
WSJ: ECB's Lagarde intervened to block Binance's MiCA license in Greece
The Wall Street Journal reports the ECB president pushed Greece to delay Binance's MiCA approval, citing dollar stablecoins and the digital euro.
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The Wall Street Journal reports the ECB president pushed Greece to delay Binance's MiCA approval, citing dollar stablecoins and the digital euro.

An unsealed brief in the New York Times-led copyright case quotes Microsoft and OpenAI insiders calling news scraping theft and their chatbots substitutive.

ARMA clears the House Financial Services Committee 28-21, sending the first federal Bitcoin reserve bill to the full chamber with a 20-year lockup.

SEC and CFTC will write crypto rules using existing authority after Senate blocked CLARITY Act 49-50. Agency rules lack the durability of legislation.

MiCA is live in Europe and has excluded USDT. The GENIUS Act is law but rules are missing. The two frameworks compared.

Senate Republicans published the final CLARITY Act text with 126 Democratic changes and a Trump-backed ethics deal, ahead of Tuesday's 60-vote cloture hurdle.

ESMA says top prediction-market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi lack EU authorisation, with event contracts potentially subject to MiFID II, MiCA or gambling rules.

By 2030 Milan's data centers could use 6 terawatt-hours a year, the electricity of more than two million households. Water and cumulative impacts still lack a plan.

Poland's parliament fell 25 votes short of overriding President Nawrocki's third crypto veto, leaving it the only EU state without MiCA rules.

The SEC approved a Nasdaq Texas rule change defining digital commodities and allowing crypto ETPs to hold up to 15% of NAV in non-qualifying digital assets.

FHFA Director Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to open VantageScore 4.0 to all US lenders, ending FICO's three-decade mortgage scoring monopoly.

Trump threatens to halt trade with surplus nations unless the Fed cuts rates, citing the Supreme Court ruling after August payrolls beat forecasts.

The OCC grants Revolut preliminary conditional approval for a US national bank charter headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. FDIC insurance and Fed membership still required.

Sberbank plans to accept Ethereum and USDT as loan collateral alongside Bitcoin as Russia's new digital currency law takes effect September 1.

Trump signs the executive order declaring a national emergency on the US power grid: risky foreign equipment banned and 120 days for implementing rules.

Draghi and Collison launch the Rhine Group, a think tank to turn the 170 proposals of the competitiveness report into concrete European reforms.

Revolut begins rolling out EURR, its first euro-pegged stablecoin, to select customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with wider EEA access planned later this year.

17% of Americans smoke marijuana, a record high (7% in 2013); cigarettes fall to 11%.

Bitcoin broke above $80,000 for the first time since May 2026, driven by $1.9B in weekly ETF inflows and over $4B in short liquidations.
CFTC Chair Selig told the Innovation Advisory Committee the agency will draft crypto market structure rules if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act.
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