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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.

Wall Street analyst defends Michael Saylor's Strategy after stock trades 64% below his lofty price target
Analyst Lance Vitanza noted the role of the company’s preferred equity in last week’s $2.1 billion bitcoin purchase.

Massachusetts judge poised to tell Kalshi to stop taking sports bets in state
The prediction market platform Kalshi will be preliminarily ordered by a superior court justice in Massachusetts to halt its online sports business there.

Trump's new CFTC chief Selig starts 'future-proof' initiative to champion crypto
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig signals an intent to set crypto policy into formal rules that would be hard to reverse down the road.
