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SEC's 402-Page Crypto Rulebook, Bitcoin Rally & Compound's Institutional Pivot
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
The SEC dropped a 402-page proposed crypto framework with a decentralization safe harbor, while Bitcoin surged 22% on CLARITY Act momentum and $517M in ETF inflows. Today's briefing covers the regulatory shift, institutional DeFi moves, prediction market crackdowns, and what the NFT volume spike actually means.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
The SEC just published a four-hundred-and-two-page proposed rulebook for crypto. After a decade of enforcement actions, the agency is now writing permanent rules.
Running parallel to this is momentum on Capitol Hill. Trump publicly backed the CLARITY Act during a White House meeting with crypto executives, and the market noticed immediately.
Away from the regulatory front, Compound DAO approved a fifty-two-million-dollar development initiative targeting institutional infrastructure and real-world asset integration. The protocol hired Aaron Schnarch, former head of Coinbase Custody, as Executive Director.
Prediction markets are under coordinated pressure globally. South Korea's communications regulator voted to block domestic access to Polymarket, classifying it as illegal gambling.
One data point worth filtering carefully: weekly NFT sales jumped one hundred and seventy percent to ninety-five-point-four-eight million dollars. Strip out a single fifty-five-million-dollar Pandora transaction across nine trades, and organic volume was forty-point-two-eight million.
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