Markets are entering a data-light week clouded by contradictions. US growth is roaring back, the eurozone is stabilising, yet both economies remain under the spell of dovish central banks. For investors — especially in crypto — the question is whether the rebound is real, or just a mirage that could vanish under the weight of policy risk and structural weakness.
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Kraken Parent Payward Partners With GTN to Take xStocks Tokenized Stocks Global
The expansion starts with Hong Kong-listed equities and will extend to the UK, Europe and South Korea, using GTN's 90-market brokerage infrastructure to move xStocks beyond its US-stocks-only starting point.
New CLARITY Act Draft Adds Sunset Ethics Ban on Trump's Crypto Ties, But Democrats Aren't Sold
The near-final text, circulated to industry groups before Senate Democrats saw it, would have the Justice Department enforce a conflict-of-interest rule that expires in 2029, a structure one Democratic co-sponsor already calls unserious.
Wall Street Calls Tokenization Strategic – Its Own Survey Says Equities Are the Exception
A new Broadridge poll of 200 financial services executives finds near-unanimous conviction on tokenization broadly, but muted enthusiasm for stocks specifically, even as onchain data shows tokenized equity transfers up more than 170-fold in a year.
Russia's State Duma Passes First Comprehensive Crypto Law, Takes Effect September 1
The law lets licensed intermediaries sell crypto to retail investors under a roughly $3,800 annual cap and permits its use in foreign trade settlements, while keeping the domestic payment ban in place.