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Weekly Roundup 07/25/25 (Tether’s GENIUS options, Defending Free Banks, Saylor’s Stretch) (EP.649)
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Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Defending “Free Banking” from the critics – and why stablecoins are unlike free banks
- The American Bankers Association doesn’t like new crypto charters
- Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces the company’s plan to launch a new US-based stablecoin this year
- Strategy announced the plans for the fourth preferred stock offering this week, STRC, or "Stretch."
- Anchorage Digital, which does hold an OCC banking charter, is launching a new stablecoin issuance platform. The first stablecoin product will be USDtb in partnership with Ethena Labs
- The Senate Banking Committee released their discussion draft for crypto market structure legislation this week, designed to build off the House's passage of the CLARITY Act last week
- Citadel Securities has expressed concern around the rise of tokenized securities
- Bhutan’s Bitcoin trade
- BitGo, a crypto custody provider, and Bullish, a crypto exchange, both announced that they had confidentially filed an S-1
Further reading:
- Wired, The Great Crypto Re-Banking Has Begun
- Galaxy Digital, Crypto Policy Under Trump: H1 2025 Report
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Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Defending “Free Banking” from the critics – and why stablecoins are unlike free banks
- The American Bankers Association doesn’t like new crypto charters
- Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces the company’s plan to launch a new US-based stablecoin this year
- Strategy announced the plans for the fourth preferred stock offering this week, STRC, or "Stretch."
- Anchorage Digital, which does hold an OCC banking charter, is launching a new stablecoin issuance platform. The first stablecoin product will be USDtb in partnership with Ethena Labs
- The Senate Banking Committee released their discussion draft for crypto market structure legislation this week, designed to build off the House's passage of the CLARITY Act last week
- Citadel Securities has expressed concern around the rise of tokenized securities
- Bhutan’s Bitcoin trade
- BitGo, a crypto custody provider, and Bullish, a crypto exchange, both announced that they had confidentially filed an S-1
Further reading:
- Wired, The Great Crypto Re-Banking Has Begun
- Galaxy Digital, Crypto Policy Under Trump: H1 2025 Report
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