Friday Five: SEC Turns Pro-Crypto, Tokenization Race Heats Up, Gemini IPO
This week’s Friday Five dives into the accelerating cryptoization of finance. SEC Chair Paul Atkins signaled a new era of pro-innovation policy, extending beyond crypto to AI and agentic trading. Sena...
13 Sep 202519min
SEC Chair: "Crypto’s Time Has Come"
SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the Gensler era of regulation by enforcement is over, as the agency launches Project Crypto to bring clarity and push capital markets on chain. From tokenization and super a...
12 Sep 20258min
Senate Democrats Unveil Competing Crypto Market Structure Bill
Senate Democrats have introduced their own framework for crypto market structure, setting up negotiations with Republicans and potentially clearing the way for bipartisan legislation. The proposal giv...
11 Sep 202511min
Soft Jobs Report Clears the Way for Fed Cuts
August’s jobs report showed just 22,000 payrolls added, unemployment rising to 4.3%, and manufacturing losses continuing—making it the weakest labor market since 2016. With downward revisions and a lo...
10 Sep 202511min
Stripe’s Tempo Chain and the Return of Enterprise Blockchains
Stripe has unveiled Tempo, a new blockchain built for high-throughput stablecoin payments, developed with Paradigm and backed by partners like Visa, Shopify, and Anthropic. The launch has set off a fi...
9 Sep 202514min
The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week
In this week’s Friday Five, the Fed announces a digital assets conference, the SEC and CFTC issue a rare joint crypto statement, and Trump family ventures shake up markets with new tokens and a Bitcoi...
6 Sep 202517min
The Fed’s Big Stablecoin Shift
The Federal Reserve will host a payments innovation conference next month with stablecoins at the center—a major change for an institution that long kept crypto at arm’s length. At the same time, the ...
5 Sep 20259min
Exchanges Get the Green Light to Offer Crypto
The SEC and CFTC have issued long-awaited joint guidance clarifying that regulated exchanges can list spot crypto assets. This marks a turning point in U.S. crypto policy, resolving years of turf wars...
4 Sep 202510min
