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Crypto's political power supercharged with $193 million in Fairshake, thanks to new cash
The industry's chief campaign-finance arm got another $49 million and already outpaces what it had in the last U.S. congressional races, when it aided dozens of wins.
MegaETH mainnet to go live Feb. 9 in major test of ‘real-time’ Ethereum scaling
This follows its October 2025 $450 million token sale that was heavily oversubscribed.
Wall Street giants push back on exemptions for tokenized securities in SEC meeting
Executives and industry groups pressed regulators to apply traditional securities rules to blockchain-based trading, pushing back on exemptions even as DeFi enters the debate.
The Protocol: Ethereum to roll out new AI agents standard soon
Plus: Solana’s latest phase, OP token buybacks and EF post-quantum security team.
Criminal use of crypto spikes after years of steady decline, TRM report says
While the increasingly professional bad guys' crypto rocketed to $158 billion in 2025, it's still a decreasing share of overall digital assets activity.
Circle faces first major 'threat' for institutional dollars from Tether’s USAT
While Circle's USDC has operated without a "credible domestic competitor," Tether's USAT has the potential to shake up the landscape, analysts said.
Crypto faces fork in the road as Clarity Act support wavers, Bitwise says
The asset manager argued that without federal legislation, the industry has three years to become indispensable before political winds potentially shift.
Rick Rieder, a rising favorite for Trump's Fed chair pick, sees bitcoin as new gold
As Trump mulls the next leader of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the BlackRock executive has caught a surge of online wagers, and he'd bring a pro-crypto view.
Privacy-focused Miden, Korea Digital Asset agree to build crypto infrastructure for institutional adoption
The partnership focuses on privacy, compliance and standards for regulated digital-asset adoption in South Korea.
Deus X CEO Tim Grant: We aren't replacing finance; we're integrating it
The Deus X CEO discussed his journey into digital assets, the company's infrastructure-led growth strategy, and why his Consensus Hong Kong panel promises "real talk only."
