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Stablecoin Market Hits $310B Ceiling; Exchange Inflows Halve to $70B

Stablecoin market cap peaked at $310B in Dec 2025, but exchange inflows have since collapsed by 50%, signaling a defensive shift in capital deployment.

January 5, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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Visa Crypto Card Spend Explosions 525% as EtherFi Dominates Volume

Visa-partnered crypto card spending hit $91.3 million in December 2025, with EtherFi's card product driving over 60% of the total volume.

January 5, 2026 • Andrea Mazáčová • No comments

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CLARITY Act Heads to Senate Markup Jan 15; State Powers on Chopping Block

Senate Banking Committee sets January 15 markup date for the CLARITY Act, igniting a battle over state preemption and DeFi exemptions as Bitcoin hovers near…

January 4, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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Torres Files ‘Public Integrity’ Bill After Polymarket Trader Nets 1,200% on Maduro Raid

A suspicious 13x return on Maduro's capture prompts Rep. Ritchie Torres to introduce legislation extending STOCK Act bans to prediction markets.

January 4, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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Polymarket Whales Front-Run Maduro Capture; Torres Drafts ‘Insider’ Ban

Three fresh wallets netted $630,000 on Polymarket hours before Maduro's arrest, prompting Rep. Ritchie Torres to propose a ban on federal officials trading event contracts.

January 4, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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MiCA’s Hollow Victory: Euro Stablecoins Hit 91% Dominance, But Liquidity is fractured

MiCA-compliant tokens captured 91% of the market, but a liquidity mismatch between Bitvavo, Kraken, and Binance is silently killing execution quality.

January 4, 2026 • Andrea Mazáčová • No comments

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Coinbase Severs Argentine Fiat Rails; ARS Trading Ends Jan 31

The exchange retreats from its 2025 expansion, cutting off the ARS-USDC bridge in one of LatAm's highest-volume crypto markets.

January 4, 2026 • Andrea Mazáčová • No comments

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Torres Moves to Ban Prediction Market Insider Trading After Prescient $400K Maduro Bet

Rep. Ritchie Torres targets prediction market 'insiders' with new legislation after a suspicious Polymarket account netted 1,200% on Maduro's capture hours before the news broke.

January 4, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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Trump’s Venezuela Raid Spooks Macro; Bitcoin Holds $91K as ETFs Absorb $646M

Institutional inflows topped $646M ahead of the weekend raid, as Bitcoin decouples from macro affordability fears.

January 4, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments

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Bitfinex Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein Released; ‘First Step Act’ Cuts Sentence by 75%

Ilya Lichtenstein serves only 14 months of his 5-year sentence, leveraging Trump's First Step Act credits in a move that questions the deterrents for crypto…

January 3, 2026 • Kiran Maatman • No comments