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Donald Trump confirmed on social media that he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a ban on a US CBDC until the end of 2030, setting the stage for the bill to become law on Saturday.

State representative Keith Ammon said the New Hampshire executive council's vote against Bitcoin-backed bonds was “short-sighted,” urging the body to reconsider the measure.

The launch comes as tokenized stocks become one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto, with exchanges and traditional finance firms racing to expand 24/7 trading.

Stablecoins are carving out specialized roles as regulation reshapes the market, while Strategy’s Bitcoin sale and Vanguard’s tokenization push highlight crypto’s evolving financial landscape.

Bitcoin price gains came thanks to US whales propeling the Coinbase Premium above a key trend line, new analysis from CryptoQuant reported.

The Fed named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead an AI productivity and jobs task force under Chair Kevin Warsh’s policy review.

A MiCA license allows crypto firms to operate in the EU, but the ESMA’s review will test whether custodians can meet the required security and resilience standards.

As the CLARITY Act advances, crypto's growing political influence in Washington is under scrutiny. But the crypto lobby's massive campaign spend is only part of the story.

US prosecutors charged Rossen Iossifov over the alleged laundering of $290,000 in forfeited crypto from a Kraken account.

Wall Street banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are restricting employee prediction market trades as insider trading fears spread across Polymarket and Kalshi.

Circle announces it received final OCC approval for a national trust bank that will initially serve the company and affiliates, with possible future custody services for institutional clients.

CRYL is offering Bitcoin-backed loans to individuals and businesses as Japanese firms explore broader uses for BTC in lending and credit markets.

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf is reportedly seeking $3.5 billion in debt financing led by Morgan Stanley for its Kentucky data center campus leased by AI company Anthropic.

Metaplanet said it is studying Bitcoin-backed digital credit products in Japan with JPYC and Progmat, but no product has been launched.

Bitcoin bulls faced "crucial resistance" at $65,000 next as BTC price action diverged from oil and US dollar strength.

EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.

Robinhood’s choice to use Ethereum further solidifies its position as the “ultimate settlement layer and liquidity foundation for tokenized assets,” said HashKey Group’s Tim Sun.

Zcash’s next upgrade will replace the once-compromised Orchard pool and may offer clues about whether counterfeit tokens were created via a recent bug.

Injective said the security vulnerability was patched up immediately and claims there were no downloads of the malicious package.

“DeFi usually swings much harder than Bitcoin, so holding up this well is unusual,” says Bitwise, as DeFi tokens have outperformed Bitcoin.

The soon-to-be former chief legal officer did not announce the details of his next move but said that he would continue working with the Board of Coinbase National Trust Company.

Bitdeer shares rallied after the company announced a $36 million Nevada manufacturing facility that will produce its SEALMINER Bitcoin mining machines and expand its hardware business.

Both US financial regulators are understaffed at the leadership level and lacking Democratic commissioners, with no announcement from President Donald Trump on filling the roles.

The companies urged the regulator to exempt blockchain developers and non-custodial wallet providers from rules designed for traditional financial intermediaries.

As AI-driven mining stocks retreat, investors are examining executive stock sales, governance and shareholder alignment across leading Bitcoin miners, according to Blocksbridge Consulting.

The approval adds to a growing list of crypto firms seeking federal banking licenses as the industry moves into the regulated financial system.

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The price of bitcoin hit $64,400, retesting a level it failed to penetrate on Monday, with a break higher opening the path toward the June 15 peak of $67,250.

Polymarket's application to allow users to take positions that are not fully collateralized follows authorization granted to rival Kalshi in March.

Bitcoin has spent 307 days in the $60,000-$70,000 range, the third longest consolidation in any $10,000 price band.

The bitcoin treasury company is working with JPYC and Progmat to explore tokenized credit products backed by bitcoin, aiming to create efficient, 24/7 credit markets in Japan.

A smoother long-term MACD just flipped bullish, pointing to more upside. Here are key levels that will decide if the ongoing bounce turns into a full blown uptrend.

Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto's institutional flows even as prices rallied.

A late-session volume surge carried XRP above its recent range, with traders now watching whether $1.10 can hold as support.

A sharp rise in the yen has left bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies underperforming in yen terms compared with their dollar-based trading pairs.

Bitcoin is up 4.2% over seven days that contained an oil shock, a bond selloff and two rounds of U.S. strikes on Iran.

At its last stage for government approval, the state's executive council rejected the bond project 3-2.

Edward McGee stepped down after seven years, months after distribution chief John Hoffman left for Ondo Finance.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal will depart the exchange, though he'll continue as an adviser, he said Thursday.

