A public spat between one of Wall Street's most powerful executives and a top White House official has put the future of stablecoin regulation squarely in the crosshairs - and it's beginning to drag broader crypto legislation down with it.
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The battle over U.S. crypto legislation has entered a decisive phase. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took to X on March 3, 2026, to declare that the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is fundamentally about protecting American consumers - not the industry - and warned that Washington's patience with delay is running out.
Kraken has become the first cryptocurrency company to gain access to core payment infrastructure used by traditional U.S. banks, marking a significant step toward deeper integration between digital asset platforms and the country’s financial system.
Bitcoin climbed above the $71,000 level on Wednesday, extending a multi-day advance that has lifted the broader cryptocurrency market toward a $2.36 trillion valuation.
Crypto exchange-traded funds showed mixed institutional positioning on March 3, with Bitcoin funds attracting strong inflows even as Ethereum products recorded modest outflows.
Tether's newly launched American stablecoin has cleared its first reserve check — and for the first time, a Big Four auditor has put its name on a Tether-linked product.
Ripple has overhauled its payments platform into a single end-to-end system capable of handling both traditional fiat currencies and digital stablecoins - a move that puts it in direct competition with the fragmented stack of legacy financial infrastructure.
Jan van Eck, chief executive of investment management firm VanEck, told CNBC's Power Lunch on Monday that Bitcoin is in the process of bottoming out - though he stopped well short of declaring a full recovery, framing 2026 as the bear phase of a well-worn four-year cycle.
The Bank of Japan will begin experimenting with blockchain technology to settle bank reserves, marking one of its clearest steps yet toward integrating distributed ledger infrastructure into the core of the country’s financial system.
Digital-asset exchange-traded funds drew renewed inflows at the start of March, even as major tokens consolidated following Bitcoin’s brief move toward the $70,000 level.
A draft bill submitted to Turkey’s Grand National Assembly proposes sweeping changes to the taxation of digital assets, introducing a 10% withholding tax on crypto profits and a separate transaction levy.
Bitcoin is approaching what analysts describe as a historically significant timing window - one that, in previous cycles, has coincided with macro bear market bottoms.