Clarity Act Gets Markup Date, BlackRock's Big Tokenization Push, ZEC Quantum-Proof Roadmap Announced

Crypto majors are slightly green despite Trump rejecting the latest Iranian peace deal offer, leading to another oil spike; BTC +1% at $81k; ETH +1% at $2,330; SOL +1% at $95; HYPE -3% at $41.50. VVV (+15%), SUI (+11%) and H (+10%) led top movers. Oil rebounded 3% at $96; Gold -1% at $4,670. Stock futures are flat premarket. Strategy’s CEO Phong Le clarified that they will only sell BTC 1) to pay STRC dividends and 2) if its makes sense for tax optimization purposes. Coinbase suffered a service outage Thursday linked to an AWS cooling failure at a data center. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sold $540 million in COIN stock across 88 trades between April 2025 and January 2026. Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding full disclosure of Meta’s stablecoin integration plans before the Senate votes on the Clarity Act. SEC Chair Paul Atkins called for new rulemaking Friday to clarify how exchange, clearing agency, and broker definitions apply to onchain systems and DeFi protocols. Kraken parent Payward filed an application with the OCC for a national trust company charter, for institutional digital asset custody; if approved, Payward would hold the full CFTC derivatives stack, OCC trust charter, stablecoin payment rails in Asia (Reap), and retail trading (NinjaTrader) simultaneously. Rain’s head of strategic partnerships John Timoney told Consensus Miami that stablecoin card spend grew 105% year-over-year and stablecoin cards could hit double-digit market share in some Latin American markets within years; Rain, a Mastercard Principal Member valued at $1.95 billion, uses existing card infrastructure so merchants receive fiat while users spend stablecoins. ECB President Christine Lagarde warned Friday that even euro-denominated stablecoins could threaten financial stability and monetary policy transmission. XRP network active addresses and active supply fell sharply in Q1 2026, with new wallet creation down roughly 40% quarter-over-quarter despite XRP ETF inflows of $1.24 billion since late 2025. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets