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White House Targets July 4th for Clarity Act Passage, Says Crypto Advisor Patrick Witt

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The White House is targeting July 4 for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus Conference. “We’re aiming for the Fourth of July. I think it would be a great birthday present to America, […]

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Bitcoin Spot ETFs Have Solved Access, But Custody, Advisors and Plumbing Still Lag, Panelists Say

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs have overcome the long-standing barrier of entry to crypto by placing bitcoin in brokerage and advisor accounts already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years later, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that some of it worked. However, they said custody concentration, modest reliance on counselors and back-office

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Reid Hoffman says NFTs could make a comeback as AI agents strain online identity

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NFTs are expected to experience a “renaissance” as AI agents force the internet to solve new problems of identity and trust, Reid Hoffman said at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus conference on Wednesday. The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said agents transacting with other agents will need trusted digital identity systems that resemble what NFTs were originally

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Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Migration Will Be Tougher Than Taproot and Must Start Now, Says Project Eleven CEO

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The Bitcoin developer community should stop waiting for certainty on quantum computing timelines and focus on getting a post-quantum signing system into production, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Miami. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We added new crypto, we kind of

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Crypto’s mainstream moment has arrived, say industry leaders

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What was once considered a fringe speculative move is quickly becoming part of the global financial plumbing, according to Binance, Revolut and Circle (CRCL) executives speaking at Consensus Miami on Wednesday. “We were in the era of prohibition,” said Rachel Conlan, chief marketing officer at Binance. “We are now in the infrastructure phase.” Conlan said

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DTCC, Wall Street’s clearinghouse, works with blockchains to tokenize securities transactions

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The Wall Street clearinghouse is working with blockchain developers to bring online one of the least glamorous but operationally complex functions of the capital market: securities trading. Frank La Salla, CEO of Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), said Wednesday at Consensus 2026 in Miami that the market infrastructure giant is collaborating with multiple Layer

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Nasdaq Chairman Says SEC’s New Crypto Stance Allows Markets to ‘Rebuild’ Again

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Nasdaq Chairman Tal Cohen said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) changing approach to crypto regulation gives market operators more leeway to experiment with blockchain-based infrastructure and tokenized assets. Speaking at Consensus in Miami on Wednesday, Cohen said the industry now feels it can “build back” again after years of

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Bitcoin-real estate strategy could outperform REITs, says Grant Cardone. Adds more BTC to the treasury.

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Grant Cardone, a multi-billionaire real estate investor, said Wednesday he added another $100 million in bitcoin as part of a strategy combining the asset with income-generating real estate, during a fireside chat at Consensus Miami 2026. “We just added another $100 million in Bitcoin,” Cardone said, describing a recent real estate transaction in which BTC

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With AI agents becoming more relevant than humans by 2035, Big Tech is ‘terrified’, says Hoskinson

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AI agents will become more relevant than humans on the Internet over the next decade, a shift that is already forcing Google, Facebook and Amazon to respond, Charles Hoskinson said. In his keynote address at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesday, Hoskinson also said that “by 2035, the majority of search, commerce and activity on the

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The U.S. Bitcoin Reserve update will be available in the coming weeks,” a White House adviser said.

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An announcement regarding the long-awaited U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) will be made “in the coming weeks,” Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Digital Assets, said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus conference. The federal effort to inventory, centralize and secure bitcoins held in the United States BTC$81,588.84 and other digital

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