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OKX extended its $25B-valuation round and an OKX-ICE venture filed with the SEC for tokenized stocks, while Strategy leaned into STRC buybacks.

The rulebook mandates SET-only trading, blocks foreign-linked wrappers, and bans broker margin loans for purchases.

RWA.xyz logged 41% 30-day demand growth as SEC and DTCC steps open a clearer path for tokenized securities.

The group will report to Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and is framed as a coordination body across industry and civil society.

A House flip looks likelier than a Senate call, keeping 2027 oversight and near-term crypto tax bills in focus after Clarity Act failure.

The deal implies a pro forma equity value up to $1.1 billion as OpenPayd targets a U.S. launch by April 2027.

Midterm timing, retiring Senate champions, and unresolved ethics concerns leave no clear year-end path.

The White House called the reports speculation as Trump pushes an AI agenda built around industry “self-policing.”

The plan opens a 60-day comment window after Federal Register publication and hinges on asset-by-asset custody availability.

Disclosures tie about $8M to the market-structure bill, pushing the next catalyst toward SEC and CFTC rulemaking.

Seven open seats across the agencies will leave three commissioners overseeing parts of a roughly $3 trillion crypto market.

The stalled market-structure push shifts near-term policy focus back to SEC and CFTC actions ahead of Election Day.

The fund is distributed into institutional crypto settlement workflows without tokenizing shares onchain.

A Friday SEC filing said the miner ended the line without early termination fees or penalties.

The staff guidance puts issuer communications and token-econ programs back in the securities-law risk frame for altcoins.

The guidance addresses token marketing “essential managerial efforts,” staking receipt tokens, and secondary-market promoter risk.

The deal lands as Canadian banks test tokenized deposits and NYSE and Blockchain.com pursue tokenized stocks via an ATS.

At $5, XRP would imply a roughly $300B market cap, but the analysis argues usage and regulation are not yet aligned.

He tied early-2025 dismissals to a coming “180-degree change” in SEC crypto rulemaking.

The framework allows AMM trading on public blockchains but caps venues and gives issuers an objection right.