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AI infrastructure firm secures up to $500 million onchain loan after bypassing banks
The credit facility used GPU hardware as tokenized collateral, enabling faster capital access without traditional credit checks.
Bank lobby targets stablecoin yield and open banking in policy push
The American Bankers Association’s latest priorities aim to limit how digital dollars earn returns and how financial data is shared as lawmakers debate U.S. crypto market structure legislation.
Crypto bill likely delayed for weeks by Banking Committee after Coinbase pulled its support
The momentum for new crypto rules in Washington has slowed to a crawl and and it is not expected to resume for at least several weeks.
Senate Agriculture publishes own version of market structure bill without bipartisan support
The industry's great legislative hope is shifting to the U.S. Senate's Agriculture Committee, which released its own draft of the contentious oversight effort.
Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary on betting big on data centers and why most crypto tokens will never come back
The Shark Tank investor is preparing shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners and data centers, betting that infrastructure — not tokens — will drive the next wave of value.
Private credit may be the breakout use case for tokenization: Maple's Sidney Powell
Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell said blockchain’s biggest opportunity isn’t tokenized Treasury bills or funds — instead, it’s bringing opaque, illiquid private credit markets onchain.
Senate's next market structure draft likely pro-crypto, but industry insiders are worried Democrats may not be on board
The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee's next draft is expected to shield developers from liability, insiders have been advised, but it may without Democrat backing.
Bitcoin turns negative for 2026 as Trump's calming Greenland remarks fail to reverse slide
There was a modest bounce after the president said the U.S. had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but prices quickly resumed their decline.
Trump’s AI and crypto czar says crypto and traditional banks will become ‘one industry’
Sacks believes the divide between banking and crypto industries will disappear, with banks potentially seeing stablecoin issuance as a way to enter the market.
Trump vows to make U.S. the crypto capital of the world to beat China
U.S. President Donald Trump said he supported efforts to legislate crypto because of the political support he received for doing so.
