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Illinois Enacts the Strictest Digital-Asset Tax in the US as Industry Group Urges Veto

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed SB 3019, the Digital Asset Privilege Tax Act, making the state the first in the country to impose...

Kalshi Eyes Broader Asset Classes for Perpetual Futures After $5.5B Crypto Launch

After generating $5.5 billion in trading volume in two weeks, Kalshi is pushing to extend its CFTC-regulated perpetual futures beyond crypto into a wider...

Bitcoin (BTC) layer-2s face a bear-market reality check

The distinction matters. Wrapped bitcoin products such as WBTC, Coinbase's cbBTC and Circle's recently announced synthetic bitcoin product already allow BTC to circulate in...

World Chain Bridge TVL Climbs 33% Over Seven Days as Worldcoin Token Posts Matching Rally

World Chain's canonical-bridge TVL climbed 32.87% over seven days to about $602M, with WLD tracking the move at +33.6%. The growth concentrates in Re7...

Gaming Industry, Tribes and Unions Press Senate to Ban Sports Prediction Markets in Crypto Bill

The American Gaming Association, the Indian Gaming Association, and two hospitality unions are pressing senators to insert sports-betting carve-out language into the CLARITY Act,...

Litecoin Spot ETF Sits at $9M as Altcoin-ETF Era Tests Its Demand Thesis

The first US spot Litecoin ETF has been trading for nearly eight months, but Canary Capital's LTCC has drawn under $10 million as LTC...

Kentucky targets prediction markets, puts red state in potential clash with Trump team

“This action runs counter to the CFTC's established framework for regulating prediction markets,” the spokesperson said in a statement emailed to CoinDesk.So far, the...

Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse Open First Confidential USDC Yield Vault on Ethereum

Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse open the first DeFi yield vault for Confidential USDC on June 23, routing encrypted cUSDC into Steakhouse Prime v2 on...

Fidelity joins Wall Street’s race to manage stablecoin reserves

The GENIUS Act, signed into law last year, established the first federal framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. Among other requirements, issuers...

Congress Strikes Housing-Bill Deal That Bans Fed CBDC Through 2030

Congressional negotiators folded a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency into the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, blocking...

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CLARITY Act Could Help CFTC Deal with Prediction Markets: Lawyer

Lawmakers in the US House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee...

Crypto Clarity Act still at mercy of ethics section as Democrats balk at Trump deal

August 7 — the fast-approaching final day before the...

Pakistan Steps up Crypto Enforcement with Dedicated Federal Unit

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Bitcoin (BTC) price rally faces real test at $68,000 as ‘summer slumber’ grips crypto, analysts say

Spot market conditions have improved after months of weakness,...

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 months after token scandal

An April 2025 CoinDesk investigation found that Movement was...