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Rep. Warren Davidson said America’s debt, inflation and declining dollar purchasing power make sound money and real assets central to the country’s economic future. The Bitcoin Magazine interview also covered crypto legislation, self-custody, CBDCs, stablecoins, bitcoin’s political role and U.S. government holdings.
ARK Invest is standing by its five-year Bitcoin outlook despite a flat-to-down year. Lorenzo Valente discussed the firm’s 2030 thesis, Bitcoin as digital gold and permissionless money, stablecoins, tokenization and the factors keeping some institutions cautious.
Bitmine bought 12,532 ETH worth about $31.9 million, lifting its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, or 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply. Chairman Tom Lee said the company needs roughly 100,000 more ETH to reach its 5% target, while predicting a major crypto bull market.
Bitcoin dropped below $83,000 during Monday’s U.S. session as a strong dollar, higher bond yields and falling technology shares pressured risk assets. Ether, crypto stocks and bitcoin miners also declined, while Bitmine and Strategy continued adding to their digital-asset holdings.
Payward, Kraken’s parent company, has secured a virtual-asset service provider license from Dubai’s VARA. The approval enables its UAE entity to prepare spot and margin trading in dirham-denominated pairs, plus direct deposits and withdrawals, with launch planned in the coming weeks.
The U.S. Supreme Court has not decided whether to hear a case over sports prediction markets, as states, tribal nations, the NFL and former regulators challenge CFTC authority. A circuit split and new agency rules have intensified the dispute over whether these contracts are swaps or gambling products.
The IMF says tokenized stocks show genuine retail demand, with most trading outside U.S. market hours and many trades involving fractions of shares. But the market is about $2.3 billion, more volatile and less liquid than traditional equities, prompting calls for stronger oversight.
The U.S. Clarity Act’s Senate setback leaves the SEC and CFTC to advance crypto-market rules. Executives see openings for tokenization, DeFi and dealmaking, while lawyers warn that agency action cannot replace Congress or resolve oversight of spot-market trading.
The IMF says tokenized stocks are attracting after-hours and fractional trading, but remain about 1.5 times as volatile and significantly less liquid than conventional shares. The report calls for stronger legal, settlement and interoperability safeguards as platforms expand their offerings.
An AI security agent found an XRP Ledger vulnerability that could have created about 18 trillion XRP in one transaction. Developers issued an emergency fix outside the normal governance process, while RippleX said no unauthorized tokens were created and no public-network exploitation was found.
Ledger confirmed that one device linked to reported crypto losses through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis contained an unauthorized hardware implant. Potential losses may exceed $86 million, while the company investigates and advises affected users to pause setup or move assets.
Ledger confirmed that one device linked to reported cryptocurrency losses contained an unauthorized hardware implant. The company said the incident appeared limited to a Southeast Asian reseller, while estimated losses across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron may exceed $86 million.
The CFTC has proposed defining event contracts tied to sports, politics and other outcomes as federally regulated swaps, while excluding casino gambling. The measures could intensify a legal fight between prediction-market operators and states over regulatory jurisdiction.
Coinbase’s replay of 16,140 Onramp transactions found that newer versions of Opus, Sonnet and GPT models detected less fraud under the same decision policy. A separate custom model test showed stronger results, highlighting the need to evaluate complete screening configurations.
The CFTC issued measures to classify event contracts tied to sports, politics and other outcomes as swaps, while excluding sportsbooks and casino games. The move intensifies a jurisdictional fight with states and comes as courts, including the Supreme Court, weigh prediction-market disputes.
Tokenized commodities are expanding beyond gold-price exposure as Paxos Labs explores gold lending, Theo develops income-generating silver products and Energy Substantiation builds oil, natural gas and Brent tokens. The sector is growing, but custody, logistics, inventory verification and borrower risk remain major challenges.
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Bitcoin’s average volatility has fallen sharply in 2026, but CoinDesk counted 10 three-sigma trading days—more than during 2018’s bear market. The pattern highlights persistent tail risk as institutional liquidity and derivatives positioning reshape the cryptocurrency market.
