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The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut, including bitcoin and ether and stablecoins like USDC and EURC.

The privacy token is up 130% over 30 days and trades near its all-time highs from 2016, while bitcoin sits at a three-and-a-half-week low below $76,000.

The USDC issuer’s chain is built for payments, tokenized assets and institutional finance as banks and payment giants pile into the stablecoin market.

Weakening U.S. demand, a setback for the Clarity act and expectations of a fed rate hike weigh on bitcoin.

U.S. prosecutors allege two engineers used confidential Robinhood token listing data to front-run announcements using Hyperliquid perpetual futures.

Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.

An aggressive market expectations trap and a strict aversion to forward guidance have backed the Fed chair into a corner, where failing to deliver a hawkish message risks destroying the central bank’s inflation-fighting credibility.

Bullish crypto futures bets worth millions have been liquidated in 24 hours. Bitcoin and ether longs have taken in the most losses.

The Senate’s 49-50 procedural vote left the crypto market structure bill 11 short of what it needed, and every major token fell.