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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."

U.S. Marshals investigate claims that son of government contractor stole $40 million of seized crypto
The threat actor was captured on video flaunting millions in crypto allegedly siphoned from U.S. government seizure addresses, later traced back by ZachXBT.

Wall Street's Jefferies sees market structure bill as tokenization inflection point
Infrastructure gains and regulatory momentum are accelerating tokenization. A market structure bill is the missing link for the next phase of digital asset adoption.

Senate Agriculture panel delays market structure hearing to Thursday after winter storm
The Senate Agriculture Committee pushed its planned markup hearing, where lawmakers would debate and vote on its market structure bill, to Thursday morning.

Market structure bill delay seen capping U.S. crypto valuations, Benchmark says
Failure to pass market structure legislation this year wouldn’t derail U.S. crypto, but it would prolong regulatory ambiguity, favoring bitcoin and infrastructure.

How a 'perpetual’ stock trick could solve Michael Saylor’s $8 billion debt problem
The bitcoin treasury firm is using perpetual preferreds to retire convertibles, offering a potential framework for managing long-dated leverage.
