A fight over banning a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) nearly derailed the defense bill. Learn what a CBDC is and why it ...

On a special episode (first released on May 14) of The Excerpt podcast: There’s something to cold hard cash. You can hold it; you can smell it; it feels a certain way in your pocket. Earlier this year ...

AUSTIN, Texas — If the U.S. moved forward with creating its own digital dollar, banks, as we know them, could be a thing of the past. Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden ordered the Treasury ...

A proposed GOP ban on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could pump the brakes on grand visions to reshape electronic payment access around the Federal Reserve. Republican lawmakers pushed the ban ...

Is Circle launching a digital currency bank? Circle, the fintech firm behind USDC, has filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital ...

As China accelerates deployment of its digital yuan, and the European Central Bank advances toward a digital euro, the Republican Party is seeking to prevent the creation of a Central Bank Digital ...

In 2025, China and the United States are deepening their rivalry in a new arena: digital currency infrastructure. In May, Hong Kong passed landmark legislation to regulate fiat-referenced stablecoins, ...

The latest announcement is out from Digital Currency X Technology ( ($DCX) ). On December 18, 2025, Digital Currency X Technology Inc. disclosed ...

Lawmakers are faced with a choice to block the creation of a US digital dollar due to privacy concerns, though critics argue the fight is more about politics. As US lawmakers return from their August ...

US dollar-pegged stablecoins are emerging as strategic tools that could reinforce or reshape the US dollar’s global dominance. By enabling US dollar-linked transactions outside traditional financial ...

Since I began focusing on crypto in 2016, there have been a handful of shifts in overt U.S. digital asset policy, and the significance of the most recent shift cannot be overstated. The bipartisan ...