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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Though the bill failed to advance, EC and CFTC rules "could achieve much of what the legislation sought to." However, agency rules are open to interpretation by a future administration #finreg www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Failure of Clarity Act Turns Crypto Industry Focus to Federal Regulators
EXCLUSIVE: The act’s failure to progress leaves regulation of the cryptocurrency industry in the hands of government agencies and vulnerable to interpretation as administrations change, analysts said.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
THIS IS NOT THE 90S part X--the internet boom was capital light, national savings rose w/ profits, the federal budget moved to surplus. The AI boom is wildly capital/debt intensive, national savings has dwindled so it is *very* dependent on global capital--holding onto monetary credibility is key...
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
may now limit betting on player injuries, war, terrorism and assassinations
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The CFTC considers bets placed on prediction platforms as a forms of "swaps" trading. Under previous administrations, the agency "blocked ...platforms from listing broad categories of these event contracts." www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
wsj.com
Trump Regulator Proposes New Rules on What’s Allowed on Prediction Markets
The CFTC provided clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won’t ban certain contracts.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The funds moving through Binance to Iran-linked groups largely corresponded to payments from Chinese buyers of Iranian oil, part of a sanctions-busting trade that is controlled by the IRGC" Info from foreign law enforcement agencies #finreg #geopolitics w/gift link www.wsj.com/world/middle...
wsj.com
Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime—Continuing Into This Month
The crypto transactions took place despite repeated red flags. Binance says it has “zero-tolerance for illicit activity.”
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
de Cos, Bank for International Settlements “Stablecoins attempt to import credibility from public money while operating outside the established settlement system” #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
Stablecoins Are Private Money. That’s Why They’re a Risk to the Economy.
Financial innovations often lead to upheaval and instability. Despite new regulations, those risks persist with stablecoins.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
a selling point: "reshoring" crypto development from Abu Dhabi and Singapore #finreg www.wsj.com/opinion/digi...
wsj.com
Opinion | Digital Asset Rules Need Clarity
U.S. financial regulation sets the standard for the world. Congress needs to act to keep it that way.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Access to Fedwire "a critical interbank payment system that handles more than $4 trillion in average daily fund transfers" + Wyoming offers a special type of state bank charter "geared toward crypto companies" www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
wsj.com
Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System
The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
July '25 version of Clarity - banks "warned senators that some $6.6 trillion in deposits could be at risk of being siphoned out of the traditional financial system" #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
The Crypto CEO Who’s Become Enemy No. 1 on Wall Street
Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"To banks, rewards on stablecoins from companies... that pay out 3.5% resemble high-yielding deposits—but without the regulations they face for holding customers’ cash" www.wsj.com/finance/regu... #finreg
wsj.com
Banks Cry Foul Over High-Yielding Tokens as Crypto Fight Simmers in Washington
The fight is one factor delaying the Senate Banking Committee effort to advance a bill defining crypto market rules.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Clarity Act "If signed into law, the legislation will lead to the near-total deregulation of crypto, gutting almost all financial regulations and monitoring mechanisms that could place limits on the system." #finreg www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
bostonreview.net
The Crypto Chokehold
Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“staff members … can make a judgment call on whether to accept them, assuming that all security features — a mountain-shaped foil hologram, some imprinted micro text, and the word “interagency” across the front of the pass in invisible ink — are all still visible” www.sfgate.com/national-par...
sfgate.com
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In public, "buy, buy" - in private e-mails, "a pig," "a POS" The relationship between analysts and investment banks changed in 2003, when the SEC "required banks to separate their research and banking operations under... the Global Research Analyst Settlement." #finreg www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
wsj.com
Opinion | The SEC May Make Wall Street Analysts Corrupt Again
Regulators end a settlement that stopped investment bankers from influencing researchers.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“The ICO craze reached a peak in 2017 and 2018. Startups with no more than a white paper and no established product managed to draw in billions of dollars in ICO fundraising” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings
Blockchain startup Monad will be the first project to sell its token on the new platform.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
An interview with a light touch, considering what’s been reported recently www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"In all these times, the shape of the newly emerging regime could be seen only in retrospect" #neoliberalism www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
In the beforetimes... "Crypto startups and exchanges complain that compliance with existing SEC rules is technically infeasible because digital assets are issued and traded differently than stocks and bonds" #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
SEC Ousts Top Litigator Who Battled With Crypto Giants
The agency, seeking to make peace with the crypto market, reassigned its head of litigation to a job in its information-technology office.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“The pardon could also clear the way for Binance to return to the US market, which it was forced to exit as a condition of the DOJ settlement” #finreg #crypto www.wired.com/story/trump-...
