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After Clarity Act Fails, Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Targets Sherrod Brown With $30 Million
The Ohio spending comes days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry’s Clarity Act.
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Bitcoin ETF Holders Back in the Black as Price Barrels Towards $87,000
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETF Holders Back in the Black as Price Barrels Towards $87,000 Bitcoin exchange-traded fund holders are back in profit after the cryptocurrency's latest surge. Posted on X on Monday, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart wrote that the rally on Monday morning in New York...
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X Sues Two Bitcoin Influencers Over Bot Army That Milked Creator Payouts
A lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X's now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program.
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Why this investment bank expects little demand for tokenized stocks despite SEC’s new trading rules
TD Securities expects limited demand for tokenized stocks despite new SEC rules opening a path for trading outside traditional markets.
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Fairshake Plans $30 Million Ad Blitz Against Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million on advertising against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, its largest announced expenditure of 2026, after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 cloture vote. The New York Times first reported the plan, saying Fairshake told......
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Crypto PAC to spend $30M opposing Sherrod Brown in Ohio, again
The digital asset-aligned PAC joined other groups to spend more than a combined $300 million in the 2024 Ohio Senate race, resulting in Sherrod Brown’s loss to Bernie Moreno.
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Crypto political group plans to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown's Senate bid
It's the biggest spending from the industry's campaign arm in 2026, much like Fairshake's $40 million against Brown two years ago was its largest-ever outlay.
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Crypto Biz: CLARITY Act setback puts Coinbase in the spotlight
Coinbase draws scrutiny after the CLARITY Act stalls, while the SEC moves ahead with tokenized stocks and crypto firms push deeper into payments.
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Strive adds 1,355 bitcoin, picks up pace toward year-end second-place treasury goal
Strive (ASST) remains the fifth-largest public bitcoin holder, behind Strategy, Twenty One, Metaplanet and MARA.
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Why banks and offshore hubs like Dubai are winners of the Senate killing the Clarity Act
One expert believes that the failure to pass the bill is a win for the banks that staunchly oppose stablecoin yields, while a global crypto lawyer believes overseas jurisdictions benefit.
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Crypto casinos might get doxxed after Curaçao regulator hacked
Crypto casinos registered in Curaçao face having their sensitive data doxxed after the island's gambling regulator announced last week that it had been hacked. Curaçao became a magnet for online casinos thanks to its relaxed gambling laws under the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA). The CGA revealed...
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Bitmine bought $75 million ether as Tom Lee says institutions are still underweight crypto
The largest Ethereum-centric treasury firm kept buying, while its chairman argued ETH’s strong third quarter could push institutions to increase crypto exposure.
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Strategy's Bitcoin Pile Nears June Record After $76M Purchase
The Bitcoin treasury firm’s holdings bottomed at 840,447 BTC in August. They have since climbed 5,553 BTC, to within 0.2% of the high.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent champions dollar dominance across global markets and stablecoins
Bessent pushed back against a bearish assessment of the U.S. economy highlighting strong growth, foreign demand for American assets and continued dollar dominance.
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Polymarket faced $10 million fraud attempt as its CEO pushed growth over compliance concerns: WSJ
In a separate attack, hackers compromised nearly 500 users' accounts using stolen personal information, according to the report.
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How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
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Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
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Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.
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CFTC Files Crypto Market Rulemaking With White House at Prerule Stage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market structure rulemaking to the White House on Thursday, two days after the Senate refused to take up the bill that would have written one into law. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review. Chairman Michael Selig said in...
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Coinbase Seeks CFTC Approval for US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Coinbase Derivatives has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a suite of cash-settled perpetual futures tied to individual U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, extending its domestic perpetual-futures push from equity indexes to single securities. U.S. customers...
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WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read...
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X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related...
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Blockworks Lets Exchanges Take Compliance Alerts Straight From AI Agents
Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read...
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Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin traded through the decision little changed. The vote was unanimous, against three dissents for an increase at the July meeting, and the committee's own projections now point to one more...
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U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million…
U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million in Crypto Assets On September 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced coordinated enforcement actions against...