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A White House report released Wednesday directly challenges the banking industry’s claims that stablecoin yields would drain deposits and weaken lending to households and small businesses. Instead, banning those stablecoin rewards would have only a negligible impact on credit creation, the analysis, released by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), found. The White House economists behind the 21-page report said their findings are based on a stylized economic model calibrated with Federal Reserve and FDIC data on deposits, lending and bank liquidity, as well as industry disclosures on stablecoin reserves and academic estimates of how consumers shift funds between assets.…

Bitcoin mining is still running on the subsidy, not demand. That is the more useful place to start as we head into the next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment window, which CoinWarz now estimates for April 18, 2026, with difficulty projected to fall from 138.97 trillion to 132.14 trillion, a decline of 4.91%. The schedule matters less than the structure underneath it. YCharts, using Blockchain.com data, showed daily Bitcoin transaction fees at 2.443 $BTC on April 8, down 69% from a year earlier. With the block subsidy fixed at 3.125 $BTC and the network producing roughly 144 blocks a day, fees are…

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Markets are wrestling with conflicting signals as Ethereum crypto pushes higher into resistance while broader sentiment remains deeply cautious and defensive. $ETH/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Thesis: Bullish Momentum Inside a Broader Damage-Control Phase Ethereum crypto (ETHUSDT) is pressing higher around 2,253 with short-term momentum firmly in buyers’ hands, but it is doing so inside a larger market backdrop still scarred from prior damage. The daily trend is recovering, not roaring, as price trades well below the 200-day, yet it has reclaimed and is holding above the 20-day and 50-day EMAs. That is a textbook repair…

Coinbase is reportedly in the running to partner with Cloudflare on issuing a stablecoin purpose-built for AI transactions. The deal, first reported by The Information, would position both companies at the intersection of two industries that can’t stop talking about each other. If that sounds like a corporate Mad Libs combining every buzzy term of 2025 — AI, stablecoins, agents — well, it kind of is. But there’s a real problem being solved here, and the companies chasing it aren’t exactly startups running on vibes. What we know about the deal Details remain thin. What’s been reported is that Coinbase…

South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party is reportedly preparing a draft bill that would classify stablecoins as foreign exchange payment instruments and require tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) to be backed by assets held in trust. Citing an integrated draft of the proposed Digital Asset Basic Act, the Seoul Economic Daily reported on Wednesday that stablecoins used in cross-border transactions would be treated as “means of payment” under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, placing related businesses under oversight even without separate registration. The draft bill would also require issuers of tokenized RWAs to place underlying assets in managed trusts under the Capital…

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency mining sector, the Bitmain-affiliated cloud mining platform Bitfufu successfully mined 214 Bitcoin ($BTC) throughout March 2025. Consequently, the company’s total Bitcoin holdings reached 1,794 $BTC as of March 31, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. This production figure provides a crucial snapshot of industrial-scale mining efficiency and highlights the evolving dynamics of hash rate distribution. Bitfufu’s March 2025 Bitcoin Mining Achievement Bitfufu’s extraction of 214 $BTC last month represents a substantial operational output. To contextualize this achievement, analysts often compare monthly production to network-wide metrics. For instance, the total Bitcoin…

Flare published a governance proposal on Thursday that would make it one of the first layer-1 blockchains to capture maximal extractable value (MEV) at the protocol level rather than letting it flow to the small number of specialized actors who profit from transaction ordering across virtually every major chain. MEV is the revenue that block builders extract by reordering, inserting or censoring transactions within a block. On most blockchains, this value flows to external searchers and builders who effectively impose a hidden tax on ordinary users through front-running, sandwich attacks and arbitrage. External estimates put annual MEV revenues at tens…

Ethereum price rose 7% to a three-week high on Wednesday, fueled by a broader market rebound and strengthening stablecoin supply on the network. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price rose 9% to a multi-week high of $2,257 on Wednesday, fueled by a recovery in the entire crypto market following news that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire to their war, while also opening the Strait of Hormuz within the period. The two nations would also be discussing a framework for a permanent end to the war. As tendons eased, crude oil prices fell back…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a Nasdaq rule change that enables the trading of securities in tokenized form, marking a major step in integrating blockchain-based assets into traditional market infrastructure. The approval allows eligible securities, including stocks from the Russell 1000 and ETFs tracking major indices such as the S&P 500, to be represented and traded as tokenized assets on Nasdaq. These tokenized versions will trade on the same order book as traditional shares, with identical execution priority, pricing, and market data treatment. Under the framework, tokenized securities must remain fully fungible with their traditional counterparts, sharing…