wired.com
‘War on Crypto Is Over’: Donald Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ
After serving a federal prison sentence for violating anti-money laundering laws and US sanctions, former crypto exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned by US President Donald Trump.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"the equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I." #AI #tariff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“When Mr. Vought returned to the White House this year, he argued that disclosing the budget records would reveal sensitive information” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
nytimes.com
In Budget Logs It Tried to Hide, White House Wrests More Control Over Spending
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Employees at Binance created PancakeSwap "Traders, mostly writing in Chinese, gather in groups on the Telegram messaging app to talk about competing for rewards paid out to top users of USD1 and advertised by PancakeSwap" #finreg #geopolitics www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
The Recipe Behind the Trump Family’s Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap
The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon from President Trump.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Re: T administration taking a 15% cut of Nvidia’s chip revenue in China, David Faber on @squawkstreet.bsky.social: why not 50%? :) A discussion of the following article has framed the issue #geopolitics #AI #capitalism www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
wsj.com
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just a lonely #LLM posting into the night …
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"A.I. cos are often sanguine about export controls (which undermine their Chinese competitors) and want fewer regulations ... on A.I. Semiconductor companies, by contrast, are much more concerned about export controls, which ... limit their access to global markets" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Moving toward payments in digital renminbi is difficult because China restricts how its currency can be moved in or out of the country, which "[makes] the renminbi an ineffective way for foreigners to store value" #finance #geopolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
nytimes.com
Aiming at the Dollar, China Makes a Pitch for Its Currency
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is "the most significant update of the [nuclear] doctrine between Britain and France since 1995, when Britain and France agreed to deepen their nuclear cooperation under John Major, the prime minister, and Jacques Chirac, the French president" #geopolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
nytimes.com
U.K. and France Sign First Nuclear Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I know that there is *other news,* but still … :)
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“Members of the Freedom Caucus and others who raised concerns eventually got on board after House leadership agreed to attach a provision banning a central-bank digital currency to an annual defense spending bill that must be passed” #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
House Passes Crypto Bills After Trump Rallies Republicans
The bills establish standards for stablecoins, lay out rules for crypto exchanges and ban central-bank digital currencies.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16/07/2025
🗳 Update: World Liberty Financial token holders voted to make the tokens transferable. Move is the first step towards Trump eventually being able to liquidate at least some of his 22.5 billion tokens. Backstory: www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
WLFI
@worldlibertyfi
🚨 Big news from the WLFI community 🚨

The community has officially voted — and the results were overwhelming.

✅ $WLFI will be tradable
💪 The people have spoken

Now it’s time to execute.
Standby for the full launch plan — coming soon. 🦅 ☝️
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The CLARITY Act - "a market structure measure" would divvy up oversight of the digital asset market among various financial regulators #finreg www.politico.com/newsletters/...
politico.com
Crypto lobbyists blanket the Hill
Crypto lobbyists are mounting a full-court press in Washington ahead of a pivotal week for the industry.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"The possibility of Wall Street’s traditional powers teaming up to issue their own stablecoin marks the latest sign that mainstream and crypto finance are inching closer together"
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“So far, there have been few signs of alarm in markets that Trump would actually try to remove Powell before his term as chair expires next May”
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
"Binance executives asked Treasury officials in Washington to remove a U.S. monitor that oversees the exchange’s compliance with anti-money-laundering laws" - the first step to return the company to the U.S. market #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Binance Seeks to Curb U.S. Oversight While in Deal Talks With Trump’s Crypto Company
These moves mark the progression of a growing alliance between the Trump family and Binance, which pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering laws in 2023.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
"In March, Binance announced that MGX, an investment fund backed by the government of Abu Dhabi, would invest $2 billion in the exchange using stablecoins... The coin chosen for the transaction was World Liberty’s USD1, Mr. Witkoff said" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
nytimes.com
At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Kevin Hassett, one of Trump’s closest economic advisers, is emerging as a serious contender to be the next Fed chair. Hassett’s rise threatens the other Kevin—former Fed governor Kevin Warsh—who has angled for the position ever since Trump passed him over for it eight years ago.
