Sep 21, 2026
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Jess Kowalski · 19 minutes ago
about 4 hours ago
Strategy's Michael Saylor is framing the Clarity Act's Senate collapse as a positive for crypto. His logic holds for bitcoin treasuries, less so for the rest of the industry. Here's what matters going forward.
about 5 hours ago
Binance Futures is launching 24/7 FX perpetuals, starting with a USD/BRL contract against USDT on September 21 and up to 100x margin. It's the exchange's boldest push into a market that still clocks out on Friday afternoon.
about 6 hours ago
Bastion just won conditional OCC approval to form a national trust bank under Corporate Decision 1391. It's a bigger deal than it sounds, and it tells you exactly where crypto custody is heading.
about 11 hours ago
Dated Bitcoin futures on crypto-native exchanges have lost about 97% of their volume since 2021, while options grew from a quarter of open interest to nearly half. The futures market didn't die, it split in two, and one of those pieces is barely holding on.
about 11 hours ago
The CLARITY Act's cloture vote failed, and Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad says the votes were there while the process wasn't. It matters because the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve was built by executive order, not statute, and that's a lease with an expiration date nobody controls.
about 12 hours ago
A UK fintech firm ran 121 personal finance questions through 18 AI models and got roughly 10,000 answers back. Mainstream models failed 57% of them, and that number hit 88% once the questions got harder. Here's why that matters more than the usual benchmark noise.
about 12 hours ago
Binance Wallet and PancakeSwap just launched Pre-Access campaigns offering tokenized exposure to private companies before they go public. The first project hasn't been named yet, and the fine print is where things get interesting.
about 13 hours ago
The European Commission's MiCA review dedicates just one item to staking, but the answer could determine whether yields stay competitive and whether networks keep enough validators online. Here's what's actually at stake.
about 13 hours ago
California's Proposition 40 would slap a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth, with roughly $100 billion at stake. Six Nobel-winning economists just endorsed it, and Ripple's Chris Larsen has spent over $10 million to kill it. The vote is November 3.
about 14 hours ago
XRP climbed past $1.38 after Ripple connected the token to Stripe's payment tools on September 17, but the coin gave back $1.40 support in a hurry. Volume is up, the bull case is thin, and the real test comes this week.
about 14 hours ago
The Bank of Russia's Sept. 18 draft sets a brutal 1% capital cap on crypto. But the fine print carves out client custody assets, and that distinction is what actually protects depositors. Here's the mechanic everyone on CT missed.
about 15 hours ago
People born between 1997 and 2012 make up less than 5% of new home purchases, and Hunter Albright of SALT Lending thinks that's less a crisis than a signal. His answer: borrow against your Bitcoin for a down payment, keep the coins, and pay it back over five years instead of thirty. The interesting part isn't the loan. It's who's starting to underwrite it.
about 15 hours ago
T. Rowe Price's digital assets chief says the bond vigilantes are back, foreign Treasury buyers are fading, and bitcoin now sits at the center of the debasement conversation. She's also skeptical that GENIUS Act stablecoins will magically create massive T-bill demand. Here's why that matters for anyone holding crypto as a hedge.
about 15 hours ago
Strategy CEO Phong Le says the company's goal isn't holding Bitcoin, it's becoming the JPMorgan of a digital asset economy that could reach 8 billion people. The real tell is the $15 billion digital credit platform, and DeFi builders matter more to its future than anything Strategy ships itself.
about 15 hours ago
The Clarity Act's cloture vote failed this week, and Coinbase's Faryar Shirzad says it wasn't ideology that killed it. It was roughly $200 million in bank spending and an electoral clock that ran out. His message: Congress is done, the SEC and CFTC are the real game now.