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The Treasury's report to the US Congress was commissioned as part of directives under the GENIUS stablecoin regulatory framework. The United States Treasury Department acknowledged the legitimate use of mixers, which obfuscate crypto transfers to preserve user privacy, in its report to Congress on “Innovative Technologies to Counter Illicit Finance Involving Digital Assets.”  “As consumers increase their use of digital assets for payments, individuals may want to use mixers to maintain more privacy in their consumer spending habits,” the report said. The Treasury report continued: However, the report also noted the dangers of “darknet” or non-custodial, decentralized mixers. The Treasury said that non-custodial mixers are used for money laundering or shifting illicit funds by cybercriminals, including North Korea-linked hackers. Read more

A large volume of US commercial real estate (CRE) debt is rolling into a very different market from the one that produced it. The Mortgage Bankers Association says $875 billion of commercial and multifamily mortgages are scheduled to mature in 2026, equal to 17% of the roughly $5 trillion of outstanding balances it tracks. While […] The post $875B in property debt is due soon — and regional banks may be the weak link Bitcoin is watching appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The victim offered a 10% bounty for any recovered funds and asked exchanges and investigators to help trace the transfers.

The IRS’s 1099-DA tax form for reporting digital asset gains comes with a burden of over-reporting, Coinbase's tax experts warned.

This places blockchain security in the context of national technology competition alongside AI and quantum computing.

Headlines about Bitcoin ETF outflows often mix two things: Bitcoin's price move and actual share redemptions. If BTC drops, ETF AUM drops in dollars even if nobody sells a single share. That mark-to-market drop gets read as money leaving, and it can look like an institutional exit when the wrapper's Bitcoin holdings and shares outstanding […] The post $19B could “vanish” from Bitcoin ETFs without a single Bitcoin being sold appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Traders are moving beyond sports bets and elections to price "unpriceable" geopolitical and policy risks that standard financial tools can’t handle.

The plaintiffs characterized the death carveout in a prediction market for the former Iranian Supreme Leader's ouster as "deceptive." A class action lawsuit has been filed against prediction market Kalshi, alleging that the death carveout in the “Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader” market was not properly disclosed to users and that the platform failed to pay out winning trades. The plaintiffs said that the death carveout policy was “not incorporated into the user-facing rules summary,” and was not displayed in a way that would notify a “reasonable consumer” of the policy or its effects. “Defendants, themselves, later acknowledged that their prior disclosures were ‘grammatically ambiguous,’” the lawsuit filing said. Read more

With a “box of goodies” and a team of four, the firm is trying to replace payment incumbents with an Ethereum layer-2

Bitcoin remains trapped in a broader corrective structure, but the price action is starting to stabilize after defending the $60,000 demand region. The daily chart still leans cautiously as BTC trades below the major moving averages and beneath the descending resistance trendline. That leaves the cryptocurrency at an important crossroads, where a push higher could […]

Brazil and Argentina are leading the growth, with Brazil dominating by transaction size and Argentina seeing increasing adoption driven by cross-border payments and stablecoin use.

The shift comes as stablecoins surge in popularity and competitors like Stripe and PayPal add stablecoin options, increasing market pressure.

"The court has unambiguously rejected the false and damaging narrative that Binance assisted terrorists," commented the exchange's General Counsel.

XRP continues to trade under pressure on both its USDT and BTC pairs, with the broader structure still favoring sellers despite some short-term stabilization near key support levels. The charts suggest that buyers are trying to defend important demand zones, but the token still needs a convincing breakout above major moving averages and overhead resistance […]

BlackRock’s Rick Rieder, UBS’s Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi and Third Point’s Daniel Loeb see steady economic growth but a tougher market environment.

When crude starts leading the headlines, crypto people tend to ask the wrong questions, like what it is that oil actually does to Bitcoin. While it's the simplest and easiest way to explain what you don't know, it's a pretty bad question. A better one is what oil actually does to the cost of money, […] The post Forget CPI and ETFs — oil prices may now be the biggest signal for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Kalshi, approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was last valued at $11 billion, while Polymarket was valued at $9 billion.

The project released a case study showing that the vast number of nodes can support decentralized AI training and computing usng spare processing power.

Strategy may raise $300 million via STRC sales, potentially giving Michael Saylor enough proceeds to continue buying Bitcoin throughout 2026. Michael Saylor’s Strategy may purchase more Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming weeks through the proceeds from its STRC stock sales. Key takeaways: Strategy’s STRC preferred stock has become a yield-based funding tool for its Bitcoin purchases. Read more

The stablecoin issuer used its Mint platform for intercompany transfers, replacing bank wires that often take days to settle, CEO Jeremy Allaire said.