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CLARITY Act Fight Over Dollar Yield and DeFi Liquidity

Since missing its Jan. 15 markup date and being pushed to the end of the month, the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act is...

DeFi community sees ‘bad’ crypto bill’s collapse as win, not setback

The latest push to establish a comprehensive U.S. crypto market structure framework hit a snag this week, but leaders in DeFi don’t seem alarmed...

MrBeast Eyes DeFi as Tom Lee’s Ethereum Treasury BitMine Invests $200 Million

In brief BitMine will invest $200 million in Beast Industries, a firm founded by YouTuber MrBeast. Beast Industries plans to debut a financial services platform. MrBeast moved...

DeFi Becomes Preferred Laundering Route For Impersonation Scams: Chainalysis

Crypto scammers are increasingly using DeFi protocols, with total losses exceeding $17 billion in 2025.Crypto scams are becoming harder to track as criminals move...

DeFi Protocols Move Away From Discord as Scam Risks Rise

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are abandoning public Discord servers, arguing that the platform has become more of a liability than a community hub. The shift...

What It Means for DeFi

What are decentralized stablecoins? A decentralized stablecoin aims to maintain a stable value while being issued and managed onchain, without...

Best Bitcoin Wallets [January 2026] – Recovery, Privacy, DeFi

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Galaxy Compares DeFi Provisions in Crypto Bill to Patriot Act Surveillance

In brief Galaxy Research says the Senate Banking draft embeds sweeping new illicit finance powers for the Treasury. The proposal includes transaction holds without court orders...

Senators pitch more than 75 amendments for crypto bill, including on yield, DeFi sections

A list of amendments — some of them far afield — is circulating for the planned markup hearing of the crypto market structure bill.

Solana Policy Institute Urges SEC Protect DeFi Developers From Regulations

Update (Jan. 13, 2026, 9.45 a.m. UTC): This article was updated to clarify the legal status and jurisdictions of recent cases involving Tornado Cash...

Sneak preview of Senate's unfinished crypto market structure bill shows DeFi protected

A partial draft of the Senate's legislation shows the bill remains blank on stablecoin rewards and has some protections for decentralized finance, but they're...

Senator Lummis offers DeFi protections bill as broader market structure draft nears

Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced a standalone bill to press a key point on how blockchain software developers are treated, though crypto market structure observers...