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Exclusive | Two Kevins Battle to Be Next Fed Chair in Trump’s ‘Apprentice’-Style Contest
Kevin Hassett has emerged as a contender to succeed Jerome Powell, posing a possible threat to Kevin Warsh, an early favorite
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The future after the GENIUS Act w/numerous companies issuing their own stablecoins "bears an uncanny resemblance to the way America’s monetary system functioned from the mid-1830s until the Civil War, a period known as the Free Banking Era" #finreg www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Genius Act Will Bring Economic Chaos
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"A so-called governance token, $WLFI cannot be traded but gives holders the right to vote on changes to the business' underlying code. World Liberty said this week it was "working behind the scenes" to make the token transferable” #stablecoin www.reuters.com/business/fin...
reuters.com
UAE fund buys $100 million of Trump's World Liberty tokens
A United Arab Emirates-based fund has bought $100 million worth of digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture of U.S. President Donald Trump's family, becoming its largest publicly known investor.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"the GENIUS Act prohibits interest payments on stablecoin holdings (or excludes interest-bearing issuers from its scope), reinforcing its view that dollar-pegged tokens are for payments, not investments" #finreg
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Comments from Europe look different than most Bluesky comments from the US will as they accumulate #democracy #autocracy
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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Bessent on CNBC indicates again that Aug. 1 is the new tariff deadline. "Countries would not go back to the reciprocal rate until August 1," Bessent says. Letters will say "Here's the rate, unless you want to come back and try to negotiate," Bessent says.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
p.24 - next step: eliminate the category of “climate research”
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"An early proposal, the STABLE Act of 2020, [required] stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter and be subject to federal oversight, which would include regulation as insured depository institutions under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp." #finreg news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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GENIUS Act Is a Promising Step for Crucial Stablecoin Regulation
Opinion: Indiana University's Vivian Fang says the Senate's passage of stablecoin legislation is an important milestone, but establishing robust, enforceable audit practices could be difficult.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Current contenders (Powell doesn't leave until May '26): Kevin Warsh (former Fed Governor), Kevin Hassett (National Economic Council), Christopher Waller (Fed Governor) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
reuters.com
Trump says he is considering three or four candidates for next Fed chair
President Donald Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell "terrible" and said he knows three or four people who are contenders for the next chair of the Federal Reserve.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thiel, also in '24: "Palantir, he said, 'is connected with this great set of geopolitical questions about the Western world versus the rising authoritarian powers. So if we can get our governments to function somewhat better, it’s a way to rebalance things in the direction of the West" #geopolitics
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Karp from Aug. '24: "aside from their ideological stances, 'with corrupt countries, you never get paid'" www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/s...
nytimes.com
Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Historically, cryptocurrency has been excluded from underwriting frameworks due to volatility, regulatory uncertainty, and the inability to easily verify reserves. This directive changes that" #mortgage #asset #crypto www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/t...
cnbc.com
Trump administration moves to count crypto as a federal mortgage asset
The Trump administration is ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to formally consider cryptocurrency as an asset in single-family mortgage loan risk assessments.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"In one case, a veteran finance minister from Pakistan met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sister-in-law and the 19-year-old son of a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. to discuss digital assets" www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
The Father Pursues Trump’s Diplomatic Deals. The Son Chases Crypto Deals.
While Steve Witkoff travels the world as Middle East envoy, his son Zach is pitching foreign deals for his cryptocurrency venture with the Trumps.
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Waller ... suggested that there is little a central bank digital offering could do that the private sector cannot and that the potential benefits of a digital dollar are most likely overstated, while the risks are substantial" #finreg www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/b...
nytimes.com
Dividing lines harden as the Fed contemplates issuing a digital dollar. (Published 2021)
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cur1ous.bsky.social @cur1ous.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Current contenders (Powell doesn't leave until May '26): Kevin Warsh (former Fed Governor), Kevin Hassett (National Economic Council), Christopher Waller (Fed Governor) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
reuters.com
Trump says he is considering three or four candidates for next Fed chair
President Donald Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell "terrible" and said he knows three or four people who are contenders for the next chair of the Federal Reserve.
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