🚫❄️ No court order, no freeze

Circle's CEO won't freeze USDC without a court order — even as $420M+ in hacked funds escape — plus the Senate is back from recess and Witt says the CLARITY Act talks are clearing other sticking points. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Monday, April 13, 2026 Circle CEO says he won't freeze USDC without a court order, even as hackers walk away with millions Speaking in Seoul, Jeremy Allaire gave his clearest defense yet of Circle's hands-off approach: USDC is a regulated financial product, and freeze decisions must follow court orders or law enforcement requests — not public pressure during an exploit. Critics, including blockchain sleuth ZachXBT, say the policy has allowed over $420 million in illicit funds to escape since 2022, pointing to the recent $285M Drift Protocol hack in which stolen USDC was bridged across chains over six hours while Circle waited for legal authorization. Rival Tether, by contrast, has blacklisted stolen funds within hours in similar situations. Read the full story → Exchange Research · Sponsored by Gate Spot trading volumes drop to the lowest level since September 2024 Combined spot and derivatives trading on centralized exchanges fell 6.53% in March to $5.26T — the lowest level since October 2024 — as geopolitical tensions drove capital toward commodities. Gold ranked as the fifth-largest futures asset with $55.6B traded. Gate made history, overtaking Bybit to claim third place in centralized derivatives for the first time, reaching a 12.0% market share despite a volume decline. Read more → Policy White House's top crypto adviser Witt says talks clearing other points on CLARITY Act The Senate returns from recess today with the CLARITY Act back on the agenda and a late-April Banking Committee markup in the crosshairs. Patrick Witt, speaking at the Solana Summit in New York, said stablecoin yield negotiations are making progress and that talks are now clearing the bill's remaining sticking points. Senator Hagerty has said he expects the bill out of committee this month — but the window is narrow, and failure to advance before May could push digital asset legislation past the midterms. Read more → Consensus by CoinDesk Join CoinDesk at Consensus Miami, where agentic commerce, crypto at scale, and institutional integration are redefining the future of finance. Save 20% with the code HEADLINES Get your pass → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.

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🚨 WLFI called it "FUD." The market called it -12%.

WLFI's token crashed 12% to an all-time low after the Trump-linked project defended borrowing $75M against its own governance tokens on a protocol its adviser co-founded — plus quantum-safe bitcoin without a soft fork, and stablecoin volumes projected to hit $719 trillion by 2035. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Friday, April 10, 2026 Trump-backed WLFI token drops 12% to record lows after team defends multi-million lending position WLFI hit its lowest price since its 2025 launch after the Trump-linked project publicly defended using 5 billion of its own governance tokens as collateral to borrow $75M in stablecoins on Dolomite — a protocol co-founded by a WLFI adviser. The team called liquidation fears "FUD" and framed itself as an "anchor borrower" generating yield for others, but the rebuttal only deepened the selloff. WLFI's $65M in treasury buybacks are now roughly 48% underwater, and another 3 billion tokens sit in an intermediary wallet with no disclosed destination. Read the full story → Markets Quantum-safe bitcoin now possible without a soft fork, but costs $200 a pop A StarkWare researcher has published the first scheme to make bitcoin transactions quantum-resistant on the live network today — no protocol change, no miner signaling, no activation timeline required. The catch: each transaction costs up to $200 in off-chain GPU computation and can't travel through the normal network or the Lightning Network. Designed as a last-resort emergency measure, it contrasts with BIP-360, the long-term soft fork proposal that has no implementation timeline and could take years to activate. Read more → Business Stablecoin volumes to reach $719T by 2035 as generational wealth shift speeds up crypto adoption A new Chainalysis report projects adjusted stablecoin transaction volumes will hit $719 trillion by 2035 through organic growth alone — up from $28 trillion in 2025. Two macro catalysts could push that figure toward $1.5 quadrillion: the transfer of an estimated $100 trillion from Baby Boomers to crypto-native Millennials and Gen Z, and deepening point-of-sale integration that could make stablecoin payments as frictionless as a card swipe. Read more → Consensus by CoinDesk Join CoinDesk at Consensus Miami, where agentic commerce, crypto at scale, and institutional integration are redefining the future of finance. Save 20% with the code HEADLINES Get your pass → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.