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CFTC launches Future-Proof initiative to establish bespoke rules for digital assets and other emerging markets

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CFTC Chair Mike Selig announced Tuesday the launch of the “Future-Proof” initiative to modernize the agency’s regulatory approach to emerging markets, including digital assets and prediction markets. The program aims to replace outdated, enforcement-driven rules with tailored, purpose-fit regulations, providing clear, codified guidance for participants in digital assets, perpetual futures, and prediction markets. “Instead of fostering ingenuity with new rules, the Biden administration regulated by enforcement — subjecting novel products like digital assets and perpetual futures to legacy rules that could not fit the product, but could fit the prosecutor,”…

Digital Asset Treasuries That Just Hodl Get It Wrong

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Opinion by: Mike Maloney, Chairman of 21 Vault, a company operating in digital asset infrastructure and treasury strategy ​Digital asset treasuries (DATs) started back in 2020 with Strategy’s decision to buy and hold Bitcoin (BTC). ​That fateful decision has created a treasury with a market capitalization exceeding $80 billion. ​A flurry of companies began to replicate this buy-and-hold approach. These new DATs raise huge amounts of capital to buy their chosen asset before merging with publicly traded companies, giving investors exposure to crypto via their stocks. Summer turned to winter.…

Digital asset funds record nearly $2.2B inflows in strongest week since October

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Key Takeaways Digital asset investment products saw almost $2.2 billion in inflows, marking the strongest week since October 2025. Bitcoin led with over $1.5 billion in inflows; Ethereum and Solana attracted $496 million and $45 million, respectively. Share this article Investors poured approximately $2.2 billion into digital asset products last week, marking a peak in weekly inflows not seen since October 2025, according to CoinShares. By assets, Bitcoin dominated with over $1.5 billion in new capital. Ethereum trailed with nearly half a billion dollars, while XRP rounded out the top…

Stablecoin Yield Prohibition Gives Digital Yuan Leg Up Over USD: Scaramucci

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The expanded prohibition on stablecoin yield in the CLARITY Act makes the US dollar less competitive than the Digital Yuan, Scaramucci said. The prohibition on yield-bearing stablecoins in the CLARITY Act puts the US dollar at a competitive disadvantage to China’s Digital Yuan, a yield-bearing central bank digital currency, according to Anthony Scaramucci, founder of asset manager SkyBridge Capital. “The whole system is broken,” Scaramucci said in response to the prohibition on crypto exchanges and service providers offering customers yield on stablecoins in the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure…

Crypto Bank Anchorage Digital Eyeing $400M Raise and IPO

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Institutional crypto platform Anchorage Digital is looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh capital as it eyes a potential Initial Public Offering. The raise would be in the $200 million to $400 million range, while a possible IPO is slated for sometime next year, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous. Anchorage’s affiliate, Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, became the first federally chartered crypto bank in 2021 and is now well-positioned to lead stablecoin issuance and…

Anchorage Digital looks to raise up to $400M ahead of potential 2027 IPO

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Key Takeaways Anchorage Digital is eyeing a $200M–$400M capital raise. The firm is America’s first federally chartered crypto bank. Share this article Anchorage Digital is looking to raise as much as $400 million as it weighs tapping into the US public market next year, Bloomberg reported Friday. Anchorage, the first crypto firm to obtain a federal banking charter in the US, is among the crypto companies analysts view as the next candidates for listing after Circle, Gemini, and Bullish, all of which went public last year. Talks about the expected…

Galaxy Digital Closes $75 Million Tokenized CLO on Avalanche

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Galaxy Digital has closed its first tokenized collateralized loan obligation (CLO), bringing private credit onto blockchain infrastructure. The deal, known as Galaxy CLO 2025-1, was issued on Avalanche and has financed roughly $75 million in loans so far, according to a Thursday announcement. The transaction is anchored by a $50 million allocation from Grove, an institutional credit protocol within the Sky ecosystem, formerly known as MakerDAO. “By uniting our strengths in debt capital markets, blockchain technology, and asset management, we’re opening a new avenue for institutional engagement in credit markets—one…

London Stock Exchange unveils blockchain-powered platform for cash and digital assets

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Key Takeaways LSEG launched a blockchain-powered settlement platform named Digital Settlement House (DiSH). The service aims to minimize settlement risk, improve liquidity management, and enable round-the-clock asset and margin management. Share this article London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has rolled out a blockchain-based settlement platform that lets financial institutions move real commercial bank money and settle assets instantly, 24/7, across both traditional and digital asset networks. The service, the Digital Settlement House (LSEG DiSH), enables near-instant payment-versus-payment (PvP) and delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement using commercial bank deposits. These deposits are recorded…

Perp DEXs Will Eat TradFi 2026: Delphi Digital

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Perpetual decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are gaining traction as traders turn to blockchain-based platforms that promise lower costs and fewer intermediaries than traditional centralized venues. Perp DEXs are blockchain-based venues for trading perpetual futures contracts, allowing traders to bet on the underlying asset’s price with leverage and without an expiry date. Crypto research firm Delphi Digital said in its outlook for 2026 that perp DEXs are poised to continue taking market share from traditional finance products. It argued that decentralized infrastructure is structurally more efficient than legacy systems, which it described…

UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Plans as Crypto Privacy Tech Gains Ground

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The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has dropped plans to make a centralized digital ID mandatory for workers, softening a flagship policy that would have required every employee to prove their right to work via a government‑issued credential rather than traditional documents like passports.  The move follows months of backlash from critics, including UK Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage and other cross‑party politicians, civil liberties groups and campaigners.  Opponents warned it risked building an “Orwellian nightmare,” centralizing sensitive data in a honeypot vulnerable…