Morning Minute: Clarity Act Vote Falls Short as Democrats All Vote ‘No’
It should not have come as a surprise given the odds, but crypto majors, alts and memes all sold off anyway in the wake.
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It should not have come as a surprise given the odds, but crypto majors, alts and memes all sold off anyway in the wake.
With Bitcoin sitting around $76,000, the argument from analysts is that dollar liquidity, not Congress, sets the floor from here.
The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.
Nearly 99% of ZEC holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds, while keeping ZEC issuance and halving schedules unchanged.
Cointelegraph · 5 days ago
Circle’s Arc mainnet is live with USDC for transaction fees, support for more than 20 fiat stablecoins and links to over 20 blockchains.
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Two Prime expands into onchain finance with a bitcoin lending vault built on Pareto for institutional investors.
Bitcoin is stuck near $80,000 as traders build stablecoin positions that could return to the market once Fed uncertainty clears.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million, the most since June, as the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act sent regulatory-sensitive tokens sharply lower.
The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut, including bitcoin and ether and stablecoins like USDC and EURC.
The privacy token is up 130% over 30 days and trades near its all-time highs from 2016, while bitcoin sits at a three-and-a-half-week low below $76,000.
Germany’s largest bank is awaiting regulatory approval to launch institutional custody solutions for Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins before expanding into tokenized assets.
The USDC issuer's chain is built for payments, tokenized assets and institutional finance as banks and payment giants pile into the stablecoin market.
CoinDesk · 5 days ago
Bitcoin miners generated 35% of the state-owned power producer’s revenue last year, but declining reservoir inflows led the utility to prioritize households and manufacturers.
Italy is probing the Revolut-linked breach after its cyber agency reported more than 650 cases involving abused or illicit certified email accounts.
Weakening U.S. demand, a setback for the Clarity act and expectations of a fed rate hike weigh on bitcoin.
Bitcoin exchange demand on Coinbase declined after the US Senate voted against the CLARITY Act, while traders sent BTC to exchanges at an unrealized loss.
U.S. prosecutors allege two engineers used confidential Robinhood token listing data to front-run announcements using Hyperliquid perpetual futures.
CoinDesk · 5 days ago