🔖 CLARITY Act ethics fight risks Senate failure

📌 Analysts and lawmakers have identified the ethics provision as the CLARITY Act’s most consequential unresolved issue heading to the Senate floor. Republicans hold 53 seats and need 60 votes to clear a filibuster, meaning at least seven Democrats must vote yes.

⚠️ Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat who has backed crypto regulation, told audiences at Consensus Miami 2026 that the bill will not move without an ethics clause. “This provision will be part of this bill, or it will not go forward,” she said. “Because we cannot let greed and corruption in Washington tear this industry down, and without that provision, that’s exactly what will happen.”

‼️ The Van Hollen amendment that would have blocked senior government officials from holding crypto business interests was voted down 11 to 13 in committee.

👀 The White House has been explicit. Crypto adviser Patrick Witt said ethics rules should apply “across the board, from the president all the way down to the brand new intern on Capitol Hill,” but that language singling out a specific officeholder is unacceptable.

⭐️ Cody Carbone, who heads the Digital Chamber, told reporters a deal will almost certainly be required before the bill reaches the floor. “I imagine the deal will be completed before this goes to the floor, because they’ll want to only bring it to the floor if they feel confident they’ve got 60,” he said.

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🔔 Nashville freshman Rep pushes Bitcoin reserve bill into law

📌 Rep. Matt Van Epps told Bitcoin Magazine that the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 is a direct reflection of what he sees happening in his own district. “Nashville is one of the nation’s leading Bitcoin hubs,” Van Epps said, pointing to Bitcoin Park, the city’s digital asset community, and the annual Bitcoin conference returning to Nashville in 2027.

❗️ Van Epps is one of 18 original cosponsors of ARMA, introduced on May 21 by Rep. Nick Begich alongside Democratic co-lead Rep. Jared Golden. The bill would codify President Trump’s March 2025 executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, giving it statutory permanence that no future administration could reverse with a pen stroke.

⚠️ As cryptonews reported, ARMA builds on the earlier BITCOIN Act framework that Begich introduced with Senator Cynthia Lummis in March 2025. The U.S. government currently holds an estimated 328,372 BTC accumulated through law enforcement seizures, including proceeds from the Silk Road takedown and the 2022 Bitfinex hack recovery. The bill also affirms that the federal government may not impair the lawful right of individuals to own, transfer, or self-custody digital assets. It directs a study on budget-neutral acquisition strategies to evaluate methods for expanding reserves without increasing taxes or deficit spending.

➡️ White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt said at Bitcoin 2026 in late April that a “breakthrough” tied to the administration’s Bitcoin reserve plans could arrive in coming weeks. A Senate companion version from Senators Lummis and Cassidy includes similar codification provisions.

🔔 Where SoftBank stands to benefit on Japan’s stablecoin plans

❗️ Japan’s ruling party is pushing crypto ETFs and yen stablecoins, and that could turn SoftBank from a crypto-adjacent conglomerate into a central piece of Japan’s on-chain financial infrastructure. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has now moved beyond abstract crypto reform and into something more strategic: a formal proposal for crypto ETFs and yen-backed stablecoins as part of a broader attempt to keep the yen relevant in an increasingly tokenized regional economy.

⚠️ Reuters reported on June 1 that an LDP policy panel asked the government to promote yen stablecoins for settlement across Asia and build a legal framework for crypto exchange-traded funds.
The stablecoin side is the more consequential part of the proposal. Crypto ETFs can pull traditional investors into the market through regulated wrappers, and in a previous cryptonews piece on spot crypto, noted that the expectation was that domestic regulators could approve such products by 2028 if the rules are aligned with market demand and custody requirements.

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🔔 Gate opens access to Hong Kong stock trading powered by USDT

❗️ Gate has launched access to more than 1,000 Hong Kong-listed stocks through its platform, allowing users to trade equities with USDT as crypto exchanges continue adding traditional financial products alongside digital assets. Available stocks include major firms such as Tencent Holdings, HSBC Holdings, CATL, China Mobile, Xiaomi, Meituan, BYD, Ping An Insurance, AIA Group, and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.

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🔔 Money is rotating from Bitcoin into XRP. What the ETF flows show

⚠️ Something unusual is happening in the flow of institutional money through crypto exchange-traded funds. In a single recent week, United States spot Bitcoin ETFs shed roughly $1.44 billion, the largest weekly outflow of 2026, while spot XRP ETFs did the opposite, drawing fresh money and extending a streak that has now reached six consecutive weeks of inflows. Those XRP funds have drawn around $1.44 billion since launching in November 2025. Ethereum funds bled too, losing hundreds of millions, while XRP and Solana products absorbed a combined couple hundred million.

