JUST IN: Japan's parliament has advanced a bill that would reclassify crypto as a financial product, cutting the maximum tax rate from 55% to a flat 20% and introducing insider trading rules for the first time.
🇺🇸 UPDATE: Wednesday's Clarity Act meeting brought together White House officials, lawmakers, and law enforcement groups.
Discussions focused on the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act and crypto crime enforcement tools, per Eleanor Terrett.
Ripple and @Bitso are expanding their long-standing payments partnership.
Bitso’s regulated MXN-backed stablecoin, MXNB, will be issued on XRPL and integrated into Ripple’s Payments on DEX infrastructure, supporting enterprise stablecoin settlement across Latin America.
Together, RLUSD and MXNB bring regulated USD and MXN liquidity to XRPL's Permissioned DEX, helping enable real-world enterprise payment flows.
Read more on the partnership expansion: on.ripple.com/4uuU2s6
When markets run on open rails, more people can see the rules before they trade.
Trueo is built on Ethereum.
@Trueo_ brings prediction markets fully onchain, which makes rules, liquidity, and execution easier to inspect.
Arbitrum has been named to the inaugural @FortuneMagazine Crypto 100.
Together with our ecosystem, we're building the finance-native platform powering the programmable economy for builders, enterprises and institutions.
Thank you to everyone building alongside us.
🇨🇦 JUST IN: Robinhood officially enters Canada after closing its acquisition of WonderFi, a leading regulated digital asset platform operator in the country.
No matter who won the Congressional Baseball Game, we're on Team Clarity. ⚾
Whether it's baseball or digital assets, the rules matter.
Clear rules of the road support responsible innovation and U.S. leadership.
EXCLUSIVE: @OndoFinance hires the former chief of Invesco's ETF business as the firm expands into tokenized investment products.
@sndr_krisztian reports.
JUST IN: $14 trillion BlackRock files 8-A form for its Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, which "typically means launch in one week", according to Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas 👀
JUST IN: @Visa says it has moved $7B annually in stablecoins through its network, announcing stablecoin settlement expansion, tokenized deposits, and a partnership with @OpenAI to enable AI agent payments.
The agentic economy needs instant, near-free settlement.
AI agents will need millions of microtransactions per day; legacy rails can’t keep up.
Sui can.