Pakistan Floats a National Bitcoin Mining Strategy
Islamabad announced a coordinated effort to attract industrial-scale mining operators, citing surplus generation capacity and a regional push for hard-currency revenue.
Wei Lin//Aug 4, 2025//5m
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GENIUS Act Signed Into Law, Establishing Stablecoin Federal Framework
President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, creating the first U.S. federal regulatory regime for payment stablecoins after a 308-122 House passage.
Marcus Webb//Jul 18, 2025//6m
Senate Agriculture Advances Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act
The Senate Agriculture Committee narrowly advanced its version of the CLARITY Act framework, while Senate Banking has yet to complete its markup.
Marcus Webb//Jan 29, 2026//5m
CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate Banking Committee
Repeatedly cancelled markup sessions and a narrow Senate calendar have raised real doubts about whether comprehensive crypto market structure legislation can pass before the 2026 midterms.
Marcus Webb//Mar 18, 2026//5m
Trump Crypto Executive Order Establishes Strategic Working Group
The early-2025 executive order created an inter-agency working group on digital asset policy and explicitly disavowed any U.S. CBDC.
Marcus Webb//Jan 23, 2025//5m
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Plan Inches Forward
Treasury formally established a working group to study a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, with seized-asset BTC as the proposed initial source.
Marcus Webb//Feb 13, 2025//5m
UK Stablecoin Bill Passes, Creating Clearest Major-Economy Framework
Parliament has approved a tightly-scoped bill governing fiat-backed stablecoins, finally giving issuers a clear path to operate from London.
Helena Cross//Apr 23, 2025//5m
South Korea Spot Bitcoin ETF Path Clears
Seoul's Financial Services Commission signaled it will permit spot Bitcoin ETFs, ending years of restrictive policy and unlocking a major Asian retail market.
Sofia Marchetti//Nov 4, 2025//5m
White House CEA Reports on Passive Yield Stablecoin Costs
The Council of Economic Advisers found that a full ban on passive stablecoin yield would cost consumers roughly $800 million annually in lost returns.
Marcus Webb//Feb 9, 2026//5m
The Memecoin Economy Is Just Gambling, and It Should Be Regulated as Such
Pretending that anonymously-launched joke tokens are software products is a regulatory fiction that has cost retail traders billions.
Alejandro Ruiz//Apr 9, 2025//6m
Stablecoin 'Yields' Are Not Yields. They Are Net Interest Margin.
The terminology has been doing a lot of work that shouldn't be left unexamined. What looks like passive income is often just deposit margin paid back to depositors.
Olivia Chen//Mar 18, 2026//5m
The Case Against a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Even crypto-friendly observers should be skeptical of putting a volatile speculative asset on the federal balance sheet, regardless of which side benefits politically.
James Thornton//Apr 4, 2025//6m
The CLARITY Act Won't Save Crypto From Itself
Even if the bill passes, it addresses only one specific source of regulatory dysfunction. The industry's other self-inflicted problems will not solve themselves.
Marcus Webb//Apr 19, 2026//6m