🌐 On the surface, the story writes itself: institutions are rotating out of Bitcoin and Ethereum and into XRP, a changing of the guard in where the smart money wants exposure. The flows are real and the divergence is striking. But what the rotation actually means is more complicated than the headline, and understanding the nuance is the difference between reading a genuine signal and overreading a small one.

⚠️ This piece works through what the ETF flow data actually shows, why XRP is attracting money while Bitcoin bleeds, the crucial caveat about the relative size of these flows, what the rotation does and does not tell us about XRP’s prospects, why the inflows have not lifted XRP’s price, and how to read this kind of flow data without drawing more from it than it supports.

🔔 India’s USDT premium doubles as regulatory action tightens supply

🔖 India’s USDT premium has climbed to more than 8.5%, more than twice its usual level, after enforcement action against crypto remittance firms has disrupted the domestic supply of the stablecoin. According to The Economic Times, Tether’s USDT traded at 102.88 Indian rupees on local crypto platforms over the weekend, while the USD-INR interbank rate closed at 94.65 rupees, creating a gap that is usually limited to around 3% to 4%.

🌐 The USDT premium moved above its normal range after the Enforcement Directorate raided six premises in Bengaluru on June 17 as part of an investigation under the Foreign Exchange Management Act. The agency alleged that five crypto payment firms enabled more than 2,500 crore rupees ($265 million) in unauthorized cross-border transfers using virtual digital assets.

⚠️ Investigators alleged that non-resident Indians used USDT instead of conventional bank remittance channels. According to the agency, users deposited rupees into company accounts before the funds were converted into stablecoins, transferred overseas and later sold on Indian exchanges, allowing transactions to bypass documentation and authorization requirements under FEMA and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

🌐 Bitcoin spam fight escalates as Dashjr backs BIP-110

🔖 Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has rejected calls to withdraw BIP-110, a disputed proposal that aims to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin. The proposal has renewed debate over whether the network should only process money transfers or also support data-heavy uses such as Ordinals and Runes. Dashjr wrote, “Saylor didn’t say anything about BIP110.” He added, “And no, it’s too late to cancel BIP110.” His comment came after fresh debate around Michael Saylor’s view that Bitcoin should change slowly and protect its core design.

⚠️ BIP-110, also called the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, seeks to place temporary limits on certain forms of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions. The proposal’s text says it aims to move Bitcoin back toward “the world’s money” by rejecting data storage as a supported use case at the consensus level. The dispute centers on block space. Supporters of BIP-110 argue that inscriptions, Runes and other data-heavy activity raise storage demands and push Bitcoin away from peer-to-peer payments.

📣 Critics argue that Bitcoin block space should remain open to any user willing to pay the required fee. They say attempts to restrict transaction content could create a harmful precedent and split users over subjective rules. The debate also followed Michael Saylor’s latest comments on Bitcoin’s role. Saylor said Bitcoin is not a technology stock, payments company, or software platform competing to add features.

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📌 Robinhood Chain threatens Base as daily transactions surge to 7.6 million

➡️ Robinhood Chain has processed 7.6 million daily transactions just 11 days after its mainnet launch, narrowing the gap with Coinbase’s Base and accelerating competition among Ethereum Layer 2 networks. According to on-chain data shared by MSBIntel and verified by Token Terminal, Robinhood Chain recorded 7.6 million transactions in a single day on July 11, while Base processed 9.2 million over the same period. The figures place Robinhood’s Arbitrum-powered Layer 2 much closer to the leading Ethereum scaling network than many expected so soon after its July 1 launch.

📣 Launched alongside Robinhood’s tokenized equities platform, the network has quickly become one of the busiest Layer 2 ecosystems by activity. The rapid increase has drawn attention from blockchain analysts and investors tracking Robinhood Markets’ stock, as the company expands beyond its brokerage business into blockchain infrastructure.

🔖 One factor behind the increase is Robinhood’s decision to pay users’ gas fees during the first 90 days of mainnet operations. By removing transaction costs through the end of September 2026, the company has lowered the barrier for retail traders, decentralized finance users, and memecoin participants to move assets on the network.