This week puts two events on the calendar that trading desks have been circling for a month. On September 15, the Senate holds a cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the bill that would finally split securities and commodities oversight of digital assets between the SEC and CFTC.

Central banks are done debating whether stablecoins are useful. The real question is whether they are money at all, and the Bank for International Settlements just gave its answer.

The bill that promised to finally answer what a digital asset legally is just missed its own deadline. Here's what it changes anyway, and why it stalled.

The week of June 1 to 7 produced ten significant developments across markets, legislation, corporate strategy, and geopolitics. Taken individually, each one tells a partial story. Taken together, they describe a market that has matured in some ways and remains structurally vulnerable in others, and an asset class that is now deeply embedded in the same forces it was once presumed to operate independently from.

The Fed chair transition and the legislative environment around digital assets are not parallel stories. They are converging ones. A Fed chair who is openly comfortable with Bitcoin as an asset class and opposed to a retail CBDC is arriving at precisely the moment when Congress is attempting to pass the most consequential digital asset legislation in US history. That convergence is structurally significant in ways that go well beyond any short-term price narrative.

Nearly $750 billion in Bitcoin faces quantum vulnerability. Understanding the timeline matters more than the threat itself.

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Key Insights from Davos: Tokenization, Regulations, and Crypto's Global Integration

Feb 16, 2025 18:30 UTC – Why true digital freedom lies in decentralized platforms and how big tech is fighting to keep control. A Digital Revolution or A Rigged Game? For years, the internet was sold to the world as a revolutionary tool for free expression, innovation, and limitless possibility. But somewhere between the utopian dream of an open, decentralized web and today’s hyper-moderated, profit-driven, surveillance-heavy dystopia, something went horribly wrong. Enter Bi