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Bitcoin ETFs are on a five-day inflow streak, the first run like this since April, pulling in roughly seven hundred twenty-seven million dollars in total. That makes it the most sustained stretch of buying since the record outflows we saw back in June, a sign that institutional appetite may be quietly returning.
Across the Atlantic, the UK Parliament has opened a formal inquiry into what the crypto industry calls a banking chokepoint. The Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group is examining cases where banks refused accounts to crypto firms or placed restrictions on their transactions. It is a friction point that has frustrated the sector for years, and now it has lawmakers' attention.
And here in the US, the FCC is moving to ban companies suspected of rebranding and reselling DJI drone products under their own names. DJI has faced national security scrutiny for some time, and this action suggests regulators are closing a loophole that allowed the technology to effectively stay on American shelves through third-party labels.
Three stories, one thread — money, regulation, and the question of who gets to participate in the systems being built. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
