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0.50%

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0.05%

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0.93%

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-0.15%

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1.19%

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0.92%

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-0.10%

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-1.54%

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-0.97%

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-1.12%

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0.38%

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0.28%

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1.17%

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0.80%

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8.74%

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1.99%

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1.12%

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1.66%

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0.28%

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1.06%

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1.13%

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-0.32%

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Price data by
Sander Lutz

Sander Lutz

Sander is a senior writer at Decrypt reporting on crypto policy from the White House. He covers crypto's impact on politics, law, and culture. Sander graduated from UC Berkeley and holds a masters in history from Cambridge. Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Sander Lutz

  • President Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Senator Slams Trump’s World Liberty Financial Over 'Seriously Inadequate' Response to Inquiry

    Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) skewered the Trump family’s crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, on Friday—for what he called its “seriously inadequate” response to a Senate inquiry into the company’s business practices.  “This seriously inadequate response conveniently avoids the fact that foreign governments and others can enrich and compromise the President through World Liberty Financial,” Blumenthal said Friday in a statement shared with Decrypt, referencing a letter sent to him by the comp...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US capitol building in D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Senate Stablecoin Bill Makes Progress With New Draft—Here's What's In It

    Amidst the nail-biter, week-long drama over whether the Senate’s GENIUS Act is really dead or not, progress appears to have been made Thursday—with pro-crypto Democrats now touting concessions they’ve received from Republican colleagues in a new draft of the bill, which could see a vote by early next week. Decrypt obtained a copy and reviewed this negotiated draft of the Senate’s stablecoin legislation. The bill indeed contains new language on issues such as national security protections, ethics...

    NewsLaw and Order
    6 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    CFTC Commissioner Mersinger Tapped to Lead Top Crypto Lobbying Organization

    The Blockchain Association, one of the crypto lobby’s most prominent players, announced its new CEO Wednesday: outgoing CFTC commissioner Summer Mersinger.  In order to take the vacant position, Mersinger will forgo most of her second term at the commodities regulator, which would have lasted until mid-2028. The attorney, a Republican, was first nominated to a GOP vacancy on the Commission by former president Joe Biden in 2021. In her tenure, Mersinger has vocally backed the crypto industry and...

    NewsBusiness
    5 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US Capitol building in DC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Is the Senate Stablecoin Bill Dead? Here's What's Going On

    It was supposed to be a slam dunk. The American crypto industry, flush with more political capital than it has ever had (and perhaps will ever have), was to get its long-awaited “regulatory clarity” on stablecoins last week. And yet the Senate failed to pass a key procedural vote on the marquee stablecoin legislation. As the bill, dubbed the GENIUS Act, languishes in legislative purgatory, should it be considered functionally dead—or might there be hope yet for its passage?  It depends who you a...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Headquarters Image: Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock

    SEC’s Crypto Embrace Seems Like 'Government Picking Winners and Losers', Says Crenshaw

    As the SEC barrels forward with its pro-crypto agenda under the second Donald Trump administration, the agency’s sole remaining Democratic commissioner has begun openly questioning whether the sector is now being actively promoted by the Commission to a disproportionate extent. During the regulator’s fourth crypto-focused roundtable since March, which today focused on moving traditional Wall Street securities onto blockchain networks, SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw interrogated whether the p...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • U.S. Capitol. Source: Shutterstock

    Stablecoin Legislation Suffers Severe Blow as GENIUS Act Fails to Pass Key Senate Vote

    The Senate’s GENIUS Act failed to pass a key procedural vote on Thursday, a stunning blow to the stablecoin bill’s chance of passage that may have further negative consequences for other crypto legislation pending on Capitol Hill. Several pro-crypto Democrats voted against cloture on the bill, meaning they did not support formally ending debate on the legislation and advancing it towards a full vote. Democrats who voted against cloture today, who previously supported the GENIUS Act, include Rube...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2013. Photo: Stephen Melkisethian on Flickr

    Senate Nears Deal on Stablecoin Bill as Lawmakers Race Against the Clock

    After several days of high-stakes crypto drama on Capitol Hill, a clique of holdout Senate Democrats appears to be nearing a deal to support stablecoin legislation—though the matter is far from settled.  On Wednesday, a small group of pro-crypto Democratic senators including Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) met with Republican counterparts to discuss terms that would win back their support of the GENIUS Act, which would establish a framework for offering sta...

    NewsLaw and Order
    5 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). Image: Shutterstock

    House Democrats Walk Out on Digital Assets Hearing Over ‘Trump’s Crypto Corruption’

    House Democrats staged a walkout of a digital assets-focused hearing on Tuesday, with party leadership threatening that President Donald Trump’s personal crypto ventures could derail bipartisan support of pending crypto legislation.  House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-CA) led the charge, objecting at the outset to the hearing’s convening. A dramatic scene then ensued, with Democrats including Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) yelling out a list of crypto-related profits t...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Headquarters Image: Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock

    New House Market Structure Bill Would End SEC Oversight of Crypto's Top Coins

    The House Financial Services Committee released a new discussion draft of its crypto market structure legislation on Monday—and the current version of the bill would amend American securities laws to exempt most top digital assets from the SEC’s oversight.  The latest bill draft would add key language to numerous foundational securities laws, including the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that would formally exclude “digital commodities” from the definition of security...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • UK Regulator Proposes Ban on Buying Crypto With Credit Cards

    Britain’s top financial regulator has proposed banning the purchase of cryptocurrency with any sort of borrowed funds, including credit cards.  A new discussion paper from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority floated a plan this week to outlaw crypto firms from allowing British customers to buy crypto assets with a credit card. The proposed rule would also ban the purchase of crypto with any other form of credit, including loans and digital currency credit lines. The move appears largely driven...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • Tether Reports Q1 Profit Above $1 Billion, Down From 2024 Amid Bitcoin Yield Decline

