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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC issued a 5-year innovation exemption allowing tokenized US stocks to trade via permissioned AMMs on public blockchains.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC proposed letting blockchain ledgers serve as official records of securities ownership, which could reduce the dual recordkeeping that tokenized securities currently require.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC proposed modernizing transfer agent rules, last updated in the early 80s, to reflect the use of blockchain in securities offerings and share transfers.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC will hold a roundtable on Sept. 17 to discuss preparations for 24-hour trading, with BlackRock, Nasdaq, and Citadel among the panelists.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC's trading and markets director Jamie Selway told Bloomberg that if tokenized trading gains traction under the agency's 5-year Innovation Exemption, "it'll be really hard to remove the exemption."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The US government is considering an initiative to promote dollar-backed stablecoins abroad, with the aim of reinforcing the dollar's reserve currency status, per Bloomberg.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The US Treasury will buy back up to $6B in longer-term debt, tripling its normal operation, to try to keep bond markets liquid after yields hit their highest since before the 2008 crisis.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The White House says Trump is "unequivocal" that "Congress must pass the CLARITY Act so we can stay ahead of foreign competitors and lead the world in innovation."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Tom Lee told CNBC his "contrarian take" is that Democrats will flip to support the CLARITY Act after the midterms.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emerged as the frontrunner for President Trump's AI czar role, per Semafor.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he is "confident" Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will "optimize the path for both inflation and economic growth" and that Trump has "complete confidence" in him.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says US leadership in digital assets could reinforce the dollar's global dominance as tech strength grows more important to economic power.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Trump has said that Fed's interest rate policies are hurting the US "more than inflation is hurting our country."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Trump reportedly met with advisers on Friday to discuss ethics provisions in the CLARITY Act ahead of Tuesday' Senate procedural vote, per Politico.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Trump says he is forming an "AI Force" modeled on Space Force and will announce an AI "Czar," adding that AI could make up "possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 UBS Global Wealth Management expects the U.S. Fed to deliver 25 bp rate hikes in September and December 2026, vs prior forecast of no policy change.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Utah is suing Kalshi, calling it “the manager of a back-alley gambling den” and accusing it of a “brazen pattern of unlawful conduct.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Visa's head of crypto Cuy Sheffield told CNBC the GENIUS Act was a "huge" turning point, with banks and payments companies now wanting to work with Visa on stablecoin solutions.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt called the CLARITY Act's failed vote "a major disappointment" and "a failure of American leadership" that risks ceding global financial standards away from the US.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt called the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat "a major disappointment" and says a revival this Congress depends on how November's midterm elections go.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt told Semafor that "we have the moment right now" to pass the CLARITY Act, warning it would be "a true shame" if it fails.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt urged all senators, Democrat and Republican, to vote on Sept. 15 to advance the CLARITY Act and continue the legislative process.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Wyoming has adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve to give near-real-time onchain verification of the reserves backing its Frontier Stable Token.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US and China are reportedly preparing to put AI safety on the agenda at the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, potentially opening a rare channel for dialogue despite their intensifying tech rivalry, according to Nikkei Asia.

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