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BREAKING: SEC Proposes Crypto Fundraising Exemptions in Abrupt About-Face

Last week the SEC scrapped the meeting where it was going to unveil its crypto rulebook.

This week it put the rulebook out anyway.

On Tuesday the agency proposed Regulation Crypto, its first real rulebook for selling digital assets in the US.

The heart of it is a fundraising exemption.

A crypto project could raise up to $5 million over four years, or as much as $75 million in a single year, without registering the offering with the SEC.

Disclosures are still required, and the anti-fraud rules still apply.

There's a safe harbour for the token itself, too.

A coin first sold as part of an investment deal, which is what makes regulators treat it as a security, can shed that label once the project is built and no longer leans on a central team to run it.

This is the fork we've tracked since July, and the reversible side of it just got real.

An SEC rule is the fast route to a rulebook, but a later commission can undo it without a single vote in Congress.

The CLARITY Act is the slow route, a statute that stays put, and it's still short of the ten Democrats it needs when the Senate comes back in September.

Days ago the White House was reportedly leaning on the agency to hold this back, worried it would hand wavering senators a reason to say the permanent bill isn't needed.

The SEC went ahead regardless.

What landed is only a proposal, open for 60 days of comment and months from final.

That's the slowest way to say yes, and it keeps CLARITY's door open while the SEC's own rule starts moving anyway.

Crypto's US rulebook is finally getting written. 🚀

For the first time in history, the U.S. government forced a leading AI company to pull its most powerful model offline. No court. No warning. One letter on a Friday afternoon, and the most advanced AI on Earth went dark within hours.

It happened in a single weekend. And it happened just as the most hyped AI IPO wave of the decade was taking shape.

That timing is not a coincidence worth ignoring. When Washington can switch off a frontier model overnight, it changes who wins, who loses, and what every one of these filings is really worth.

Most investors will chase the hype and find out the hard way. Our free briefing breaks down what the shutdown signals and the risk buried in the filings — before pricing is announced, not after.

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Will Clemente is watching two things line up on Bitcoin that rarely sit together for long.

Clemente is a co-founder of Reflexivity Research and one of the most followed on-chain analysts in crypto.

Here's what he posted:

Break down why that combination matters.

Open interest is the total size of outstanding futures positions. It's climbing fast, that vertical spike at the right edge of his chart. More leverage, more positioning, more fuel loaded into the system.

Implied volatility is the market's expectation of movement. It's sitting at multi-year lows. The market is pricing calm, almost asleep.

Put them together and you get a coiled spring. Maximum positioning, minimum expected movement.

Everyone leaned in, nobody braced. Historically that tension doesn't bleed off slowly. It snaps.

The direction isn't written on the chart. But the magnitude usually is, and a compression this tight tends to release hard.

Loaded, quiet, and about to move. 🪤

Today we're looking at BTC Risk - a simple way to gauge where we are in the cycle.

BTC Risk compresses years of price action into a number between 0 and 1:

It doesn't call exact tops or bottoms. It shows you when risk-reward is tilted in your favour.

Current BTC Risk: 0.374 (two weeks ago: 0.300)

Off the floor, and quickly.

BTC Risk jumped from 0.300 to 0.374 this fortnight, a 0.074 move that unwinds most of the earlier fall.

It had tumbled from 0.392 to 0.300 and based there for a couple of reads, and this print reclaims most of that ground in one go.

At 0.374 the metric still sits below the 0.5 midpoint, so the discount hasn't gone, though it's a good deal shallower than two weeks ago.

The cheap window that rewarded patient buyers is closing, and risk is climbing back toward neutral.

The bargain the floor offered is already fading. 📊

Bitcoin Wallet Maker BitBox Says AI Found Severe Flaws in Firmware. The Swiss hardware-wallet maker found two severe bugs with frontier AI models and warns that older firmware remains exposed.

U.S. accounting-standards group proposes way to see stablecoins as ‘cash equivalent’. The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed treating qualifying stablecoins as cash-like.

FalconX, Interstice Connect Canton to Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain. The non-custodial engine links Canton’s institutional tokenized-asset markets with liquidity across major public chains.

Bitcoin correction may be nearing an end with 8 of 12 capitulation signals flashing, VanEck says. Long-term holders shed roughly 356,000 BTC over the past month, pushing their share of supply below 60%.

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