August 26, 2025

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Forget the Crypto Bros. Wall Street Is Driving the New Crypto Boom

The crypto market is on fire again, but this time, the fuel isn’t coming from “crypto bros” on social media. It’s coming from Wall Street, and it’s all based on a massive bet that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates. Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is leading the charge, surging nearly 10% in

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Crypto

The Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Is Expanding—Fast

The Trump family’s crypto empire is making another major move on Wall Street. World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm founded by the Trump family last September, has struck a massive deal that will see a publicly traded fintech company, ALT5 Sigma, purchase up to $1.5 billion of the family’s proprietary cryptocurrency, $WLFI. The deal is

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Crypto

The SEC Just Quietly Surrendered in Its Biggest Crypto Battle

The crypto world’s biggest and most consequential legal war is finally over. Ripple Labs, a fintech giant, has just closed the book on its nearly five-year battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, ending a fight that had become a proxy for the future of cryptocurrency regulation in America. The surprise settlement is being

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Loans

Wisconsin student loan borrowers facing changes under Trump

Sen. Ron Johnson comments on President Donald Trump’s tax policy bill Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, comments on President Donald Trump’s tax policy bill during a Milwaukee Press Club luncheon in Milwaukee. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill signed into law July 4, is bringing changes to the federal

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Investment

Kennedy cancels $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts | STAT

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on Signal at hbranswell.01. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that the government’s emergency preparedness agency will no longer fund work on messenger RNA vaccines, delivering

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Crypto

Crypto’s Wild West Era Is Over

For more than a decade, cryptocurrency lived in a regulatory gray zone. Loved by libertarians, feared by bankers, and mocked by lawmakers, it was treated like a side project of the internet, too weird to regulate and too volatile to embrace. That era just ended. The U.S. House of Representatives has officially passed the GENIUS

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Crypto

The crypto industry got what it paid for

The crypto industry is beginning to see a return on one of its most prescient investments: Donald Trump. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed three bills that industry supporters believe will bring more legitimacy and predictability to the digital currency space — and that critics warn could enrich the president’s own family and hand

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Crypto

Even crypto execs fall for crypto scams

It’s not every day you hear of cryptocurrency executives falling for crypto scams, but here we are. A complaint filed by the Department of Justice appears to reveal that a pair of MoonPay executives lost $250,000 worth of Ethereum when donating to what they thought was President Donald Trump’s inauguration, as first reported by NOTUS.

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Loans

The One Big Beautiful Bill is about to make student loans worse

University tuition in the United States is notoriously expensive — so much so that Americans currently have over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. But now, the routine process of taking out student loans has been overhauled as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law last week.

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Funds

After vetoes, Gov. DeSantis signs $115B state budget in Florida

One day before the start of the fiscal year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a roughly $115 billion budget into law, after vetoing nearly $600 million in spending. The spending plan is about $3 billion less than the current year, and comes after a protracted negotiation between the House and Senate over tax cuts that delayed

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