AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoUS Crypto Politics & Conflicts: A UAE national security adviser is reported to hold a 49% stake tied to Trump’s planned World Liberty Financial crypto bank, renewing scrutiny after conditional OCC approval for a dollar-backed stablecoin trust bank. Regulation Watch: Pakistan says it built a full virtual-asset framework in under six months with a small spend (about 8% of budget), covering exchanges, custody, brokerage, lending and compliance. Macro Meets Crypto: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole message on sticky inflation rattled markets and fed rate-hike fears, with Bitcoin slipping back under $80K. Market Pulse: A historic short squeeze helped drive roughly $9.7B in crypto liquidations over two weeks, while XRP traders eye key support/resistance after a sharp August run. Institutional Access: BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF scale keeps growing, with iShares IBIT net assets topping $60B as regulated exposure expands. Scam & Enforcement: The CFTC fined a former White House teleprompter aide $172K for prediction-market insider trading, and US courts sentenced a Nigerian man to nearly 8 years for laundering $3.1M in fraud proceeds.
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