Binance US is seeking up to $100 million at about a $1 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against $4.5 billion pre-money in 2022. None of the three accounts says whether the $1 billion is pre- or post-money, so the markdown is approximate.
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Two DWF Labs-linked firms are suing BitGo for $141 million, alleging it sold tokens it had bought before their agreed lock-ups ended. The claim treats BitGo as a buyer of discounted tokens, so the exposure sits with sellers who relied on its promise to wait.
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Kalshi and its investor Paradigm sat with Coinbase, Ripple and Chainlink at the White House, one day before the CFTC's new advisory committee met. The seating chart is the substance.
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Democrats' document demands map the Trump family deals a new majority would investigate first
House Democrats are demanding records on Kushner's Affinity Partners and on the Justice Department's settlement of Trump's $10bn lawsuit against the IRS. For companies tied to the Trump family, the letters preview what a Democratic majority would try to compel.
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A bill that began as a security-or-commodity question now includes a standby power over stablecoin rewards if community banks start losing deposits. The Treasury secretary decides when it fires.
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Community bankers sued the OCC, arguing it lacks National Bank Act authority for trust charters approved for 21 firms, at least 13 of them crypto companies. The charters matter most to stablecoin issuers seeking room above the $10 billion cap on state-qualified issuers.
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Michael Selig filed an early-stage crypto rulemaking with the White House budget office two days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, and the filing's own schedule puts a binding rule in late 2027.
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Fight Fight Fight LLC will seat the top 185 time-weighted holders of $TRUMP, a token about 97% below its peak, at a November 22 dinner with Donald Trump. Earlier rounds drew leaderboard buying that unwound once invitations went out, so the November 12 snapshot will test how much of the token's bid is for the seat.
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Clarity Act's Senate defeat leaves crypto firms planning on agency rules that elections can undo
Senators killed crypto's Clarity Act on September 15 when a procedural vote fell short of the 60 votes it needed. Any product that rests only on current agency posture now needs a costed fallback in next year's compliance budget.
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World Liberty Trust Company won preliminary conditional approval for a national trust charter. Its business plan takes the issuing and custody role for USD1 away from BitGo.
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Justin Sun says he won a California hearing; World Liberty Financial says nothing was decided. The public docket settles neither, and the freeze power is what matters.
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The watchdog's tally lands while Trump lobbies the Senate for a fair version of the market structure bill, and the two sides of its ledger settle differently: about $1.44bn of fees in cash, $4.7bn of losses still a mark.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the securities-versus-commodities test where it already was, with the SEC and CFTC free to keep writing rules under existing powers and those rules open to court challenge.
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A $6bn fusion merger dwarfs the $620m of Pentagon AI loans in the Trump family's portfolio
Crypto Briefing totals the family's AI positions at $620 million of Pentagon loans, a $6 billion Trump Media merger with fusion developer TAE, and 38% of a token issuer that has booked $1.4 billion in revenue. A counterparty would need to know which entity holds what.
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The CLARITY Act stalled eleven votes short of a Senate floor debate
A 49-50 cloture vote left the crypto market-structure bill short of the 60 needed to open debate, so the SEC/CFTC jurisdictional split it would have created stays unwritten. Roadmaps dated against it now wait on a motion that failed its first vote.
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Democrats price the CLARITY Act's missing seven votes at a divestment trigger
The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
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Crypto's federal rulebook stalls 11 votes short of the Senate's 60-vote bar
The Senate voted 50-49 against the Clarity Act on September 15, so the federal digital-asset framework stays unwritten. The fight that sank it was over ethics language tied to the president's own crypto holdings.
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Winning four of six toss-up Senate seats would hand Democrats the regulator confirmation queue
Cook rates 21 Republican-held House seats as toss-ups against five Democratic ones. In the Senate, Democrats need four net gains out of six toss-ups. Only that chamber decides whether financial regulators get confirmed.
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The Wall Street Journal puts StringZ Holding at 49% of WLTC Holdings and a Trump family entity at 38%, which leaves 13% for everyone else, with the OCC's signed non-control letters standing as the documented limit on that influence.
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USD1 leaves BitGo for the OCC, and the Senate's CLARITY arithmetic gets harder
The Comptroller's conditional approval for World Liberty Trust is dated August 14, and its conditions are unpublished. Rivals get a template; senators debating conflicts get a fact on the ground.
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