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Former UFC champ Conor McGregor, now a presidential candidate in Ireland, has proposed creating a national Bitcoin reserve as part of his campaign.

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The UK has unveiled draft crypto rules that align digital assets with securities law, aiming to position the country as a “safe harbor.”

Staking for Ether ETFs has been a hot topic in 2025, with Grayscale and Fidelity both filing for rule changes that would allow this functionality.

The vice president disclosed holding up to $500,001 in Bitcoin in August 2024, but seems to have taken a back seat to Donald Trump in pushing crypto policies at the White House.

After quashing a vote over a stablecoin bill in the Senate, a group of Democratic lawmakers reportedly asked Trump allies to consider his ties to the crypto industry.

Gemini’s new derivatives offering in Europe will include perpetual futures and other derivatives, which will be available to advanced exchange users.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott blamed the failure of the GENIUS Act on Democrat-led partisan politics.

Taiwan legislator Ko Ju-Chun proposed allocating a small percentage of the Taiwanese reserves to Bitcoin as part of the diversified reserve strategy.

The $38 million crypto seizure from Bybit hack-linked eXch was the third-largest crypto confiscation in the history of Germany’s federal criminal police.

The US Attorney said the 35-year-old Virginia man funded “vile terrorist atrocities” and helped female Islamic State members escape Syrian prison camps.

US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw says if approved, the settlement with Ripple would join the long line of dismissals that is slowly eroding the credibility of SEC lawyers in court.

Michelle Bond, facing campaign finance charges, is one of the last significant figures tied to cryptocurrency exchange FTX, through her husband, to be awaiting trial.

A federal court has agreed with the Trump-appointed US attorney to levy a harsh sentence on former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky.

The GENIUS Act failed to clear a procedure called cloture after pushback from Senate Democrats, who raised concerns about US President Donald Trump's crypto ventures.