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Recently, negotiations among senators from both parties were said to hit a wall over the ethics provision, in which Democrats have demanded the president, vice president and members of Congress be restricted in their personal crypto ties. The disclosure from Trump that he’d made more than $1 billion from his industry involvement in 2025 added fuel to the critics. On Tuesday, a few Democratic senators held a press conference to call for Clarity Act opposition if it doesn’t sever Trump’s “corrupt” ties to the sector. But that vocal group didn’t include Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat who has been at…

Hyperliquid has added a pre-IPO perpetual market linked to ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, giving traders synthetic exposure to the Chinese chipmaker before its Shanghai debut. The contract, listed as xyz, traded near $8 on July 15, according to on-chain market data cited by Hyperinsight. Applied to CXMT’s expected post-IPO share count of 66.881 billion shares, that price implies a valuation near $535 billion, about 6.3 times its official IPO valuation. Hyperliquid opens a synthetic route to CXMT The CXMT contract operates through Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which allows outside deployers to create perpetual markets linked to assets beyond cryptocurrencies. These…

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a prominent backbone for managing over $114 trillion in securities, has embarked on a groundbreaking journey to modernize financial markets. As of July 15, DTCC has commenced initial trading operations for tokenized securities, marking a pivotal step in financial evolution. Key participants include the likes of Ripple Prime, which plays a significant role in laying the foundations for this new frontier in trade. Is Ripple Prime Leading the Charge? Indeed, Ripple Prime has cemented its involvement by joining DTCC’s exclusive Industry Working Group, alongside financial powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and…

Renowned cryptocurrency analyst Benjamin Cowen, in his latest market analysis, examined Bitcoin’s price movements. Cowen noted that despite recent criticism and ridicule, Bitcoin’s famous “four-year cycle” pattern continues to function flawlessly. An experienced analyst evaluating Bitcoin noted that the market cycle in 2026 is a less volatile replica of the 2018 bear market. Cowen’s charts show that price movements since the beginning of the year almost perfectly mirror those of 2018. According to the analyst, the local low in February, the rising lows in March and April, the rejection from the 200-day moving average in May, and the drop below…

Ethereum ($ETH) is showing strong technical signs of a short-term bottom reversal, with a projected surge to $2,163. Ethereum targets $2,163 following double bottom completion As shown in the chart below, $ETH has clearly formed a classic double-bottom reversal pattern near the $1,510 support. Even more, just two days ago, the coin broke above the $1,842 neckline resistance after a period of consolidation. At press time, $ETH was still sustaining this bullish momentum, trading at about $1,883 (+6.88% in the last 24 hours). Source: Tech Charts According to veteran chartist Aksel Kibar, this setup projects an upside target of $2,163…

The sharp decline in the cryptocurrency market has also significantly impacted the balance sheets of companies that stand out with their institutional treasury strategies. According to the data, Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, incurred total losses exceeding $12.4 billion in its Bitcoin portfolio, while Bitmine, headed by Tom Lee, saw losses surpassing $10 billion in its Ethereum portfolio. Strategy (MSTR), the company with the world’s largest institutional Bitcoin treasury, has been accumulating Bitcoin since August 2020 through equity sales programs and convertible bonds. The company holds approximately 3.9% of the total Bitcoin supply, with an average purchase cost of around…

While the market argues about $XRP price levels, the ledger underneath it is assembling something more ambitious: a full stack of compliance-native DeFi rails aimed at banks, funds, and treasury desks. Here is what is already live, what is in validator voting right now, and why the whole bet could still fail. The $XRP Ledger has spent most of its fourteen-year life being described as a payments chain. Fast, cheap, boring. The description was accurate for a long time, and it also missed what has been happening on the ledger over the past eighteen months. Piece by piece, amendment by…

The intent is to protect minors. The risk is that the mechanism protecting them requires building a much larger surveillance apparatus than anyone campaigning for it admits. Frederik Gregaard is the CEO of the Cardano Foundation, the Swiss-based non-profit organization that exists to ensure the advancement of the Cardano protocol. KIDS doesn’t mandate age verification outright, because it doesn’t have to. Making platforms liable for harm to minors who access their services gives companies a simple risk calculus. Either you verify age, or accept the legal exposure of not knowing who’s a minor. Liability without a verification mandate still produces…

Binance’s new campaign with an $800,000 prize pool in $XRP tokens has attracted increased attention from holders of the Ripple USD ($RLUSD) stablecoin. However, strict regulatory filters and technical requirements significantly narrow the pool of potential participants. The first barrier is geographic eligibility. Binance restricted the list of participants, citing the European MiCA regulation covering unauthorized stablecoins and its internal compliance requirements. Not only is full identity verification (KYC) required to participate, but the exchange has completely excluded residents of Canada, Japan, Iran, North Korea, and more. Most of Europe is also restricted, and residents of Germany, France, Austria, Belgium,…

Blockchain infrastructure is the combination of hardware, software, and network components that allow a blockchain to record, validate, and store transactions without a central authority. It’s the foundation everything else in crypto sits on top of — from Bitcoin’s payment network to Ethereum’s smart contracts to the supply-chain and banking systems increasingly built on blockchain rails. Whether you’re comparing the most reliable or top-rated blockchain infrastructure providers, or just want blockchain for dummies, this guide breaks down what blockchain infrastructure actually consists of — including its technology stack, the different types available, and how it’s being used across industries in…