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Institutional plumbing around digital assets, including how traditional financial gatekeepers treat crypto exposure.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
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Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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The Senate's 49-50 cloture vote leaves the question of when a token is a security inside SEC and CFTC rulemaking. Institutions weighing capital commitments now underwrite rules a future agency can rewrite.
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Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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Open interest reached $14.669bn while builder-deployed HIP-3 markets shrank by about $200m, so core perps added roughly $4bn in a month, and core routes about 99 per cent of its fees into HYPE buybacks.
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Two months past the July 1 cutoff, the exchange with more than 45% of global spot volume still holds no MiCA licence. The visible regulatory step so far: ESMA asking for confirmation that the wind-down is real.
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The aggregate says buybacks buy nothing, which is true of the median program and false of the two protocols that are almost all of the spending, one of them up 145% in a market down 11.9%.
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Five former SEC and CFTC officials told the agencies that miscalibrated rules keep pushing perpetual futures offshore, and they filed the argument while Congress is on recess and the definitions are still being drafted.
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Eight sessions of net buying is the strongest evidence yet that the bid is institutional, but daily size has fallen 62% from the peak and 72% of the money came from a single fund.
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One price level separates a paper loss from a paper profit at Michael Saylor's company. The cushion on 840,447 coins works out to $3,015 each.
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A $2.8 billion day on decentralized exchanges annualizes to under 2% of Circle's quarterly settlement flow. The concentration worth pricing sits in the chain, not the chart.
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Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled $606 million on August 20, and IBIT kept $503 million of it. The month's record total is mostly one issuer, and the first fund liquidation shows why.
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Monthly volume in tokenized equities went from $1B in January to $9B, with most of the move in June and July. The product did not change. The front ends did.
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Binance's bStocks passed xStocks in under two months to become the second-largest issuer. The category grew roughly 34x in a year, and the leaderboard now rewards whoever already owns the order flow.
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Tether Gold took $237M of the 30-day inflow at a $2.48B cap. XAUT and Paxos Gold together hold 93-97% of the category, and that concentration is the thing to underwrite.
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MSCI dropped its crypto-specific exclusion test, but the replacement simulation still deleted Strategy, Metaplanet and Yellow Cake from ACWI IMI. Feedback closes end-September, results mid-October.
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