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Circle, the stablecoin giant behind USDC, has secured approval for a U.S. trust bank charter — a significant step in crypto's slow but steady integration into the regulated financial system. It signals that major digital asset firms are no longer content operating at the edges of banking. They want inside.
On a far less orderly note, a convicted money launderer currently serving time for a five million dollar fraud scheme has been charged with moving two hundred ninety thousand dollars in cryptocurrency that a federal court had ordered him to forfeit — all from behind bars. It's a reminder that crypto's borderless nature doesn't disappear at the prison gate.
And in Europe, a deeply contested surveillance measure known as Chat Control one point zero has quietly advanced through the EU Parliament, not through a clear majority vote, but through a procedural maneuver that forced a re-vote on the eve of a parliamentary recess. The law would allow warrantless mass scanning of private digital communications, and critics say the way it passed is nearly as troubling as what it permits.
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