The brokerage's new blockchain is off to a fast start, with memecoin trading boosting activity and revenue flowing back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

After a long stretch without breakthroughs in the crypto market structure bill, insiders say a new draft may emerge in a final push for late-July action — though it still lacks bipartisan buy-in.

Redemption requests in the $2 trillion private credit market surged to $15.6 billion in the second quarter, dwarfing bitcoin ETF outflows.

Compass Point analysts Michael Donovan and Ed Engel said markets are giving little credit to future AI data center pipelines despite billions of dollars in signed leases.

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed at educating financial institutions and banks about Ethereum.

Aave's new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits

Circle secured final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, shifting its $73.2 billion stablecoin to a unified federal framework.

The bank argues that the treasury giant's Bitcoin sales are a short-term distraction, reiterating its $100,000 year-end price target.

Plus, Circle wins a national bank charter and pops 10%. And the Clarity Act gets a new draft while the clock is ticking…

A convicted launderer serving time for a $5 million scheme allegedly moved crypto that a court had ordered him to forfeit.

The state's budget law leaves oversight of Kalshi and Polymarket to the CFTC and taxes them at 6%, far below what other states are pursuing.

Researchers warn AI agents could be tricked into downloading malicious code by exploiting the same hallucinations that cause chatbots to make mistakes.

AVAX One, which stockpiles the native token of the Avalanche crypto network, is back in Nasdaq's good graces after a reverse stock split.

The company's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already live in production.

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will have the power to appoint Anthropic board members as part of company's Long-Term Benefit Trust.

Ethereum researchers are using AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities, shifting security work from finding bugs to proving which ones are real.

OpenAI's new flagship model is out, after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview. It lands the same week Fable 5 leaves Anthropic's subscription plans.

Swift’s pilot allows 17 global banks to transfer tokenized deposits on weekends, but ultimate settlement still relies on legacy systems.

MARA Holdings has agreed to purchase a sizable plot of land in Texas to power its Bitcoin mining and growing AI compute ambitions.

The lawmakers have tabled amendments to make the current moratorium permanent, as the fallout over Reform UK's funding widens.

MoonAgents lets users analyze markets and prepare crypto transactions through Telegram while keeping keys on their own devices.

BNB Chain rebuilds itself for a world run by AI agents. BTC ETFs flows flip negative. And prediction markets face a new hurdle.

Trump's embrace of stablecoins is pushing Brussels to expand its crypto law to non-EU issuers and tokenized payments, EU diplomats say.

The lender's new US subsidiary, Connectia Trust, would issue a dollar-pegged stablecoin once it clears the regulator's final conditions.

The two Thai arrests were part of Operation First Light, a 97-country sweep that logged 5,811 arrests and intercepted $293 million.

SpaceXAI's new coding model is cheaper and faster than Anthropic and OpenAI's flagships—and by Musk's own account, at least one generation behind them.

The investment firm said its fourth fund will back AI, robotics, and crypto startups as it broadens beyond digital assets.

Bitcoin is looking slightly more optimistic but failed the breakout everyone was watching. Meanwhile, ETH just printed a weekly death cross for the first time in years.

Investors had backed away from Bitcoin since mid-May.

The meme coin CashCat on Robinhood Chain is the latest flavor of the hour, and one trader has turned a mini-investment into a small fortune in less than three weeks.

The network’s 2026 roadmap targets faster transactions, AI-powered apps, and infrastructure aimed at competing with traditional financial systems, while preparing for a quantum future.

Ripple and XRP become the latest crypto brands to enter the sports marketing space.

More than 3,000 raids since 2022 have led to 629 arrests, as authorities target miners siphoning electricity from the national grid.

The crypto exchange says an arbitrator sided with it after accounting firm Mazars walked away from a nearly finished audit.

Crypto majors fall as the U.S. strikes Iran, ending the ceasefire. Vanguard opens its doors. And a meme coin frenzy erupts on Robinhood chain.

The report, filed in May 2024, invited the National Crime Agency to determine whether there were grounds for further investigation.

A reclaim of the $71k level would be a notable confirmation of a bullish pivot.

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LAB bounced 24% as token burns cut supply. Here's what comes next.

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The U.S. DOJ is reportedly preparing to dismiss its case against alleged BitClub Network founder Matthew Goettsche, nearly seven years after prosecutions

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Bitcoin bulls are coming back, but is the market prepared for a complete comeback?

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The ZCash price action was bearish in the past six weeks but has been pushing higher.

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Here's why $1800 could make or break ETH bulls in the short term

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Has Bitcoin's biggest seller already stepped aside, or is retail next?

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How did a reliable SDK come to reveal the wallet credentials of developers?

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Circle has secured final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust, expanding regulated digital asset custody services.

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Buyers defended $30. Will they defend it once early investors begin selling?

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