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The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), a panel of three prominent economists who advise the President of the United States, published a study on April 8 that seriously undermines the American banking lobby's stance on stablecoin yields. With the Senate committee vote on the CLARITY Act scheduled for
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Last Thursday, the IMF published its first major note of 2026 on tokenization, and the framing is deliberately institutional. Rather than treating the phenomenon as a technological upgrade to existing rails, the Fund positions it as a structural migration of trust: away from regulated intermediaries and toward shared infrastructure and
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Since January 2024 and the approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, the market has coalesced into a de facto duopoly. BlackRock’s IBIT on one side, now surpassing $50 billion in assets under management. Fidelity’s FBTC on the other, firmly established in second place.
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The Iranian crisis has served as an unexpected stress test for decentralized trading infrastructure — and the results deserve close attention from asset allocators. While traditional venues observed their usual opening hours, DeFi platforms operated without interruption, absorbing a wave of activity that had little to do with crypto itself. The
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On Sunday, March 22, the stablecoin USR — issued by the Resolv protocol — lost its dollar peg after an attacker exploited a compromised private key to mint roughly 80 million tokens against a trivial collateral deposit. The incident resulted in an estimated $25 million extraction and triggered cascading effects across several
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The modest rebound that had been taking shape since early March is now over. On Wednesday, Bitcoin gave back roughly 7.3% from its weekly high, pulling the broader market down with it, off nearly 8%. Crypto ETFs, which had recorded $1.36 billion in net inflows the previous week,
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Last week, Strategy’s STRC preferred shares reached a significant milestone, hitting a series of daily volume records with trades oscillating between $267 million and $747 million. The catalyst for this surge is clear: the announcement of an 11.5% dividend rate on a $100 par value per share. It
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Since the escalation of tensions between the United States, Israel, and Iran in late February 2026, traditional financial markets have been navigating a classic risk-off environment: the S&P 500 has shed 3% since the onset of hostilities, rising oil prices are feeding inflation expectations, and gold — ostensibly
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The latest flare-up in Middle East tensions has once again underscored a structural lag in traditional commodities markets when geopolitical shocks hit. Over a weekend marked by strikes on energy infrastructure and rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, oil went through a sharp bout of price discovery that
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The Bitcoin mining sector is currently navigating a period of significant volatility. For over a month, profitability has remained in the red; production costs now frequently exceed generated revenue, placing operators under genuine financial strain. Between the recent price correction and the reduction in block rewards following the last halving,
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Circle reached a symbolic milestone this week at its latest earnings call. The company beat sales forecasts by 2.8% in Q4, posting sales of $770 million, $21 million above consensus. But it was on net profitability that the biggest surprise came: earnings per share (EPS) came in at $0.
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Analysis of the market structure at the end of February reveals a basic trend: persistent stagnation, punctuated by episodes of technical volatility. Despite an attempt to break below the critical support of $65,000, Bitcoin was quickly bought back, confirming the importance of this threshold for traders. Fragmented and reactive