July 13, 2026
Trump Invokes Graham’s Death to Press Senate on Clarity Act as Republican Majority Narrows
The president tied the crypto market structure bill to the late senator, but the ethics fight blocking 60 votes is unchanged.
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The president tied the crypto market structure bill to the late senator, but the ethics fight blocking 60 votes is unchanged.
A Treasury-backed roadmap gives tokenization a timetable, naming BlackRock, JPMorgan and Ripple to move repo, bonds and funds from pilots to live trading.
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Michael Saylor and Adam Back came out against the anti-spam soft fork days before an early-August activation deadline it appears certain to miss.
Strategy sold $260M of Bitcoin at a loss to fund dividends. Parker White of Apyx makes the case that it is smarter than it sounds.
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.
OUSD’s announcement sent Circle’s stock into a free fall. But how much of a threat does the new stablecoin actually pose?
Grewal, who ran Coinbase’s courtroom battle against the SEC and its Washington policy push, will leave as chief legal officer on July 31; Molly Abraham, a vice president of legal, takes over as general counsel.
Robinhood Chain perps now run on Lighter. Vlad Novakovski maps the revenue split, the USDG collateral risk, and the race for a US perps license.
Strategy sold $260M of Bitcoin at a loss to fund dividends. Parker White of Apyx makes the case that it is smarter than it sounds.
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.
Joseph Chalom lays out why Ethereum Institutional exists, how it differs from Etherealize, and why he thinks Michael Saylor is in a pickle.
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.
A Treasury-backed roadmap gives tokenization a timetable, naming BlackRock, JPMorgan and Ripple to move repo, bonds and funds from pilots to live trading.
The president tied the crypto market structure bill to the late senator, but the ethics fight blocking 60 votes is unchanged.
The central bank says data-analytics tools caught high-volume Tether transactions structured to dodge disclosure, and it has handed the cases to the securities regulator that oversees digital assets.
B20, now live on Base mainnet, runs tokens as native code in the chain and bakes in roles, blocklists, and freeze-and-seize powers aimed at stablecoin and real-world-asset issuers.
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.
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto’s oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist. The gang digs into the Venice/VVV controversy, breaks down Lighter’s new Perps integration with Robinhood Chain and the fragmentation questions it raises, dissects the wild BonkDAO governance exploit, and reacts to the eye-popping $2.4 billion in crypto income disclosed in Trump’s financial filings.
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.
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