In this weekly recap, we cover:
- Crypto in Your 401(k): Trump signs executive order to allow crypto, private equity, and real estate in retirement accounts.
- Debanking Crackdown Coming: A new White House order aims to punish banks for political or crypto-related discrimination.
- SEC Greenlights Liquid Staking: New guidance declares certain staking tokens are not securities.
- Base Goes Down, Again: Coinbase’s layer 2 faces its second major outage after a faulty sequencer halts transactions.
- MetaMask and Stripe’s Stablecoin Leak: A pulled Aave proposal reveals early details on mmUSD, backed by M^0.
- Zhao Fights $1.8B Lawsuit: CZ moves to dismiss FTX’s clawback suit, citing lack of U.S. jurisdiction.
- CFTC’s Big Move on Spot Trading: New push to enable spot crypto assets on regulated exchanges.
- Bitcoin Steadies as Strategy Buys Big: Saylor’s firm adds over $2.4B in BTC amid record-low volatility.
- Historic Bitcoin Theft Uncovered: Arkham reveals a $15B hack from a Chinese mining pool dating back to 2020.
- CurveDAO Rethinks L2 Expansion: A new proposal urges Curve to halt new layer 2 deployments.
- China Eyes Stablecoins via Hong Kong: State-backed firms expected to pursue licensing under HK’s new rules.
- Coinbase’s Satirical Musical Banned: A cheeky UK ad gets pulled from air — but lives on across crypto Twitter.
