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China's central bank ran its first-ever overnight reverse repo on June 29, injecting 300 billion yuan at a 1.25% rate it refused to disclose, 10 basis points below the median analy…
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter ends 91 years of independent-agency protection, extending presidential removal power to the SEC and CFTC by the same constitu…
The IDF demolished a 200-meter-long, 25-meter-deep Hezbollah drone complex under the Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun on June 28, two days after signing a US-brokered trilateral sec…
Strategy unveiled a five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework on June 29, authorizing up to $1.25B in bitcoin sales, raising STRC dividends to 12%, and hard-coding a $2.55B cash r…
The Bank for International Settlements released its 2026 Annual Economic Report on June 28, warning that an AI capex bust, opaque circular financing deals, and record sovereign deb…
The Supreme Court is expected to rule imminently on whether Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, the first presidential attempt to remove a sitting Fed board member in the centra…
NYK Line CEO Takaya Soga told the Financial Times that Hormuz shipping will remain well below prewar levels for months. With 80 naval mines sitting in the main traffic lane, the U.…
El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office has continued announcing Bitcoin purchases since signing a $1.4 billion IMF deal that required the public sector to confine Bitcoin-related ac…
Alan Greenspan died June 22, 2026 at age 100. He authored 'Gold and Economic Freedom' in 1966. He then ran the Fed for 19 years and built the debt machine Satoshi was responding to…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged reconstruction support for Iran on June 22, signaling Beijing intends to secure long-term oil access in exchange. Every infrastructure cont…
Iran's IRGC struck a cargo ship near Oman on June 25, pausing the UN's strait evacuation plan and breaking a week-old ceasefire. OFAC has designated the IRGC's toll-collecting enti…
DMND mining pool and GoMining mined block 955,318 on June 25, using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature for the first known time in a live production environment, shifting transac…
Bitcoin's one-week options skew is flashing a ~24-point put premium, a panic-level read last seen near an interim bottom earlier this year. The BEA releases May PCE at 8:30 a.m. ED…
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion from 60+ sanctioned Iranian entities through CoinEx since 2019, making it Iran's primary international crypto exit ramp by 2024. OFAC's June 2 sanctio…
India is on track to import a record 2.35 million bpd of Russian crude in June 2026, with Russia accounting for 53.5% of all Indian oil imports. The U.S. sanctions waiver on Russia…
Nouriel Roubini has co-authored a whitepaper for USAFi, a tokenized ERC-20 security he frames as the first 'Technodollar' instrument. The pivot confirms elite macro consensus has a…
The Federal Reserve's proposed 'payment account' would let legally eligible fintechs settle directly through the Fed. Congress is now debating the access terms, the moral hazard, a…
Sen. Steve Daines says the Senate Finance Committee has a crypto tax framework ready and could hold a markup by fall 2026, the clearest timeline signal yet from the upper chamber's…
A Bitcoin Policy Institute fellow projects sovereign nations will dominate Bitcoin mining by 2036 by monetizing stranded power. The Bhutan data already challenges that thesis.
The CLARITY Act is one Senate floor vote from becoming law. Buried in its conforming amendments is a provision that could force corporate Bitcoin treasury companies into CFTC commo…
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