World Liberty Financial applies for a federal OCC bank charter to vertically integrate its $3.3B USD1 stablecoin, testing the new GENIUS Act framework.
Senate Agriculture and Banking Committees schedule simultaneous January 15 markups for crypto legislation, aiming to merge drafts before the midterm freeze.
Polymarket odds will now appear on The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch, signaling the institutional acceptance of prediction markets following the platform's $112M QCEX acquisition.
Bitcoin slides 2% to $91,631 as a security incident involving an Arbitrum USDC vault and capital rotation into soaring tech stocks dampen crypto market sentiment.
Institutions have absorbed $1.65 billion in XRP while exchange balances hit multi-year lows, creating a classic supply squeeze as the XRP/BTC ratio signals a 2018-style…