Archives for September 15, 2026

The latest system was introduced this summer to replace the previous token-holder voting process and give shielded balances much stronger privacy guarantees. Holders also voted 96.6% to wait until February 2031 before beginning to reissue ZEC collected through the Network Sustainability Mechanism, or NSM. How this helps Zcash The planned system removes funds from circulation, […]

Crypto traders holding long, or bullish, futures bets have taken a sharp hit over the past 24 hours after the Clarity Act failed a Senate procedural vote. Exchanges liquidated about $571 million in long positions in that window, the highest tally since Aug. 22, according to CoinGlass. Shorts, or bearish bets, accounted for only about […]

She also said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission lacks the staffing to implement the law, and that the bill left gaps on money laundering and terrorist financing. Today, I voted no on the Clarity Act, legislation meant to regulate cryptocurrency in America. The ethics provisions in this bill are simply too thin. President Trump, his […]

When the legislative talks picked up pace again, it was already late in the congressional session, with lobbyists and lawmakers well aware that the election was looming that would make it harder to secure bipartisan legislative work. All along, the ethics question stood as the center of debate and the aspect that needed to be […]

Crypto stocks were a sea of red Tuesday afternoon after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to an industry that has spent years — and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions — gunning for a comprehensive U.S. regulatory framework. Coinbase COIN$172.05·Market Closed was down nearly 9% at $174.42, while […]

The Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act on Tuesday was a major setback for the crypto industry’s push to lock market structure rules into law, but the reaction from industry leaders was notably measured. Crypto executives said the vote does not unwind the regulatory progress already underway at the SEC and CFTC, nor is […]

Negotiators for the two political parties had hashed out more than 600 pages of legislative compromise, but a few final sections of the bill — such as the ethics provisions meant to curtail senior government officials from maintaining crypto business ties — turned out to feature insurmountable rifts. And the closer the process dragged toward […]

Kamino KMNO$0.02480 , one of Solana’s largest lending protocols with $1.4 billion of assets, is setting up shop in New York as it looks to bring its onchain credit business closer to Wall Street and expanding to tokenized assets. On Tuesday, the company named Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as CEO to lead that push. Kamino […]

The White House countered the bankers’ concerns on Tuesday by posting economic data suggesting the worries are misguided. Jaret Seiberg, a policy analyst at TD Cowen, set the odds for a failure in the opening vote at 60%. In that scenario, he said, “Democrats, including those who are crypto friendly, decide the GOP changes are […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Tuesday called on e-commerce and mobile commerce merchants in the euro zone to join a digital euro pilot as it prepares a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) for possible issuance in 2029. The pilot will test the technology, operational processes and user experience of a beta version of […]