than 2,000 money-laundering convictions in 2025 alone and named virtual-currency laundering a
Former bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT) agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a securities class action alleging it misled investors in connection with its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. (USBTC). The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, focused on Hut 8’s all-stock merger with USBTC,
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of 250 Digital, the crypto investment firm spun out of CoinFund in January 2026, and used the closing to launch a new institutional business line called Franklin Crypto. The deal, first announced in April, marks one of the most concrete moves by a major legacy asset manager to build
Bitmine owns 4.7% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 94% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,718,677 staked ETH, representing $8.2 billion at $1,733 per ETH. MAVAN (Made
Circle will bring native USDC, EURC, CCTP and Circle Mint to Cronos for crosschain payments, trading and ramps. Circle is preparing to bring native USDC, EURC, and CCTP to Cronos. The rollout will add dollar and euro stablecoin infrastructure to the network. Circle Mint will also support eligible users on Cronos. It will provide fiat
In Morgan Stanley ETF news, the asset manager filed amended S-1 registration statements with the SEC on June 18, 2026, for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, both priced at a 0.14% annual sponsor fee, undercutting every existing US competitor in both categories. The filings also introduce staking provisions that turn these into yield-generating instruments rather
Thanks to the newly passed U.S. Senate housing affordability bill, the Federal Reserve may be heading toward a formal ban from instituting a digital dollar in the form of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), despite the fact the Fed wasn’t working on such a project. Republican politicians had embraced an aggressive opposition campaign against
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Monday aimed at cementing U.S. dominance in quantum computing while accelerating the federal government’s transition to encryption that can withstand quantum attacks. The move carries significant implications for Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry, which has long been warned that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could crack the
