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1️⃣ Senate Republicans Unveil Revised 630-Page Clarity Act Ahead of First Procedural Vote Senate Republicans led by Sen. Cynthia Lummis released a revised 630-page version of the Clarity Act on September 10, setting up the bill's first procedural vote on September 15. The new draft adds rulemaking requirements for "non-DeFi trading protocols" that would have to register with the CFTC, narrows the DeFi provisions so they apply only to spot and cash digital commodity transactio

1️⃣ US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post Their Strongest Three-Week Run of 2026 with $3.8 Billion in Inflows US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $986.9 million in the week ending September 4, capping a three-week stretch of $3.8 billion in net inflows — the strongest run of 2026. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust led Friday's $174.6 million haul with $117.4 million, roughly 67% of the daily total, followed by Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund at $57.2 million. The funds now hold $101.3 bil

1️⃣ 21 Global Financial Institutions Form Joint Venture to Issue G7 Stablecoins On September 1 a consortium of 21 major financial institutions — including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Santander, MUFG and Fidelity Investments — announced plans to establish a company that will develop and issue stablecoins. The group has more than doubled from the initial ten banks that began exploring a 1:1 reserve-backed digital dollar in October 2025, and now spa

1️⃣ BlackRock Launches Two Tokenized Money Market Funds for Stablecoin Reserves On August 3 BlackRock expanded its tokenized cash lineup with two new products built for stablecoin issuers: BSTBL, a tokenized share class of its Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund issued on Ethereum, and BRSRV, a daily-reinvestment reserve vehicle available across multiple blockchains. Both are designed to qualify as eligible reserve assets under the GENIUS Act, positioning the world's largest

1️⃣ Ondo Finance Launches Ondo Network as Execution Layer for Tokenized Markets On July 28 Ondo Finance went live with Ondo Network, an off-chain execution layer that replaces its previously planned Ondo Chain layer-1. The network runs trading software inside Trusted Execution Environments to combine centralized-exchange speed with on-chain settlement, verifiability and self-custody, while keeping order flow private. It already powers Ondo Perps and is designed to expand into

1️⃣ Circle Wins Final OCC Approval to Open a National Trust Bank On July 10 Circle, the issuer of USDC, received final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a federally supervised national trust bank, to operate as Circle National Trust. The bank will provide fiduciary digital-asset custody for Circle and its affiliates and could later serve institutional clients, while opening a path for Circle to manage USDC reserves under OCC s

1️⃣ New York Life's $807B Asset Manager Debuts First Tokenized Fund With Centrifuge On June 30 New York Life Investment Management, the $807 billion asset management arm of insurer New York Life, launched its first tokenized fund — the NYLIM Anemoy U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Segregated Portfolio (ticker HYB) — bringing a high-yield corporate bond strategy onchain with tokenization platform Centrifuge. Subscriptions and redemptions settle in USDC, marking one of the earlie

1️⃣ Morgan Stanley Files for ETH and SOL ETFs With the Market's Lowest Fees On June 18 Morgan Stanley filed amendments with the SEC for its spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, setting a 0.14% sponsor fee — the lowest in both markets, undercutting Grayscale's 0.15% Mini Ether Trust and Franklin Templeton's 0.19% Solana fund. Both funds plan to stake a portion of their holdings to generate additional rewards, with Figment, Galaxy and Coinbase Canada serving as staking providers. [Th

1️⃣ JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi Unveil Shared Tokenized Deposit Network The three banking giants announced on June 5 a plan to build a shared tokenized deposit network through The Clearing House, targeting a launch in the first half of 2027. The initiative aims to bring 24/7 blockchain-based settlement of bank deposits, keeping customer funds inside the regulated banking system while matching the speed of stablecoins. [TheBlock] 2️⃣ BlackRock-Backed Securitize Clears S

1️⃣ CFTC Approves First U.S. Regulated Bitcoin Perpetual Futures The CFTC greenlit KalshiEX's BTCPERP contract on May 29, marking the first regulated bitcoin perpetual futures listing on a U.S. exchange and bringing a market segment historically dominated by offshore venues onshore under federal oversight. [CoinDeskCoinDesk] 2️⃣ Mastercard Granted NYDFS BitLicense for Stablecoin Settlement Mastercard's U.S. transaction services unit received a BitLicense from the New York Dep