    Stablecoin giant Tether reported a profit in excess of $1 billion in the first quarter of 2025—a figure that, while substantial, marks a significant downturn from reported profits from Q1 2024. In an attestation released Thursday, the company said it made just north of a billion dollars in profit in the first quarter this year, largely thanks to yields generated by the massive quantity of U.S. Treasuries it holds in reserve. A specific profit figure was not provided in the press release or attac...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Source: Courtesy of James Howells

    Story of Man Who Lost $750 Million Worth of Bitcoin in Landfill Headed to Hollywood

    The story of a Wales man who believes he accidentally threw away $750 million worth of Bitcoin is now poised to get the Hollywood treatment.  On Wednesday, a new Los Angeles-based production company, Lebul, announced that it secured the exclusive rights to tell the story of James Howells, an IT engineer who mined 8,000 BTC back in 2009—when the tokens were effectively worthless—and then lost them all.  Howells maintains that a former lover threw away a hard drive containing the tokens back in 20...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Chair Paul Atkins. Image: Senate Banking Committee

    SEC Chair Paul Atkins Slams Gensler Regime for 'Stifling' Crypto Innovation

    Newly sworn-in SEC Chair Paul Atkins gave his first full address Friday, praising the Commission’s recent pro-crypto work in his absence, and condemning the agency’s previous moves against the industry under previous Chair Gary Gensler and the Joe Biden administration.  “Market participants engaging with this technology deserve clear regulatory rules of the road,” Atkins said of crypto, from the agency’s Washington headquarters. “Innovation has unfortunately been stifled for the last several yea...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States. Image: Shutterstock

    Federal Reserve Withdraws Crypto Rules for Banks, Ending 'Choke Point' Practices

    The Federal Reserve said Thursday evening it will no longer obligate member banks to provide advanced notice of crypto and stablecoin-related ventures, and will instead monitor engagement with digital assets like it would any other banking activities.  The announcement comes weeks after parallel moves by the FDIC and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, two other key federal banking regulators. Those agencies similarly clarified that banks are legally permitted to engage in crypto-related...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Capitol Hilll, Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock.

    Why America’s Biggest Crypto Company Is Trying to Stop a Pro-Crypto Bill From Passing

    Coinbase and a handful of allies are actively lobbying Congress to prevent stablecoin legislation from passing in a standalone bill, a strategic move that is causing friction in the tight-knit world of crypto policy as one such bill nears a floor vote in the Senate, sources familiar with the matter told Decrypt.  Coinbase, however, disputes that it is standing in the way of stablecoin legislation and maintains that it is fully supportive of the bill as drafted, a spokesperson said, suggesting th...

    NewsLaw and Order
    7 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SafeMoon. Image: Shutterstock

    Remember Safemoon? Feds Aren’t Forgetting About It, Despite DOJ Crypto Policy Shift

    The Department of Justice told a federal judge it plans to proceed with a securities fraud case against the founders of cryptocurrency Safemoon, despite an agency memo circulated earlier this month instructing federal prosecutors to avoid pursuing cases that would involve determining the securities status of crypto assets.  In a letter sent Friday to the Brooklyn federal judge overseeing the case, DOJ attorneys said they had conducted an “internal review” of whether the department’s new crypto p...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • President Donald Trump. Photo: Shutterstock

    What Trump Firing Fed Chair Would Mean for Bitcoin—And the US Economy

    Should President Donald Trump make good on apparent threats to fire Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, analysts tell Decrypt that the extraordinary move would likely throw the American political system into turmoil. But could it also be bullish for Bitcoin?  On Thursday, Trump, who has unsuccessfully lobbied Powell to lower interest rates for weeks, said the Fed chair’s termination “cannot come fast enough.” While presidents often come into conflict with the Fed, which dictates U.S. monetary p...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • China is a big player in the Bitcoin market. Image: Shutterstock

    China Is Fueling Crypto Crime, From North Korea to Mexican Cartels: TRM

    What do North Korean hackers, Mexican drug cartels, Russian mobsters, and scammers impersonating your boss on Telegram have in common? They all depend on the Chinese black market to launder their billions in crypto, according to new research. Despite crypto’s reputation as an uncensorable, borderless financial underworld, most major criminal groups utilizing digital assets wouldn’t be able to do so without the aid of sophisticated underground Chinese banking networks, according to blockchain int...

    NewsLaw and Order
    5 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • A statue outside a Manhattan courthouse. Photo: André Beganski/Decrypt

    Crypto Bros Argue Trump Policy Shift Means $25M Fraud Case Should Be Tossed

    Two brothers charged with stealing $25 million worth of Ethereum launched a novel legal defense in federal court this week: Their case must be dismissed immediately, so they say, because new DOJ crypto policies imply the property they’re accused of stealing can’t really be considered property in the first place. Last spring, the DOJ accused Anton and James Pepaire-Bueno, two MIT-educated coding whizzes, of exploiting the process by which the Ethereum network validates transactions to steal milli...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • President Donald Trump. Photo: Shutterstock

    Trump Meme Coin Team Withdraws $4.6M to Coinbase Ahead of $309M Token Unlock

    A wallet used by the creators of President Donald Trump’s Solana meme coin made its first-ever withdrawals on Tuesday, sending $4.6 million worth of the project’s liquidity to a Coinbase Prime account.  The move comes just days ahead of the project’s first major token unlock, which is set for Thursday. Upon the three-month anniversary of the coin’s surprise launch on the eve of the president's inauguration, 40 million TRUMP tokens are scheduled to be released into circulation.  At writing, that...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
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