Key senators critical to advancing crypto market structure legislation may soon be willing to move forward on the bill, people familiar with it told CoinDesk. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter that examines the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to subscribe to future editions. Crypto dealmakers’ hopes are bubbling around the […]
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Yuval Rooz has a blunt message for the smart contract industry: if you claim to be the future plumbing of global finance, you better show cash flow. “People have assigned a lot of value to these networks based on what they say they will become,” said Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset and co-founder of Canton
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Six asset classes now exceed $1 billion on-chain, but only 12% of the RWA-backed stablecoin supply has entered DeFi protocols. Real-world tokenized assets, excluding stablecoins, surpassed $25 billion in on-chain value, nearly quadrupling from $6.4 billion about a year earlier, according to data from RWA.xyz. (RWA.xyz) This milestone and continued growth, as RWAs reach the
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XRP declined slightly after a technical breakdown earlier in the session, with buyers now attempting to stabilize the price near the $1.35 support zone. News context XRP has remained under pressure over the past few sessions as the token trades within a broader corrective structure that has persisted since late February. Price action has largely
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Cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase (COIN) said new US tax reporting requirements are too onerous for many crypto holders and add unnecessary clutter to the country’s tax system. While the idea is that taxable activity on cryptocurrencies should be reported in the same way as for stocks, for example, the rules require reporting transactions in stablecoins
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The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies within the broader framework of the United States’ efforts to maintain its leadership in emerging technologies. In a section focused on maintaining “superiority in critical and emerging technologies,” the document says the government will support the security of “cryptocurrencies and
The dominant discourse around prediction markets still focuses on elections and sports. Sports represent the majority of volumes in large sites, and it is electoral contracts that place this category in the headlines. But based on what active traders actually do with real money, prediction markets are developing for an even more impactful purpose: they
BlackRock’s Rick Rieder, UBS’s Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb envision an economy in 2026 that could continue to grow even as the market’s center of gravity shifts. The overall message emerging from their various appearances at a conference in Miami last week was not that the AI boom was about to end.
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Latin America’s crypto market is growing much faster than that of the United States, as users increasingly rely on cryptocurrencies for cross-border payments and transfers rather than speculation. claims a new report. The region, according to a report by Argentinian crypto firm Lemon, received over $730 billion in cryptocurrency trading volume in 2025, an increase
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Block CEO Jack Dorsey said his company would support stablecoins, even though he has long argued that Bitcoin should serve as the internet’s native monetary protocol. In an interview with WIRED, Dorsey acknowledged the change while clarifying that it reflects customer demand rather than a change in personal belief. “I don’t like that we support
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