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While Circle (CRCL) Shares Jump 15% In Pre-Market As Earnings Beat Estimates CoinDesk
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…the biggest story of the day was how in Westminster, MPs Demand Temporary Ban On Crypto Donations To UK Parties (BBC) / Ministers Urged To Impose Temporary Ban On Crypto Political Donations (The Guardian). This of course has everything to do with transparency and nothing, no no, nothing whatsoever to do with a perceived crypto advantage in the Reform party which is reshaping British politics and could feasibly go from a handful of MPs to government at the next general election.
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In essence 99% of AI users are on the free tier, with 1% paying whereas crypto has no ‘free’ tier, hence this story: Crypto Isn’t Losing To AI, Its Just ‘Capitalism Doing Its Job,’ Says Dragonfly (CoinDesk).
A key regulatory point as ESMA Reminds Firms Of Their Obligations Under CFD Product Intervention Measures Amid Rising Offerings Of Perpetual Futures (ESMA). In the US perpetual futures are making progress but their embedded funding costs et al leave them susceptible to the ESMA CFD rules.
As EDX Markets Prepares For Acceleration Of Institutions Into Crypto (Markets Media), I am still not entirely convinced the wave is there. Also revisiting a theme of recent weeks, Crypto Wallets For AI Agents Are Creating A New Legal Frontier, Says Electric Capital (CoinDesk). See also MoonPay launches ‘MoonPay Agents’ to power AI-Driven Crypto Transactions (The Block).
From Moscow, Russia Proposes Broker-Led Framework for Retail Crypto Trading (Finance Magnates) while Putin Lets Courts Confiscate Bitcoin As Russia Cracks Down On Freewheeling Crypto Sector (DL News).
Anybody fleeing Russia with their wallet with a head for heights might like to consider Thimphu as Bhutan Launches Crypto Visa For Digital Nomads (UA News).
An interesting banking aside with broader consequences as Fed Proposes Rule To Deal With Crypto Debanking By Scrapping ‘Reputation Risk’ (CoinDesk)
The self-proclaimed ‘everything exchange’ Coinbase Opens Stock Trading to Everyone In The US, Partners With Yahoo Finance To Power Discovery (Coinbase) as South Korea Moves To Require Crypto, Stock Influencers To Disclose Holdings: Report (Cointelegraph).
Finally, further to the denials from the firm of 4:FUD! In recent days, US Senator Launches Probe Into Binance Over Iran, Russia Sanctions Claims (Cointelegraph).
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