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Crypto

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  • The CLARITY Act is making significant progress in the US Congress, with a markup session scheduled, signaling a potential legislative boost for the crypto industry, particularly concerning stablecoins, despite some banking industry concerns about regulatory evasion.
  • Bitcoin's price action has been volatile, experiencing outflows from ETFs and nearing potential profit-taking levels around $80K, influenced by macroeconomic factors like US jobs data and broader market sentiment, while analysts eye key support levels.
  • AI continues to be a major theme in crypto, driving innovation in areas like stablecoin payments and hackathons, but also contributing to job cuts, as companies like TeraWulf see AI compute revenue outpace Bitcoin mining.
  • Regulatory scrutiny remains high globally, with the ECB's Lagarde expressing caution on stablecoins, Estonia's FSA issuing warnings, and US Senators questioning Meta on its stablecoin plans, alongside ongoing legal cases involving North Korea-linked hacks.
  • Kraken's parent company, Payward, is pursuing a national trust bank charter from the OCC, indicating a broader trend of crypto firms seeking traditional banking licenses to integrate further into the financial system, further highlighted by Kraken's acquisition of a stablecoin firm.

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