The CLARITY Act is on the Senate floor calendar and the House will move fast. Now it comes down to finding seven Democratic votes before the August recess.

U.S. CFTC permanently banned Alex Mashinsky from regulated trading, closing its Celsius case while SEC claims and sentence challenge continue.

Senator Bill Hagerty has renewed expectations that Congress could advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the July 4 recess, even as several lawmakers continue to caution that final Senate action may take longer. According to comments made by…

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.

Standard Chartered projects $4 billion to $8 billion in XRP ETF inflows if CLARITY passes, 3-6x today. The math rests on a 1.16 billion XRP sell wall at $1.45.

BitGo names Angela Ang as APAC managing director and Singapore president, bringing MAS and TRM experience to its regional growth plans.

Kentucky sues Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull over sports event contracts as prediction market cases grow nationwide.

Bitget EU files its MiCAR application with Austria’s FMA as the exchange says existing global user access remains under current terms online

Gov. JB Pritzker signs 0.2% digital asset tax into Illinois’ $55.9B budget, drawing industry warnings over users, brokers, and remote firms.

Kalshi says perpetual futures volume crossed $5.5B in two weeks as it studies more contracts and plans to expand beyond crypto assets later.

Senators press Treasury to keep state regulators in the GENIUS Act stablecoin process as final rulemaking moves ahead after comments closed.

US-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures could give retail and institutional traders new ways to access crypto derivatives.