# Blockchain Related Articles

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Blockchain Association Urges Senate To Pass CLARITY Act With Letter Backed By 160 Ex-Officials

The Blockchain Association, along with 160 former national security and law enforcement officials, has urged Senate leaders to pass the CLARITY Act. They argue that without clear federal regulation, crypto activity will move to opaque offshore markets, hindering U.S. efforts to combat financial crime. The letter highlights that the Act would strengthen law enforcement by expanding anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act, improving information sharing between agencies like the Treasury, DOJ, and FBI, and enhancing oversight of digital asset kiosks with measures like transaction monitoring and fraud prevention. The Association emphasizes these are enforcement enhancements, not deregulation. Momentum for the bill is building, with a Senate vote expected this summer, though it would still need reconciliation with a previously passed House version.

bitcoinist2h ago

Blockchain Association Urges Senate To Pass CLARITY Act With Letter Backed By 160 Ex-Officials

bitcoinist2h ago

Ripple’s RLUSD Lands In Mastercard’s Stablecoin Settlement Expansion

Mastercard is expanding its stablecoin settlement capabilities, adding Ripple's RLUSD alongside other regulated stablecoins like USDC and PYUSD. This move allows issuers and acquirers to settle card transactions using digital assets on various blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, and the XRP Ledger. The enhancement introduces intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement options, aiming to provide more flexibility, especially for cross-border payments and treasury operations. Mastercard positions this as a network-level addition that complements existing processes, with initial support focused on the US and Latin America. Ripple views RLUSD's inclusion as validation for regulated stablecoins in institutional payment infrastructure, highlighting the growing demand for faster, always-on settlement.

bitcoinist5h ago

Ripple’s RLUSD Lands In Mastercard’s Stablecoin Settlement Expansion

bitcoinist5h ago

From Web3 to AI Agent: Veteran Crypto VC Variant Bets $300 Million on Pivot

Variant Fund has announced the launch of Variant 4, a new $222 million early-stage venture fund. Its investment thesis has evolved from "digital ownership" to a broader theme of "sovereignty," focusing on technologies that enhance user agency—the control individuals have over their lives, assets, and identity. The firm distinguishes between mere automation and systems that genuinely empower users, emphasizing that the key question is who ultimately benefits: the user or the platform. This new framework encompasses Variant's existing investments in areas like public blockchains (Ethereum, Solana), developer infrastructure, decentralized finance (e.g., Uniswap), and consumer applications. It also informs recent early bets on projects such as Honcho (for self-custodial AI agent memory), Octet (cryptographic verification of physical location), and here.now (an "agent cloud" for owning and composing generative content). Variant's core mission remains to back founders building technologies that expand user sovereignty, moving towards an internet where users possess unprecedented agency rather than being the product.

marsbit5h ago

From Web3 to AI Agent: Veteran Crypto VC Variant Bets $300 Million on Pivot

marsbit5h ago

BREAKING: Mastercard Just Opened Its Global Payment Network To Crypto — Which Altcoins Made The Cut?

Mastercard announced the expansion of its global settlement infrastructure to support on-chain settlement using regulated stablecoins. This enables card transactions to settle 24/7, eliminating delays from traditional banking hours. The initial rollout supports six stablecoins—USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD—across eight blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, and the XRP Ledger. The service is launching with partners in the U.S. and Latin America. This is a back-end settlement upgrade, not a consumer-facing change, allowing network partners to optionally use blockchain rails while traditional fiat settlement remains available.

bitcoinist13h ago

BREAKING: Mastercard Just Opened Its Global Payment Network To Crypto — Which Altcoins Made The Cut?

bitcoinist13h ago

XRP Marks 14th Birthday While Ripple Expands DC Presence

XRP marked its 14th anniversary on June 2, with founders and the community celebrating its origins. The date commemorates a key 2012 code commit that established its fixed 100 billion token supply. Concurrently, Ripple announced an expansion of its Washington, D.C. office, emphasizing a commitment to engaging with U.S. policymakers and regulators on digital asset frameworks. The company aims to help shape policy around market structure, stablecoins, and financial innovation. XRP traded at $1.24 at the time of reporting.

bitcoinist16h ago

XRP Marks 14th Birthday While Ripple Expands DC Presence

bitcoinist16h ago

Anchorage Digital and Real Finance Partner to Advance Institutional RWA Tokenization

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., and Real Finance, a Layer 1 blockchain for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, have announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration aims to support the full lifecycle of tokenized assets, covering issuance, custody, settlement, servicing, and secondary liquidity. Key areas include Anchorage providing regulated custody for the Real Finance ecosystem and its $ASSET token, serving as a foundational custody layer for institutional products on the blockchain, and mutual support for each other's institutional client pipelines. Executives from both companies emphasized that tokenization alone is insufficient for institutional adoption, highlighting the need for integrated, regulated infrastructure for custody, settlement, and lifecycle management to move from pilots to functional on-chain capital markets. The partnership seeks to address fragmentation in the tokenized asset ecosystem by combining blockchain technology, regulated custody, and tokenization infrastructure to support assets like private credit, real estate, and financial instruments.

TheNewsCrypto16h ago

Anchorage Digital and Real Finance Partner to Advance Institutional RWA Tokenization

TheNewsCrypto16h ago

Blockmaze Defines the Future of RWA Tokenisation with Compliance-First Infrastructure for a $500T On-Chain World

Blockmaze, a regulated ecosystem for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) backed by Finvasia Group, is launching compliance-first infrastructure to bridge traditional finance and blockchain. It aims to solve the critical challenge of connecting digital tokens to legally recognized ownership and regulatory frameworks. With licenses across eight jurisdictions and over 45 regulatory registrations, Blockmaze provides a platform for issuers and institutions to tokenize assets like real estate, stocks, and commodities securely and compliantly. The goal is to unlock institutional trust and accelerate the transition of a portion of the estimated $500+ trillion global asset market onto the blockchain. The company's CEO, Tajinder Virk, emphasizes that the future of tokenization hinges not just on technology, but on regulated infrastructure that ensures legal recognition and trust.

TheNewsCrypto19h ago

Blockmaze Defines the Future of RWA Tokenisation with Compliance-First Infrastructure for a $500T On-Chain World

TheNewsCrypto19h ago

Crypto is dead, Perps are forever

The crypto industry is shifting from a focus on creating native assets (like altcoins and protocol tokens) to becoming a "global asset pipeline." Native cryptocurrencies, except for Bitcoin, are seen as failing in their value storage and utility promises, with demand driven largely by speculation. Attention and liquidity are now moving toward real-world assets (RWAs) like U.S. stocks, bonds, gold, and oil traded on-chain via perpetual contracts (Perps). Stablecoins like USDT and USDC set the precedent, proving blockchain's core strength is efficient global settlement and transfer, not inventing new monetary systems. Meanwhile, assets like Ethereum and many DeFi tokens struggle as their narratives weaken against tangible traditional assets and the rapid real-world progress of AI. Perpetual contracts have emerged as a pivotal innovation. They simplify trading by offering pure price exposure to any asset, bypassing complexities of ownership, custody, and traditional market hours. Projects like Hyperliquid gained traction by combining CEX-like efficiency with on-chain transparency, capitalizing on post-FTX distrust, macroeconomic volatility, and the surge in demand for 24/7 stock trading. In conclusion, while the era of speculative native "crypto assets" may be over, perpetual contracts persist as the industry's most potent financial instrument—transforming all assets into globally accessible, constantly tradable instruments centered on price speculation.

marsbit20h ago

Crypto is dead, Perps are forever

marsbit20h ago

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