US House and Senate negotiators agreed to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030, folded into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.

Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, spent over $12 million to push Barry Moore to a 56% win in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, its biggest single-race bet of 2026.

HYPE futures open interest rose 32% in a week to about $3B, while stock and index perps on Hyperliquid hit $2.9B in OI, overtaking Bitcoin on the venue.

BNB Chain says $SPXCB is live on PancakeSwap, giving 24/7 onchain exposure to SpaceX (SPCX) days after the company's record Nasdaq debut. Here is what it is.

China signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network, per CoinDesk. Here is why it matters.

A bipartisan group led by Cynthia Lummis is urging the Treasury to clarify how state authority works under the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law.

Coinbase is launching tokenized stock trading with 1:1 backed onchain shares and dividend payments, joining a tokenization race that already includes DTCC and Binance.

Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech at $3.3B, as it pushes deeper into cross-border payments and stablecoin settlement in Africa.

Reuters reports Binance's application for an EU MiCA license is heading for rejection, weeks before the transition deadline that forces unlicensed exchanges out.

Mirae Asset, a $721B manager, signed an MOU with Ondo Finance to tokenize US-listed ETFs through Global X, including a covered-call ETF share class in Q3 2026.