The main thing standing between millennials and home ownership isn't the average price of housing VASTLY exceeding both inflation and average salaries. It's millennials splurging on $7 rotisserie chickens instead of saving.

🚨In 5 weeks, the most influential policymakers in America will take the stage The Digital Chamber’s 2026 DC Blockchain Summit. Senate leaders. House committee architects. Top financial regulators. The officials shaping digital asset policy - all in one room. Secure your spot

The Federal Reserve just published a staff paper on how to calculate initial margin for crypto derivatives in uncleared markets This isn't rulemaking, but does show how the Fed's research arm is thinking about crypto as its own asset class, separate from commodities or FX 🧵

“Last Tuesday, a gathering at the White House between senior policy staff from banks and crypto firms — plus trade group representatives — ended without a deal after the bank reps circulated a one-page document entitled, ‘Yield and Interest Prohibition Principles,’ stating that

Things got testy at points during House and Senate hearings with SEC Chair Atkins, and Uniswap had a week of legal dubs. Here's everything that happened in Crypto Law last week: nfttorney.com/2026/02/17/off…

Prediction markets are moving from the margins to the center of finance and policy. Today, The Digital Chamber is launching a dedicated Prediction Markets Working Group to shape the legal and regulatory framework and we look forward to working with CFTC Mike Selig along with our

Things you love to see. The law is clear that states do not get overrule a federal agency on topics which the agency has been granted exclusive authority to regulate. Looking forward to working with CFTC staff as they create tailored regs for modern prediction markets.

More voices advocating for DeFi in D.C. is always a value add. And Jake Chervinsky is an excellent choice to lead this new org. Great development at a crucial time in shaping how blockchain-enabled technologies are regulated. Love to see it.

U.S. Dollar-denominated stablecoins dominate the DeFi ecosystem, but it's not a lead we should take for granted. Data from our member Allium shows USD-denominated stablecoins make up ~97% of all currency-pegged DeFi activity today. Euro, Yuan, and JPY alternatives are still

so let me get this straight, majority of crypto is in existential crisis while - blackrock partners with uniswap - apollo partners with morpho - openai rolls out evmbench - hyperliquid launches us policy center genuinely some of the best news this space has seen in a very long

Bearish? The Chair of the SEC is cracking jokes about vibe coding in solidity and the largest asset managers on earth are plugging into DeFi and you're bearish?

I wish I never learned what Punch-kun was. I was just minding my own business online and now I'm emotionally invested in the life of a random monkey in Japan? Not cool.

Pretty big update from Hester Peirce and the SEC today. Stablecoins can now be treated similar to money-market funds. TLDR: Broker-dealers can now apply only a 2% haircut on proprietary positions, instead of the conservative 100% haircut many were using out of caution. Why

Two federal courts, and a third that waffled back and forth, didn’t find this so “patent.”

AI and quantum will reshape finance, energy, national security, and the future of digital assets. Today, we’re launching the AI & Quantum Working Group to ensure the U.S. leads and not follows. Policy, industry, and innovation at the same table. Let’s build what’s next. ⚡️ #AI

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