Bitcoin’s price action in early April has been relatively calm, holding in the low $70,000s and trading repeatedly through the $71,000–$75,000 range. That stability near all-time highs is keeping the asset in view for retail traders—but this April, the more… Read More »How US Tax Refunds and New IRS Crypto Rules Could Spark a $240B Bitcoin Retail Demand Wave
The policy fight over how U.S. lawmakers treat yield on stablecoins has moved from abstract risk scenarios to hard numbers. A new White House economic study finds little evidence that today’s stablecoin yield products are undermining bank lending or deposit… Read More »White House Study Undercuts Case for Stablecoin Yield Ban, Putting CLARITY Act Under Senate Spotlight
Circle’s ability to freeze USD Coin (USDC) on-chain—a control long marketed as a safety feature—is drawing renewed scrutiny after an on-chain investigation alleged that the company moved slowly to block hundreds of millions in stolen funds while rapidly freezing a… Read More »Circle’s USDC Freeze Powers Under Fire After Alleged Inconsistent Wallet Blocks
US banking regulators are moving ahead with a capital relief package that could free tens of billions of dollars for the country’s largest lenders. Yet buried inside the same proposal is a pointed reminder that the core vulnerability exposed by… Read More »US Bank Capital Relief Plan Leaves SVB’s Core Weakness in Place
Crypto-native prediction markets spent years positioning themselves as a smarter, more useful alternative to gambling — a way to trade on information rather than spin a roulette wheel. But once sports became their dominant use case, the same products that… Read More »How Sports Turned Crypto Prediction Markets Mainstream — And Why Regulators Might Shut Them Down
Tether’s USDT has grown into the dominant dollar token in crypto despite a persistent, high‑profile weakness: it had never passed a full, independent audit. That gap is now starting to close. On Mar. 24, Tether said it has formally engaged… Read More »Tether Finally Lands a Big Four Audit: What It Means for USDT and Crypto Markets
Kentucky’s latest attempt to crack down on cryptocurrency kiosk scams has unexpectedly put the state’s own pro–self-custody stance under pressure. A late-added amendment to House Bill 380 (HB 380) would require hardware wallet providers to help users reset passwords and… Read More »Kentucky Bill HB 380 Raises Fears of Backdoor ‘Recovery’ in Crypto Hardware Wallets
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has quietly redrawn the line between crypto wallets and regulated derivatives markets. A March 17 no-action relief letter for Phantom wallet lets the app act as a consumer-facing interface for CFTC-regulated derivatives—without registering… Read More »CFTC Gives Phantom the Green Light: What Wallet-Based Access to Derivatives Really Means
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued its clearest guidance yet on how it categorizes crypto assets — and in the process, it has sharply reduced the likelihood that many mainstream networks and software providers will be pushed… Read More »SEC’s Revamped Crypto Rules Ease KYC Burden for Bitcoin, XRP, and Solana
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump-linked crypto venture that says it wants to “democratize finance,” has approved a governance overhaul that explicitly prices premium access at roughly $5 million worth of its native token. The move highlights a widening gap… Read More »Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Courts $5M ‘Super Node’ Investors While Preaching Democratized Finance
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is moving to rein in insider-style trading and manipulation risks in prediction markets, a fast-growing corner of derivatives that now overlaps heavily with crypto-native platforms and retail trading apps. For crypto traders, prediction… Read More »CFTC Targets Insider Trading Risks in Crypto Prediction Markets
South Korea’s latest enforcement move against Bithumb is about more than a single exchange’s compliance gaps. It is directly reshaping one of the most important regional pricing signals in crypto – the Bitcoin kimchi premium – and testing how much… Read More »South Korea’s Bithumb Crackdown Puts Bitcoin’s Kimchi Premium at Risk