INTEL: Iran’s top security official says Qatar has relayed Tehran’s conditions for ending the war to Washington, and Tehran is now awaiting Trump’s response
Talks through Qatar and Pakistan are continuing
INTEL: Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding bankrolled by Russian oligarch tied to Putin. Trump says his son told him he will repay a Russian who contributed to his wedding.
INTEL: Grayscale will split its Zcash ETF 3-for-1 after ZCSH pulled in $233 million and grew to nearly $890 million in assets less than a month after launch
INTEL: The CFTC has sent a new crypto market rulemaking to White House review titled “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets”
INTEL: North Korea-linked hackers infected 30,000+ devices across 100+ countries, compromised data from 7,000+ crypto wallets and received at least $10.7 million into wallets they controlled, Japanese and U.S. authorities say
INTEL: Kevin O’Leary says he is buying crypto again and sees a major stock exchange moving onchain as the industry’s “watershed moment”
He says the next trillion-dollar opportunity will come from real corporate blockchain adoption across the S&P 500
INTEL: Binance’s CZ says banks don’t need protection from blockchain and can use the technology themselves
He says blockchain is faster, cheaper and easier to verify for transferring value
INTEL: CFTC allows developers to build passive crypto derivatives software and self-custodial trading interfaces without registering as brokers
The exemption applies when developers do not control funds, direct orders or provide trading recommendations
INTEL: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says classified Bitcoin and crypto efforts are underway inside the Pentagon after agreeing the U.S. should seek a strategic advantage in bitcoin:native
INTEL: Seven Senate Democrats who voted against advancing the CLARITY Act say they remain committed to passing the bill on a bipartisan basis
“This week was a setback, but not the end of that important work”