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SoftBank is going to invest a massive amount of money to construct data centers in France.

Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller told a conference on Sunday that stablecoins expand the reach of US policy while the Bank of England’s Megan Greene expects their popularity will soon fade. US Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Sunday that the growing use of dollar-backed stablecoins could bolster the global influence of US monetary policy. Waller told participants at the 32nd Dubrovnik Economics Conference that countries that increasingly rely on stablecoins backed by the US dollar may effectively import US monetary conditions, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. “I've always just looked at ​stablecoins as a payment instrument; there's nothing evil about it, nothing dangerous about it,” Waller said. “They ​are just bringing competition into the payments world,” Reuters reported. Read more

Strategy could be set to announce it has resumed buying Bitcoin after pausing in recent weeks as the biggest crypto looks poised to close out the month down more than 3.5%. Strategy chairman Michael Saylor on Sunday signaled the Bitcoin treasury company would be announcing fresh purchases of the cryptocurrency in the coming days. The social media post comes just days ahead of a proxy vote that depends in large part on retailer shareholders to enable semi-monthly dividend payouts on the company’s STRC perpetual preferred stock. “Working Better” was Saylor's tweet late Sunday morning to accompany a bubble chart tracking Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) purchases over the past nearly six years. That chart, from Iceland-registered StrategyTracker.com, has been consistently posted by Saylor in the days ahead of news of a purchase by the biggest publicly traded Bitcoin holder. Read more

NYDIG, meanwhile, rejected the basis-trade theory, citing the large discount and the lack of an unusual spike in corresponding CME bitcoin futures volume.

Western governments spent three years building what they believed was an airtight financial blockade around Russia, severing its banks from SWIFT, freezing sovereign reserves, and barring major institutions from clearing dollar transactions. And according to British authorities, Russia may have spent much of that same period engineering an alternative financial system designed to circumvent it […] The post UK treats crypto network like a sanctioned bank after claims it processed $90B for Russia appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Rep. French Hill, head of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on outstanding policy issues in an interview with CoinDesk last month.

In the wake of CFTC approval of perpetual futures contracts tied to the spot price of Bitcoin, Kraken expects to offer those to US institutional clients within "the next month." Kraken said late Friday that it expects to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures contracts in the US in the next 30 days, hours after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the instruments. The exchange said when it gains approval, the contracts will be listed on Bitnomial Exchange, a CFTC-regulated exchange recently acquired by Kraken's parent company, Payward. Payward said on April 17 that it was acquiring crypto derivatives platform Bitnomial for as much as $550 million, aimed at providing Kraken Pro customers with access to Bitnomial's perpetual futures offering. Read more

A sweeping new executive order from President Donald Trump reshapes how millions of unbanked immigrants may interact with crypto. The post Trump Crypto Vision: Immigration Order and Stablecoin Economy Set Stage for Bitcoin appeared first on Cryptonews.

Less than four years after the collapse of FTX triggered calls for a sweeping crackdown, the crypto industry has emerged as one of the fastest-growing forces in American politics. It is spending millions across both parties, reshaping key elections, and transforming itself from a regulatory target into a powerful new political machine. In 2022, Washington's […] The post Revealing the moment crypto started reshaping American elections appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Wall Street's clearing giant chose a public blockchain with compliance tools built for regulated assets, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon said.

Bitcoin faced ending May lower by around 3%, with the possibility of US PMI data giving BTC price action a boost next week. Bitcoin (BTC) circled $73,500 on Sunday as bulls stared down 3% BTC price losses for May. Key points: Read more

When the Trump family faced pressure from banks, it embraced crypto. Now, immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally face a similar choice.

On the American Gaming Association's website, a counter has been climbing for months, tallying what the casino-and-sportsbook lobby says states and tribes have lost to prediction markets. On Thursday, it rolled past $1 billion, and the AGA moved fast to make a headline out of it, with President Bill Miller going on CNBC to warn […] The post How a disputed $1 billion claim became a powerful weapon against prediction markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The brokerage giant says the future of investing won’t be defined by asset access alone but by the quality of tools investors get.

XRP had a rather difficult start to 2026 from a price standpoint, but the underlying XRP Ledger showed notable signs of growth, according to the latest State of XRP report by Messari. The analytics firm outlines a sharp contrast between the weaker market performance and strong network fundamentals, with stablecoin adoption, real-world asset tokenization, and […]

Headline PCE inflation has been confirmed to have risen 3.8% in April year-on-year, its hottest pace in two years and nearly double the Federal Reserve's 2% goal, while core PCE held at 3.3%, its highest reading since October 2023. The monthly numbers ran cooler, with core easing to 0.2% against the 0.3% economists had expected. […] The post New US inflation report leaves Bitcoin with a problem the Fed cannot solve yet appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The creator of the Mayer Multiple argues bitcoin’s growing economic substance is compressing volatility and attracting deeper capital.

Bitcoin’s bounce from a key holder cost-basis level has improved the case for further upside, with historical data pointing to $101,000 as a potential best-case target. Bitcoin (BTC) is rebounding from a key on-chain support zone, putting the $78,000 level back in focus for bulls. Key takeaways: Bitcoin rebounded roughly 2.5% over the weekend to reach $74,000 on Sunday, with the recovery beginning near $72,500. Read more

Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Predicts Bitcoin Price By End of June 2026 The post Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Predicts Bitcoin Price By End of June 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

reasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum that the US had seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, turning the Iran crypto seizure into an early test of Trump’s reserve framework Bessent added the authorities “just outright grabbed the wallets,” with CBS reporting he also described the assets as money […] The post The US says it grabbed Iran’s crypto in a $1B seizure – will it end up in Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve? appeared first on CryptoSlate.