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Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned SEC Chair Paul Atkins after fiscal 2025 enforcement actions fell to decade lows. SEC data showed 456 enforcement actions, including 303 standalone cases and US$17.9 billion in ordered monetary relief. Warren says the decline suggests regulatory retreat, while the SEC says it is refocusing on fraud and investor harm. Senator Elizabeth Warren accused US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins of likely misleading Congress after newly released fiscal 2025 data showed enforcement actions falling to their lowest level in a decade. Warren sent Atkins a letter on April 17 after the SEC released its…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Users paid $9.7 billion in on-chain fees in the first half of 2025, up 41% year over year and the second-highest total on record.1kx projects more than $32 billion in on-chain fees for 2026, driven by accelerating application growth. That growth has pushed the word “revenue” into every crypto investor pitch deck, every sector report, and every valuation conversation.The report added that a Bitcoin drawdown may stress-test protocol fees.1kx’s April sector analysis finds that nearly every crypto fee category shows a positive correlation with BTC price. There is also wide dispersion across sectors, and the critical…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Morgan Stanley launched its spot Bitcoin ETF on Apr. 8 on NYSE Arca, calling MSBT the first cryptocurrency ETP from a US bank-affiliated asset manager and pricing its sponsor fee at 0.14%, the lowest Bitcoin ETP sponsor fee.By Apr. 16, Farside Investors’ data showed cumulative net inflows of $116 million across seven trading sessions.Against Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s $1.9 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2025, that figure represents roughly 0.006% of the platform. At the 0.14% fee rate, it would generate only about $162,400 in annual gross revenue if assets were held…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Crypto traders traded more than $500 million in synthetic oil futures over the weekend on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, betting that renewed military conflict in the Middle East could push crude prices back to $100 a barrel.The surge in blockchain-based trading followed Iran’s abrupt decision to shut the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, reversing a reopening announced just a day earlier.Reports of attacks on vessels near the vital waterway sent investors scrambling for ways to hedge their energy exposure while traditional global financial markets were closed. Related ReadingBitcoin shrugs off oil surge and geopolitical tension,…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Bitcoin’s network just recorded its lowest activity in eight years, and the price has barely flinched.CryptoQuant flagged that active BTC addresses hit their lowest level since 2016 on Apr. 8. At the same time, Glassnode’s latest 24-hour reading puts active addresses at 661,313, a number that, set against a price near $78,000, produces one of the more uncomfortable charts in recent crypto history.The reading that quiet networks are quiet markets misses what has changed structurally. A growing share of Bitcoin exposure now trades without leaving any footprint on the base layer.BlackRock’s IBIT delivers Bitcoin exposure through…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street’s most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions.Regulators signed off on FINRA’s proposal to scrap a framework that long made it harder for smaller investors to make rapid-fire stock trades, replacing it with a system aimed at measuring intraday risk.The change might not be a rewrite of crypto regulation per se, but it carries certain implications for Bitcoin because the same retail crowd that speculates in stocks and options often moves through crypto too. Related ReadingWhy…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on A White House digital assets official has slammed the traditional banking sector’s continued opposition to the proposed stablecoin yield compromise in the CLARITY Act.On April 17, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the White House Presidential Advisory Committee on Digital Assets, accused the financial institutions of “greed or ignorance” due to their intensified lobbying efforts to block yield-bearing stablecoins in the upcoming legislation.According to him:“It’s hard to explain any further lobbying by banks on this issue as motivated by anything other than greed or ignorance. Move on.”US lawmakers make bipartisan sablecoin yield compromise for CLARITY ActThe…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Charles Schwab announced this week that it will begin selling Bitcoin and Ethereum directly to its 39 million brokerage clients. They will appear in the same account view as stocks, ETFs, and retirement funds, in the same app, under the same brand, one click from the S&P 500 index fund a customer bought for their IRA.What makes that arrangement so consequential is that the assets will arrive in one of the most familiar and trusted environments in American finance, while carrying a very different set of protections from what customers are used to seeing there.Schwab’s own…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Washington isn’t trying to solve every crypto policy fight at once, but it appears to be carving out a workable path for one specific category of digital asset: the regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoin.The GENIUS Act established the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, and a bipartisan House tax discussion draft now proposes friendlier tax treatment for those same tokens when people actually use them.Together, the two efforts point toward a deliberate, stablecoins-first lane in American crypto policy that could reshape how users, merchants, and issuers interact with digital dollars in the years ahead.What the stablecoin tax…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on For most of its life, crypto lived outside the financial system. If you wanted to move dollars in or out of an exchange, that money still had to pass through a regular bank somewhere along the way. Most people assumed it would stay that way until Washington finally decided how to regulate it.But that assumption is now breaking down. In March 2026, a regional Federal Reserve bank approved a limited account for Kraken, the first time a crypto exchange has ever been allowed to plug directly into the US central bank’s payment system. More approvals could…