Opinion

September 25, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has scheduled an open meeting next week to review several issues. Perhaps the most important for investors is a potential update to the definition of an Accredited Investor. In general, an Accredited Investor is someone who earns over $200,000… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), issued a concise public reply after venture capitalist Jason Calacanis posted a lengthy critique that treated Bitcoin as a technology whose cultural moment had passed. The comments appeared as the cryptocurrency recovered toward the $80,000 level. Calacanis… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:31 pm By Jeff Ramson  |  

For most of the last decade, the SPAC debate has been framed as SPACs versus IPOs, as if a company picks between two comparable routes to the public markets. The market is no longer organized that way: traditional equity capital markets have concentrated in larger,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Valley Bank and Sphere Labs have jointly published a report, called Runaway Dollarization, on dollar-based payment stablecoins- effectively, regulated digital dollars. The thesis is that the growth of digital dollars will boost dollarization in a positive way while also reducing reliance on local currencies… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin bulls are celebrating today as the world’s most popular crypto moves higher. Currently, $BTC is up by over 5%, topping $85,000 for the first time since last January. Last week, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, failed in the Senate on a cloture… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder who now leads Flop Labs and serves as chief investment officer at Maelstrom, used Bitcoin’s rebound above $81,000 to argue that Washington’s latest market-structure bill was never the real catalyst. In his telling, crypto did not need the Digital Asset… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan now argues that the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act is unlikely to halt the cryptocurrency rally that began in early July. In a September 16 memo, he recast the legislative setback as a temporary obstacle rather than… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

A seismic shift for global finance as the US regulator brings the $75 trillion plus US equity market into the digital age As the tokenization market is predicted to quickly top trillions of dollars in securities within a few years, global participants in the tokenization… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

CI has received dozens of comments about the US Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act. The legislation would have protected consumers while enabling innovation with defined regulatory oversight. This common-sense approach was crushed by midterm politics and the Democratic Party’s refusal to give Republicans… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

A group of seven Democratic senators issued a statement declaring their support for the CLARITY Act after voting against the bill this week, effectively killing it for now. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Angela Alsobrooks, Cory Booker, Catherine Cortez Masto, Ruben Gallego, Mark Warner, and Raphael Warnock stated: “Democrats… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve‘s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously to raise benchmark rates by 25 basis points. The move was widely expected, but market indices took the news poorly, with most sectors closing down for the day. At the same time, yields of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

  The dust has yet to settle on the failed vote in the US Senate that would have advanced the CLARITY Act to a vote for future consideration. The vote was a procedural move for cloture, which would have established sufficient support to avoid a… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

The cloture vote on the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, as supporters fell short of the 60 votes needed to open debate on the legislation. The final tally was disappointing as several Republican senators, including Senators Hawley, Collins, and Moran, typically more supportive of… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

With a cloture vote scheduled for today and market participants hopeful the bill will move forward, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, continues to have a dim outlook on prediction markets that the bill will be approved. Kalshi currently has just a 33% expectation that… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

FUD, or fear, uncertainty, and doubt, can effectively influence individuals’ hearts and minds. The unknown can lead to risk, and the possibility of something bad happening, even when the probability is low, can drive decisions. FUD is what the banking industry has leveraged to strip… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Senator Cynthia Lummis, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and a keen supporter of digital asset innovation, says that some Democrats simply won’t support the CLARITY Act no matter what. The CLARITY Act is scheduled for a cloture vote tomorrow (Tuesday, September 14, 2026)… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pretty much across the board, analysts and observers expect the US Federal Reserve to raise benchmark rates this week by at least 25 basis points. Prediction markets have the probability at near certainty. Kalshi is currently at 86% for a 25 bps hike. Polymarket is… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The time has come for the US Senate to determine if the US is going to move forward with profoundly vital crypto market legislation. The CLARITY Act is expected to come to a vote tomorrow for cloture and to open up the bill for debate…. Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:12 pm By Barry James  |  

The Existential AI-Race Seeking Rescue From The Drowning It’s T minus 10, Cape Canaveral,1962 – the height of the space race. An astronaut sits atop a NASA rocket with over a hundred tonnes of explosive propellant beneath his seat, contemplating that each component was built… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) chief executive officer Vlad Tenev has restated that publicly traded companies should not automatically possess the power to block third-party stock tokens linked to their shares. The comments, published Friday on his X account, extend a public disagreement with AMC Entertainment (NYSE:… Read More