
Fed Holds Rates Steady With Three Dissents on Inflation Bias
FOMC keeps rates unchanged but drops easing bias as three officials dissent. BTC at $75,008 with Fear & Greed at 38, traders read a hawkish hold.
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FOMC keeps rates unchanged but drops easing bias as three officials dissent. BTC at $75,008 with Fear & Greed at 38, traders read a hawkish hold.

Meta is rolling out stablecoin payouts for creators through Stripe, its first live crypto payments product since the Diem wind-down.

Kevin Warsh advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee toward a full vote, putting a hawkish-leaning Fed chair within reach as crypto trades flat.

Wall Street is filing the first prediction market ETFs for US elections, pulling political odds out of crypto venues and into regulated brokerage wrappers.

MoonPay buys Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm Sodot for $100M in stock, adding MPC key management to its payments and wallet infrastructure stack.

Binance's gold futures product has cleared $100 billion in cumulative trading volume just months after launch, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.

Visa expands its stablecoin settlement rails to Polygon, letting issuers and acquirers move USDC across a faster, cheaper chain alongside Ethereum and Solana.

Securitize and Computershare are partnering to let US public-company shares settle as tokenized assets, opening a path for $70T in equities to move onchain.

State Street, the world

Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide as scam losses mount, following Tennessee