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BlackRock's BUIDL Pushed Avalanche's Tokenized Asset Total Past $1.16B
DeFi

BlackRock's BUIDL Pushed Avalanche's Tokenized Asset Total Past $1.16B

A single allocation of BlackRock's $2.85B USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund drove more than half of Avalanche's distributed real-world asset total on a 58% two-week jump, putting the network behind only Ethereum among institutional tokenization venues.
160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume
Regulation & Politics

160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume

A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.
SEC Names Digital Asset Rulemaking Top Priority in Draft Strategic Plan
Regulation & Politics

SEC Names Digital Asset Rulemaking Top Priority in Draft Strategic Plan

The Atkins-era Commission's FY26-FY30 plan places a 'firm regulatory foundation for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies' as the first objective of its first goal, opening a public-comment window through July 2 on a multi-year operating constraint that binds policy, examiner and enforcement capacity.
Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps
TradFi & Fintech

Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps

The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.
Fed, OCC and FDIC Strip 'Reputation Risk' From 15 Interagency Guidance Documents
Regulation & Politics

Fed, OCC and FDIC Strip 'Reputation Risk' From 15 Interagency Guidance Documents

Tuesday's joint action by the three tier-1 US bank regulators completes the rewrite of supervisory text that crypto firms and Wyoming digital-asset bank Custodia spent years alleging was used to push lawful businesses out of the banking system.
NYDFS and European Banking Authority Sign Cross-Atlantic Stablecoin Supervision MoU
Regulation & Politics

NYDFS and European Banking Authority Sign Cross-Atlantic Stablecoin Supervision MoU

The 22-page memorandum is the first formal supervisory link between the New York regulator licensing Circle, Paxos and Gemini and the EU body overseeing MiCA stablecoin issuers, committing both authorities to quarterly reserve-data exchange as the GENIUS Act and MiCA move toward enforcement.
US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'
Regulation & Politics

US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, along with their leadership, naming the exchanges as the digital-asset rails for Iran's central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade
TradFi & Fintech

Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.
Anchorage Digital Becomes Collateral Manager for Ethena's Institutional Lending
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Becomes Collateral Manager for Ethena's Institutional Lending

The OCC-chartered crypto bank will hold borrower collateral in segregated custody and run real-time margining for Ethena's overcollateralized loan book, configuring DeFi-native lending around bank-grade controls.
Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances
Blockchains

Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances

The Solana Foundation has deployed a single onchain program that any merchant, payroll operator, or wallet can build recurring billing, capped agent allowances, and contractor pulls on top of, putting a native primitive into the rail layer that Stripe Billing, Recurly, and the card networks own offchain.