INSIGHT: @Solana set a monthly transaction record in August at 5.2B, beating the old high by about 24%.
September is tracking higher.
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INSIGHT: ECB President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to block @Binance's MiCA license in Greece, citing concerns the exchange would deepen dollar stablecoin use in Europe and undermine the digital euro, per the WSJ.
INSIGHT: Kevin O'Leary says he's "back in the saddle buying new positions" for the next crypto cycle, calling the first major stock exchange to adopt a blockchain a "watershed moment" that will determine which chain wins institutional adoption.
INSIGHT: Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo says the Senate's failure to pass the CLARITY Act won't stop crypto regulation.
He told Eleanor Terrett that SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig are ready to build the frameworks Congress didn't.
INSIGHT: The White House releases analysis showing banning stablecoin rewards would raise bank lending by just 0.02% with 76% of any gain going to large banks, not the community banks the banking lobby claims to protect.
INSIGHT: White House crypto adviser @patrickjwitt says bank "deposit flight" fears over the CLARITY Act's stablecoin rewards are a myth, pointing out bank deposits are rising, not falling.
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
INSIGHT: @SenLummis on the CLARITY Act vote, "If it fails, Democrats own what comes next, consumers with zero federal protection, no disclosure rules, no delisting requirements for bad actors. They wrote the fix. They must pass it."
INSIGHT: Tom Lee says the next 12 months will be "really bullish" for crypto, arguing the leveraged excess cleared out last October and the four-year cycle bottoms next month.