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Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) is pressing hard for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, widely known as the CLARITY Act, before lawmakers break for the August recess.
Michael Ballweg says Bitcoin remained his only protected asset after authorities froze bank accounts for nearly four years without access. German court acquitted Ballweg of fraud but tax proc
The European Commission has launched a targeted consultation on whether to expand the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation to cover tokenization and non-EU stablecoin issuers, signaling that t
The application of the new European tax rules on cryptocurrencies is already causing disputes in France. The non-custodial exchange platform Bull Bitcoin has initiated proceedings before the
World Liberty Financial’s USD1 has gone from a March 2025 launch announcement to the fourth-largest stablecoin in the world in roughly fifteen months, overtaking PayPal’s PYUSD and Sky’s DAI
Why Is XRP Appearing on Kansas Jayhawks Jerseys? Ripple is becoming an official sponsor of Kansas Jayhawks sports, placing XRP on the jerseys of a major collegiate athletics program in what t
White House officials denied that OpenAI needed federal clearance to release GPT-5.6, even as Washington keeps tightening its review of frontier AI systems. Key Points: OpenAI said GPT-5.6 wi
XRP is set to appear on Kansas Jayhawks jerseys as part of a new sponsorship deal between Ripple and Kansas Athletics, marking one of the first cryptocurrency jersey patch partnerships in col
Launched in 2009, Bitcoin (BTC) is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency. While nobody took it seriously in the beginning, its limitless possibilities attracted investors from all wa
Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated once again following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that the agreement with Iran was now void. This declaration weakened expe
The Digital Chamber, a prominent crypto industry advocacy group, has filed an amicus brief urging a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit centered on dormant Bitcoin ownership, a case that coul
Google updated Chrome Web Store rules to prohibit extensions that facilitate or enable real-money transactions on predictive outcomes, adding prediction markets to the platform’s regulated-go
