A House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Wednesday dredged up concerns about the pro-crypto regulatory shift under the Trump administration.

The pilot programs explore wholesale settlement between institutions and real-world use cases, along with stablecoin development and tokenized bank deposits.

Whether the Federal Reserve is engaging in quantitative easing is purely semantic, according to Alden, who says all roads lead to debasement.

Chris Dixon, a managing partner at a16z crypto, said that non-financial use cases in crypto will flourish when regulations become clear.

Crypto investor sentiment has fallen to levels last seen during the 2022 Terra-LUNA collapse, as weak prices and volumes weigh on market confidence.

The number of traders expecting a rate cut at the March Federal Open Market Committee meeting rose following fears of a hawkish Fed nominee.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) revised a previous staff letter to reflect the regulations in the GENIUS stablecoin framework.

Gemini, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2015, will focus on growth in the United States due to its deep capital markets.

Aster rebranded to become a crypto perpetual futures decentralized exchange in 2025, as perp DEX trading volume surged by trillions of dollars.

The proposed laws are meant to create a mass-surveillance state and are not about protecting children, Pavel Durov warned on Wednesday.

The comments came during Bessent's congressional testimony on Wednesday in a tense exchange with California Representative Brad Sherman.