The central bank says its CBDC is technically ready for a September 1 mass rollout, even as polls show weak public demand and the EU has already sanctioned the currency.
The bank’s new tie-up with Circle lets institutional clients mint and redeem USDC without opening a separate account, launching first in Dubai.
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The new Digital Credit Capital Framework raises the STRC dividend to 12%, authorizes $2 billion in buybacks, and for the first time formally permits selling bitcoin at scale to fund the company’s obligations.
Vinny Lingham warned 18 months ago that Michael Saylor would harm Bitcoin more than FTX. Now he maps how the Strategy empire breaks and the one move that could slow the bleed.
On Monday, the question was whether STRC’s dip below par meant trouble. Now the entire capital stack is underwater, the common stock is at a two-year low, and a securities probe may be in the works. Here’s where Strategy stands.
The tokenization firm put its real common stock on Solana and Avalanche the same day it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, in what it says is a first for a newly public company.
The firm used the SEC’s January custodial model to put a BlackRock S&P 500 ETF and Micron shares on Ethereum, though the tokens are not yet available to US investors.
The crew is joined by Selini Capital’s Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, all aimed at the Circle and Tether duopoly. Plus Saylor’s new Digital Credit framework for MicroStrategy, the Ansem-fueled memecoin comeback, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate.
Is it Ethereum or bust? Ansgar Dietrichs makes the case that only Ethereum can anchor the financial system, and admits ETH still lacks a clear value story.
Is it Ethereum or bust? Ansgar Dietrichs makes the case that only Ethereum can anchor the financial system, and admits ETH still lacks a clear value story.
Ethereum’s co-founder published the first part of a series calling obfuscation cryptography’s most powerful tool, even as secure versions remain impractically slow.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.
Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.
The central bank says its CBDC is technically ready for a September 1 mass rollout, even as polls show weak public demand and the EU has already sanctioned the currency.
The U.S. Treasury added 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-K, the Islamic State’s Afghan and Pakistani affiliate, to its sanctions list on July 1, and Tether froze all 131 on Tron, though three Monero wallets stay beyond reach.
The Senate Banking Committee’s ranking member wants ethics language added to the Clarity Act before a floor vote, days after a filing showed Trump’s family made more than $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025.
The federal derivatives regulator says Illinois “slammed the brakes on technological progress” with a first-in-the-nation tax on crypto transfers.
Two White House executive orders accelerate U.S. quantum computing development while setting a 2030 deadline for federal agencies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, sharpening the urgency for crypto networks still weighing their own defenses.
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and the AI IPO cycle face a structural problem: a cheap, capable open source exit is already drawing enterprise users away before either company goes public.
The crew is joined by Selini Capital’s Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, all aimed at the Circle and Tether duopoly. Plus Saylor’s new Digital Credit framework for MicroStrategy, the Ansem-fueled memecoin comeback, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate.
The crew debates whether Saylor’s STRC preferred shares are “Luna for suits,” unpacks the ETH Labs spin-out and Ethereum Foundation layoffs, breaks down the CME’s lawsuit against the CFTC to kill domestic perps, and weighs whether Meta’s leaked prediction market Arena is a real threat to Polymarket.
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