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House Financial Services Committee chair French Hill (R-AR) said Monday that the personal cryptocurrency dealings of President Donald Trump and his family have made drafting legislation for the novel sector “more complicated,” in a rare rebuke of the president’s personal activities by a key member of congressional Republican leadership. Hill specifically named the president’s meme coin and stablecoin projects as two endeavors that have negatively impacted the work of lawmakers racing to create rules for the digital assets industry. “They have made our work more complicated,” Hill told reporters Monday, in reference to those projects. Since returning to power, Trump…

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The DeFi lending protocol Seamless, today announced the migration of its entire infrastructure to Morpho, a decentralized lending protocol managing over $500 million in liquidity on Coinbase-incubated Base and $2.4 billion on Ethereum. The transition, approved by the Seamless DAO in early 2025, transforms Seamless into a “platformless” DeFi venue built on Morpho’s permissionless infrastructure. “We’re using existing liquidity to fuel future product developments such as Leverage Tokens which tap into Base liquidity sources,” said Wes Frederickson, Seamless Co-Founder and CTO. “As the first to go fully platformless, we’re proving that less infrastructure means more value for borrowers. This is…

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. We finally have Circle’s S-1 and, honestly, it’s just as juicy as I had hoped. It looks like Circle, which plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker CRCL, is aiming for a valuation of around $4 billion to $5 billion. Some folks — including PitchBook’s Robert Le — have noted that it’s a rather low valuation. In Le’s case, he thinks it could be purposefully low. Coinbase, when it went public in 2021, kicked off trading with a nearly $100 billion valuation. Obviously,…

Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market took a turn for the worse over the weekend in price drops that have largely been blamed on Trump’s promised tariffs. I overheard a handful of X Spaces hosts sound the alarms about it on Monday, acting as though the bull market was over. But now that it’s Tuesday, things are already recovering. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been delayed, allowing bitcoin and some other cryptos to partially recover. As often happens, gaming tokens were harder hit. Immutable’s IMX token fell 14% from Sunday to Monday. Since then, it’s recouped a…

Logan Paul’s lawsuit against YouTuber Coffeezilla is moving forward after a U.S. magistrate judge denied the crypto sleuth’s request to dismiss Paul’s claims with prejudice. Counsel for Coffeezilla, whose real name is Stephen Findeisen, filed a motion to dismiss the claims in February on behalf of Findeisen and Coffee Break Productions LLC, claiming that the alleged libelous statements were not capable of defaming Paul. Texas magistrate judge Henry J. Bemporad disagreed, noting that Findeisen’s use of the word “scam” met the defamatory definition while adding that his role as a crypto investigator would lead an “objectively reasonable reader” to understand…

Swan Chain has recently established an integration with Parasail to improve distributed artificial intelligence (AI) computing operations. Through this collaboration, the organizations seek to maximize AI training operations by deploying global data centre resources which represent an economical solution compared to conventional computing platforms. Through its integration the platform allows AI developers to reduce their expenses while making AI solutions more accessible. 🚀 DePIN Integration Spotlight: @Swan_ChainWe’re excited to dive deeper into our DePIN partners—this time featuring Swan Chain, the decentralized AI computing marketplace revolutionizing affordable AI development!Why Swan Chain?✨ Cost-Efficient AI Compute:Leverages… pic.twitter.com/cvYUNLJPZw — Parasail (@parasailnetwork) April 2, 2025…

Switzerland’s economy is showing early signs of complete digitalization, as digital transactions have now surpassed cash payments, according to a new survey. Switzerland has long favored cash, with the average person holding around $10,481 in bills and coins. It’s been a cultural norm, valued for privacy and ease. But a new survey from the Swiss National Bank appears to show that debit cards have now edged out cash as the most common way to pay. The survey found that in 2024, 35% of in-store purchases in Switzerland were made with debit cards, overtaking cash, which made up 30%. That’s a…

The Official Trump (TRUMP) meme coin is the worst-performing token in the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap this week, according to CoinGecko—touching the lowest price seen since just hours after the coin first launched. TRUMP’s 37% weekly plunge comes as the ebbs and flows in the U.S. President’s trade war cause significant swings across the crypto market, though no major coin has been hit as hard as this one over the last week. On Friday, President Trump announced that he intended to impose tariffs of up to 25% on Canada and Mexico, along with a 10% trade tariff on…

When SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce released her statement on February 21, 2025, titled “There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” it didn’t read like a typical piece of regulatory commentary. The title, a nod to Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” set the tone: frustration, urgency, and maybe even a quiet plea for clarity. The SEC published a formal Request for Information — an open call for public input on how to determine whether crypto assets should be classified and regulated as securities. It was the first real invitation in years for the broader crypto ecosystem to help shape…