Two days after the Clarity Act fell 11 votes short of the 60 it needed to advance in the Senate, the SEC moved on its own authority, opening the door for capital to move on-chain under clear rules. On 17 September the Commission issued a five-year conditional exemption, branded the “Innovation Exemption”, permitting a new

Ripple (XRP) has expanded its XRPL developer kit to support Stripe and Tempo’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), a standard that lets autonomous AI agents pay for data, computing and other digital services without a human clicking through a checkout screen. The update also adds support for the Open Wallet Standard, which gives developers a common

Predictive-policing is wrong, but it stems from the long-time surveillance of the American people. It is these various surveillance mechanisms that have empowered the state to target anyone for anything, even before they commit a crime — if they were going to commit a crime at all. Thus, DHS should end PITT’s use of financial

The U.S. is continuing to target Iran’s use of bitcoin.  In a Thursday statement, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated BitBank, an Iranian crypto exchange, as part of Operation Economic Outcast — the Trump Administration’s whole-of-government economic campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers.  The U.S. has sanctioned Iran for decades.

U.S. regulators establish temporary guidelines for tokenized securities, balancing blockchain innovation with investor rules. Blockchain-based trading of traditional stocks is moving closer to wider regulatory acceptance in the United States. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a temporary framework for platforms offering tokenized versions of certain U.S. stocks. The decision allows approved venues

Bitcoin is approaching this week’s FOMC meeting on March 18 with renewed momentum, and has decisively reclaimed the $70,000 level. While price has yet to secure a breakout above local range highs, the underlying structure has improved meaningfully.  Four consecutive sessions of ETF inflows and persistent spot demand signal that institutional buyers are actively accumulating

US midterms Polymarket odds now price a 60% chance that Democrats take control of the US Senate, according to CNBC’s review of prediction-market data published September 16, 2026. Kalshi, the other major regulated prediction-market platform, has the same outcome at roughly 55%. Neither number is a forecast – both are market-implied probabilities, the going rate

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Friday, lifting it to 1.25%, the highest level in 31 years, as it battles sticky inflation and a chronically weak yen. The BOJ said it acted because of risks that inflation would move above its 2% target, driven by rising

Two years ago, Bitcoin-backed digital credit barely existed. Today it’s a roughly $16 billion market and Dan Hillery of UXTO thinks the financialization layer on top of Bitcoin could one day rival the network itself. In the debut episode of The Allocators Edge, Hillery breaks down how variable-rate preferred securities like STRC and SATA are

Industry recognition highlights AML RightSource’s expertise in helping organizations navigate evolving crypto and digital asset regulations HIGHLAND HILLS, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AML RightSource, a global expert solutions provider of financial crime compliance managed services and advisory solutions, has been recognized by CobraSight with a 2026 Crypto & Digital Assets Growth Partner Award in