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Patrick McHenry, vice chairman of Ondo Finance and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said he expects the long-awaited U.S. crypto market structure legislation, widely known as the CLARITY Act, to advance in the coming months, potentially reaching the president’s desk before Memorial Day. Speaking at a recent event, McHenry said negotiations around the bill are progressing despite ongoing disagreements, particularly over rules governing stablecoin yield payments. He said that discussions led by White House officials have brought crypto companies and banking representatives together to seek a compromise that would allow the broader legislation to move forward. Stablecoin…

X Money, an upcoming payments system that forms part of Elon Musk’s “everything app” plans, is scheduled to come out as a “limited beta” in the next two months before launching to X users worldwide. Musk gave the new timeline at his AI company’s “All Hands” presentation on Wednesday, during which he said that X Money was already live “in closed beta within the company.” “This is intended to be the place where all money is. The central source of all monetary transactions,” he said, calling it a “game changer.” Elon Musk says X Money is coming soon. Source: xAI…

REI Network, a public blockchain network, has partnered with Ads3, a next-gen AI-driven advertising entity. The partnership aims to boost revenue optimization, ad performance, and ecosystem growth for the Web3 initiatives. As REI Network pointed out in its official X post, the development underscores a noteworthy push toward data-led and smarter growth strategies across the swiftly evolving Web3 world. Hence, both platforms endeavor to provide enhanced monetization frameworks and cleaner consumer acquisition. ✅ REI Network × Ads3 @ads3_ai We’re excited to partner with Ads3, an advanced advertising platform built to enhance ad performance and maximize revenue.Ads3 brings:🔹 scalable user acquisition…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s latest vision for Ethereum’s intersection with artificial intelligence sees the two working together to improve markets, financial safety and human agency. In an X post on Monday, Buterin said his broader vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) sees humans being empowered by AI, rather than replaced, though he said the shorter term involves much more “ordinary” ideas. Buterin pointed to four key areas where Ethereum and AI could intersect in the near future: enabling trustless and/or private interactions with AI, Ethereum becoming an economic layer for AI-to-AI interactions, using AI to fulfill the “mountain…

2025 saw both rises and sharp declines. However, the last three months, contrary to expectations of an increase, were marked by sharp drops. While Bitcoin and altcoins have driven investors away from the market in recent months due to their weak performance, 2026 began with renewed risk appetite and an upward trend. While expectations for 2026 vary, Coinshares has released its cryptocurrency report, stating that there were $582 million in inflows last week. According to the data, total inflows reached $47.2 billion in 2025, while interest in some altcoins also increased. “Global cryptocurrency inflows are projected to reach $47.2 billion…

Binance did not cause the crypto market liquidation event on Oct. 10, but every exchange — centralized or decentralized — saw massive liquidations that day after China imposed rare earth metal controls and the U.S. announced fresh tariffs, said Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng. About 75% of the liquidations took place around 9:00 p.m. ET, alongside two unrelated, isolated issues: a stablecoin depegging and “some slowness in terms of asset transfer,” Teng said Thursday at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference. “The U.S. equity market plunged $1.5 trillion in value that day,” he said. “The U.S. equity market alone saw $150 billion…

The Pakistan Digital Authority has signed an MoU with the DFINITY Foundation to establish a sovereign subnet on $ICP for national-scale applications. The MoU includes expanding access to the Caffeine AI platform, a national messenger app and for DFINITY to become an integral part of Pakistan’s AI strategy. Pakistan has signed a new agreement with the DFINITY Foundation to launch a sovereign national subnet on the Internet Computer ($ICP) network. The agreement was signed between DFINITY and the Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA) and focuses on ensuring that the country’s data is protected and remains in the country in an era…

Ethereum is attempting to stabilize around the $2,000 level as the broader crypto market enters a critical consolidation phase following weeks of heightened volatility. Price action remains fragile, with buyers defending key psychological support while macro uncertainty, liquidity shifts, and persistent selling pressure continue to weigh on sentiment. Analysts note that the current environment resembles previous transitional periods where market structure weakened before a clearer directional move emerged. A recent CryptoQuant report highlights an important contrast in exchange-flow dynamics between Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to the data, significant amounts of Bitcoin have recently been deposited onto exchanges, pushing exchange-held BTC…

Coinbase is climbing again. The stock jumped 7% after Goldman Sachs upgraded it to buy and raised the 12-month target from $294 to $303. That means Goldman now expects a 28% gain from here. Coinbase had fallen 13% over the past year while the S&P 500 rose 15%, putting Coinbase far behind the market. Goldman’s upgrade didn’t come out of nowhere. Analyst James Yaro said the stock’s slump gave investors a cheap entry point. “Higher valuation should come over time, as Coinbase shifts from cyclical to structural growth,” he wrote. Yaro also said Coinbase is still pulling in more money…

Federal Reserve Board member Christopher Waller said the process regarding cryptocurrency regulation has reached a deadlock in Congress. “The Cryptocurrency Enthusiasm That Grew After Donald Trump Is Fading” Waller stated that political and institutional disagreements have been particularly decisive in the progress of comprehensive regulations concerning market structure. Waller stated that he hoped the Fed’s previously proposed “Skinny Accounts” model of limited digital accounts could preempt potential legal disputes, but that no concrete progress had been made in this direction. He also noted that the euphoria in the crypto markets following Donald Trump’s re-election had begun to wane recently. Market…