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Congress must decide how the U.S. can build the infrastructure its booming digital economy requires while protecting the communities that host it. The Ratepayer Protection Act recently failed a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate. With 57 senators voting to advance the measure and 43 opposed, it fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward. This isn't the end of the story for this policy idea. It is.

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Payward agreed to buy Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, which holds $190 million in total assets, securing an EU license for deposits and lending. Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, said it agreed to acquire Lithuania-based Saldo Bank for an undisclosed amount, giving it a European Union (EU) banking license as it expands beyond crypto trading into traditional financial services. The acquisition will make Payward the first crypto firm to.

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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 14, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. U.S. inflation is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones estimated September’s consumer price index rose 0.6% month-on-month and 3.6% year-on-year. Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, is forecast to increase 0.2% from August and 2.5% annually. The numbers are widely watched.

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Backed by BBVA, BNP Paribas, and ING, Qivalis secured Dutch regulatory authorization to offer onchain euro settlement infrastructure. Qivalis, the consortium backed by 37 major European banks, will soon be able to issue euro-denominated electronic money tokens (EMTs), a regulated form of stablecoin. The Amsterdam-based company said that the Bank of the Netherlands (DNB) had granted it an electronic money institution license. Qivalis must still meet the remaining requirements under.

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Bitcoin briefly reached $84,000 before easing back, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 0.6% since midnight as traders waited for U.S. inflation data. Bitcoin BTC$83,212.45 was trading around $83,450 in the European morning after briefly spiking to $84,000 at 08:00 UTC, having bounced from a low of $80,970 on Tuesday. Altcoins struggled to follow, with the CoinDesk 80 falling 0.6% since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 20 added 0.2%, leaving close.

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Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index. Talk about options on the S&P 500 index, and you are discussing a beast of a market that trades trillions of dollars in notional volume every day. Crypto traders now appear to want to access it over a blockchain. Hypercall illustrates the demand. The options platform built on Hyperliquid,.