The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a report on Federal Reserve policy issues that addresses cryptocurrency and digital currency topics and outlines a number of policy issues that Congress may want to consider, including: Whether cryptocurrency companies and other non-traditional companies with federal or state banking licenses should be granted direct access to the Federal Reserve's discount window and master account. It is reported that the Federal Reserve has previously refu...
Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot, expressed his satisfaction with the decentralization of Polkadot in a recent interview with Forbes. According to Nakaflow data, Polkadot currently has a Satoshi coefficient of 149, which means that it would take at least 149 independent validators to join forces to break the network. In comparison, some other major blockchains score...
According to Bitcoin.com, Iran expressed its support for the plan for a unified BRICS currency. The BRICS countries are accelerating the pace of reducing their dependence on the US dollar, and a unified currency could greatly promote economic ties among member states. Iran said it would fully support the plan if other member states agreed. In response, former US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs if the BRICS countries went ahead with the plan.
In response to a new proposal by the Celestia (TIA) community to reduce TIA inflation by 33%, Celestia founder Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote: "I support this proposal. When we first decided on the inflation rate, we referred to Solana's inflation plan to keep it relatively simple because we didn't want to follow the Cosmos standard inflation plan (i.e. permanent 10% inflation rate).
President Trump: If it is necessary to send troops into Gaza, we will do so.
On February 5th, US President Donald Trump said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States will "take over" the Gaza Strip, raze the area and rebuild it. Trump earlier said that the Palestinians living there should leave. "They can live and live in peace and joy in a beautiful land, and they can live in peace and harmony in other regions or countries for the rest of their lives," Trump said. "The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, ...
According to Cointelegraph, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty introduced the Stablecoin National Innovation Guidance and Establishment in the United States (GENIUS) Act, which aims to create a regulatory framework for stablecoins. The bill stipulates that issuers of stablecoins with a market cap of more than $10 billion will be subject to Federal Reserve regulation, while issuers below this threshold will be regulated by the states. The bill requires stablecoin issuers to provide monthly audited reserve...
Caroline Pham, acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said the regulator had restructured its enforcement arm to "refocus" on fighting fraud and "stop policing through enforcement," CoinDesk reported.
The change in API crude oil inventories for the week to January 31 in the United States recorded 5.025 million barrels, the largest increase since the week of October 4, 2024.
President Trump has signed an executive order announcing the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Near East (UNRWA).
US official: The secretary of state will amend or lift existing sanctions waivers and work with the US Treasury to implement an action "aimed at bringing Iran's oil exports to zero".
The monthly rate of U.S. factory orders in December was -0.9%, and expectations were -0.7%. The previous value was revised from -0.40% to -0.8%.
In the United States, there were 7.60 million job vacancies in JOLTs in December, and 8 million were expected. The previous value was revised from 8.098 million to 8.156 million.
U.S. factory orders recorded a -0.9% monthly rate in December, the largest decrease since June 2024.
U.S. job openings fell more than expected in December to a three-month low, in line with a gradual slowdown in the labor market. A survey released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that U.S. JOLTs fell to 7.60 million job openings in December from a revised 8.16 million in November. The figure was lower than economists had generally expected. The decrease in job openings was driven by professional and business services, partially reversing the surge seen in the previous two months...