Now Playing
Stripe's MiCA Win, Crypto Cards at $759M & Senate Crypto Vote | Sep 15
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Fintech and banking news hits a pivotal week: Stripe's Bridge unit secures a landmark MiCA passport license, Senate cloture forces a September 15 crypto regulation vote, and crypto-linked card spending doubles year-over-year to $759M. Five stories shaping digital finance right now.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Senate Majority Leader Thune has filed cloture to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act toward a floor vote on September fifteenth. That's the single clearest signal yet that Congress is serious about crypto regulation in twenty twenty-five.
While Congress debates, Europe has already moved. Stripe's Bridge subsidiary just secured a MiCA CASP license from Luxembourg's CSSF, approved as both a crypto-asset service provider and an electronic money institution.
There's a quieter signal in the stablecoin market worth watching. Approximately one point four billion dollars in USDC left circulation over the past thirty days.
On the spending side, the direction is unambiguous. Crypto-linked card transactions hit seven hundred fifty-nine million dollars in a single month, doubling year-over-year.
Nansen co-founder Svanevik has gone on record predicting Bitcoin holds above sixty thousand dollars and arguing that real-world asset tokenization is the mechanism that matures crypto beyond speculation. The RWA thesis connects directly to why infrastructure like Bridge's EU license matters: regulated stablecoin rails are a prerequisite for institutional tokenized asset settlement.
Chapter summary auto-generated from the verified script. Listen to the full episode for the complete content.