Visa, Mastercard and their infrastructure partners are moving tokenized dollars into treasury funding, settlement and payouts. The blockchain transfer is only one layer of the product.
Eric Halem was convicted of kidnapping and robbery after a crew posed as police and took a teenager's bitcoin. Two current reports say the court imposed life plus 15 years.
2 min read →Treasury has listed Coinbase among companies supporting Trump Accounts, and current reporting adds Strategy to a wider pledge drive. The accounts hold conventional diversified funds, not crypto assets.
2 min read →Eligible clients can use stablecoins on both sides of a Visa Direct transfer: to fund an account and to deliver value to a recipient. The capability is not a universal switch-on across Visa's network.
2 min read →The iShares Ethereum Trust ETF will begin split-adjusted trading on October 6. The operation changes shares and price per share, not the fund's ether exposure by itself.
2 min read →Block's SEC-filed Q1 letter shows Bitcoin Ecosystem gross profit down 26% year over year. The result exposes the economic choice behind cheaper retail trading.
2 min read →Scheduled releases, and how many of those the supplying calendar ranks as market-moving. UTC.
USDT in circulation for August 9, 2026: 183.25 billion USDT, from 183.25 billion, a change of -0.455.
This indicatorSourceUSDC in circulation for August 9, 2026: 72.18 billion USDC, from 72.18 billion, a change of -1.33 million. Released Aug 9, 2026.
This indicatorSourceUS non-farm payrolls for July 2026: 158,858 Thousands of Persons, from 158,881, a change of -23. Released Aug 7, 2026.
This indicatorSourceThe case has moved from a December 2024 armed home invasion to a jury conviction and reported life sentence. Co-defendant outcomes and restitution remain open.
2 min readEU customers should find the legal entity in their account terms, then check its status in ESMA and national registers.
2 min readInfrastructure · BriefingOndo Perps runs application logic inside secure hardware while asset transfers settle on public chains. The system is live, but several decentralisation steps remain future work.
2 min readMarkets · BriefingKalshiEX received approval to list BTCPERP as a futures contract. Approval answers the regulatory question, not whether the contract has deep liquidity or broad access.
2 min readA new technical paper examines how validators could retain incentives to perform duties under low or zero issuance. It is research input, not an EIP or a scheduled network upgrade.
3 min readBusiness · AnalysisCrypto Credential maps verified users and supported destinations before value moves. Its importance lies in the control plane around a transfer, not a new stablecoin or chain.
2 min readMarkets · AnalysisStrategy has scaled the preferred stock to $8.5 billion while building cash to service dividends. The instrument is a claim on the company, not bitcoin with a coupon.
2 min readBusiness · AnalysisBitcoin and ether safekeeping was the entry point. USDC issuance and redemption, followed by planned staking, show BNY assembling the accounting and operational layer around institutional crypto assets.
2 min readHPC leasing supplied 62% of first-quarter revenue while bitcoin output more than halved. A later Anthropic lease extends the pivot, but its long-dated contract value is not current revenue.
2 min readMarkets · DataThe March filing reports $95.9 million of IBIT call exposure alongside $24.9 million of IBIT shares, $81.2 million of ARKB and a new $3.15 million staked-ether ETF position. The filing covers the reporting manager and affiliated portfolios; it is not evidence that the bank put the same amount on its own treasury balance sheet.
2 min readPublic announcements now cover prefunding, recipient payouts and Zero Hash's infrastructure role. Availability remains limited rather than network-wide.
1 min readRegulation · AnalysisFairshake reported $125.8 million in cash through May. A lopsided Texas runoff still cannot be read as a clean referendum on crypto policy—or as proof of the next Congress.
2 min readRegulation · EventThe Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act 15-9 in May. A merged Banking-Agriculture text arrived on July 22, but lawmakers still disagree over stablecoin rewards, anti-money-laundering safeguards and restrictions on public officials' crypto businesses.
2 min readRegulation · NewsThe July 22 draft combines Senate Banking and Agriculture Committee work and includes a section on public-official ethics. Sponsors say negotiations are continuing; committee minority staff says the restrictions and enforcement mechanism remain too narrow.
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