Author: CryptoPress

Banking trade groups are opposing a bipartisan compromise in the Clarity Act designed to settle the dispute over stablecoin yield. The proposed language by Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks bans passive yield but allows rewards for “bona fide” activities like staking and liquidity provision. Financial institutions argue the exceptions create loopholes that could lead to a $850 billion drop in community bank lending. A...

The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) has surpassed $5 billion in assets under management just five weeks after its April 2 launch. A record-breaking $1.1 billion single-day inflow signals a shift in investor focus from logic chips to the AI memory bottleneck. Key holdings including Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung represent over 70% of the portfolio as high-bandwidth memory demand spikes. The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) has emerged as the most...

Kalshi has secured $1 billion in a Series F funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to $22 billion. The round was led by Coatue Management with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Institutional trading volume on the platform has surged 800% over the last six months, driving annualized volume to $178 billion. Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market, announced Thursday that...