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Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on

Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure

Crypto and blockchain experts say this week's moves show the two established finance companies are increasingly competing for control of the infrastructure behind digital payments.

Adrien Duchâteau, Head of Crypto GTM at Stripe (RWA Summit)

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Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push

Input Output will transfer control of the Haskell node, Plutus, Hydra and other components as founder Charles Hoskinson says the network must change and start growing again.

Charles Hoskinson during Consensus Hong Kong 2026

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Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard millions of casual users onto decentralized finance

The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization vision remains small.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev. (Getty Images)
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Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire

The securities giant announced today the consolidation of Singapore-based Coinhako as part of a rapid regional expansion that includes a tokenization partnership with Ondo Finance.

SBI Holdings at Izumi Garden Tower in Tokyo (Chris 73/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark

Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.

A wall of code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

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Live markets: Bitcoin returns to $63,000 as Nasdaq trims large early loss

A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 level it reached on this week's soft inflation print.

Memory chips (dujin yun/Pixabay)
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Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto

Crypto fell as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though a technical measure hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

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Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization

Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".

Airbnb website on a laptop

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Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds

Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.

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This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos

The mega trade aims to profit from a potential surge in ether price turbulence.

This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos. (Unsplash)
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DOG Mode vs. BIP-110: Inside the Bitcoin client built to bypass data restrictions

While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.

Leonidas's DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON token secured a coveted satoshi during the fourth Bitcoin halving. (DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON)

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Bitcoin under $63,000 after new U.S. strike on Iran. Trump's China comment adds to uncertainty

Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.

BTC's price drops below $64,000. (CoinDesk)

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$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF

T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.

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Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin
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