Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the ECB and EBA want the Commission's MiCA review to ban stablecoin yield and tighten DeFi access. By his account, EU providers would keep DeFi access only for users who pass suitability tests, and perhaps only to protocols the authorities certify.
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Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.
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Stand With Crypto EU got more than 50,000 Europeans to write to the Commission's MiCA review asking that stablecoins be allowed to pay holders rewards. Europe's central banks used the same review to ask that the ban also cover lending, borrowing and staking yield, so the rule could end up wider as easily as looser.
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Citi is adding Coinbase-run stablecoin checkout to its merchant services, and one report says the bank will hold digital dollars that earn 3.75%. Whether that reward reaches Citi's customers decides if a major bank has joined the side of the yield fight its industry opposes.
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A bill that began as a security-or-commodity question now includes a standby power over stablecoin rewards if community banks start losing deposits. The Treasury secretary decides when it fires.
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The Coinbase CEO says the Wall Street Journal is preparing to blame him for the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, and he has put his own account of January on the record while the SEC and CFTC say they will write crypto's rules themselves.
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A single account of spring 2026 puts liquid-staking TVL at a two-year low of $30 billion. The useful part is not the headline number but which yields survived the compression.
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