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Trump Agrees to CLARITY Act Ethics Provision, Bill Text Due Within Days
CLARITY-ACT News President Donald Trump has agreed to the ethics provision in the CLARITY Act, the sweeping U.S. crypto market-structure bill, clearing what negotiators had called the final obstacle to a Senate floor vote. The provision restricts senior government officials from profitin
NEAR Holds Near $1.92 as US Misses GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule Deadline
NEAR News NEAR Protocol (NEAR) held near $1.92 as US regulators let the GENIUS Act’s one-year rulemaking deadline pass without a single final rule in place. Five federal bodies — the Treasury, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the National C
Ripple Payments Secures EU MiCA License for XRP Rails Across 30 Countries
XRP News Ripple Payments Europe, the regulated payments arm tied to the XRP ecosystem, has been added to the European Union's MiCA register, lifting the bloc's tally of authorized crypto service providers to 294. The listing confirms the firm
EU Extends MiCA Review to September 30 to Weigh DeFi Under MiFID II
MICA News The European Union is weighing whether to pull staking, crypto lending, decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets under MiFID II, the bloc’s traditional securities rulebook, in a review launched immediately after the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) came i
4,000 XRP Holders Swayed Ripple’s SEC Court Win, Deaton Reveals
XRP News Nearly 4,000 XRP holders helped tip Ripple’s courtroom fight against the US Securities and Exchange Commission, attorney John Deaton has revealed. Deaton, who represented those retail holders as a friend of the court, says Judge Anal
BitPay Secures MiCA License to Serve Crypto Payments Across All 27 EU States
MICA News Payments firm BitPay secured authorization under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, MiCA, on July 16, clearing the company to run regulated crypto and stablecoin payment services across all 27 member states. The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Mark
XRP in Spotlight as CLARITY Act Senate Odds Surge to 79%
XRP News The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has stalled in the U.S. Senate over an ethics provision that would bar senior federal officials — including the president — from holding personal crypto positions while in office, a clause complicated by President Trump's estimated $1 billion
FTT Slips to $0.21 After Senate Rejects SBF Pardon Bid
FTT News The United States Senate has unanimously passed a resolution declaring that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should under no circumstances receive a presidential pardon or commutation, a symbolic rebuke that rippled through holders of the exchange's native <a href="https://en.coino
Lummis Presses CLARITY Act to Senate Floor After 10 Months of Drafting
CLARITY-ACT News Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming is pressing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill, before the Senate breaks for its August recess. Speaking on July 15, Lummis argued that clearing the legislation is critical to signal market stab
CLARITY Act Draws Senate Democrat Opposition Over Trump Crypto Ethics Clause
CLARITY-ACT News Three U.S. Senate Democrats moved to publicly oppose the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Tuesday, hardening resistance to the crypto market structure bill at a Capitol Hill press conference. Senators Chris Murphy, Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley argued there are, i
CLARITY Act Folds US Crypto Firms Into Bank Secrecy Act Under 20 AML Provisions
CLARITY-ACT News The proposed CLARITY Act would fold United States digital asset service providers directly into the Bank Secrecy Act, introducing roughly 20 provisions covering anti-money-laundering, sanctions and law-enforcement authority. Under the framework we are reviewing, exchange
CLARITY Act Gains Second Law Enforcement Backer as 34,000-Officer FLEOA Endorses Bill
CLARITY-ACT News The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association has endorsed the CLARITY Act, becoming the second major law enforcement group to back the digital-asset market-structure bill ahead of a Senate vote. In a July 10 letter to the Senate Banking Committee, the association — w