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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent letters to Howard Lutnick and Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino asking about a loan Tether reportedly made to Lutnick's family.
Senators Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and Ron Wyden, who is the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, asked the leading global issuer of stablecoins whether it helped finance Lutnick's multi-billion-dollar transfer of the financial-services company through trusts tied to his adult children when Lutnick complied with government ethics requirements after taking the Cabinet position.
If reports of this loan are accurate, it would raise serious questions about the relationship between Secretary Lutnick and Tether, and the influence of Tether on Mr. Lutnick’s policy decisions," the lawmakers wrote in both letters, which responded to reporting about the loans of unspecified amounts that first appeared in Bloomberg News.
Congress, with help from the administration of President Donald Trump, helped usher in a new law last year to govern stablecoin issuers, including Tether. CEO Ardoino was a front-row guest at a White House signing of that law, known as the GENIUS Act. Lutnick was also present for the celebration and has been a member of the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets that's outlined and driven U.S. crypto policy.
"It is critical that you make decisions because they are in the best interest of the American public, not in the financial interest of your family or Tether," the senators wrote to Lutnick
Representatives for the Department of Commerce and Tether didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the letters
Lutnick's Cantor is now under the watch of sons Brandon Lutnick, chairman & CEO, and Kyle Lutnick, executive vice chairman.
Tether, with a headquarters in El Salvador, has been pursuing a U.S. strategy, with the launch of its USAT stablecoin and a U.S. arm of the company that's led by Bo Hines, a former crypto adviser for Trump.
Cantor is so far the biggest donor to the Fellowship PAC, a relatively new political action committee that's so far spent a few million dollars supporting Republicans in various Senate, House and governor races. The expenditures from Fellowship, which is led by a Tether U.S. executive, have been through a media firm whose co-founders include Hines and his father.
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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jordan Brewer writes on the missing piece in token markets: institutional-grade investor relations. Then, Martin Burgherr breaks down how crypto markets are maturing, becoming more efficient and lower risk for institutions.
In early March, just three months after a Solana Breakpoint mainstage appearance by Ranger Finance co-founder Fathur Rahman, and two months post-ICO, tokenholders forced the liquidation of the protocol’s treasury. How does a 14x oversubscribed ICO unravel so quickly? The answer: poor investor relations.
Institutional-grade investor relations remains the missing piece in token markets. Crypto has spent years in a venture-style framework, but protocols now seek public market investors to provide more durable capital. A key part of investor relations is a regular investor call where management walks through forward guidance — teams at Maple Finance and EtherFi are leading here. These calls are solid, but this is just the start, and the stakes are high. Done well, token valuations are rewarded; done poorly, the downside is steep.
Research shows the value of forward guidance isn't just in providing it, it's in its accuracy. Bartov, Givoly, and Hayn (2002) found that firms that consistently meet or beat their own guidance enjoy a measurable stock price premium over firms that don’t. This premium compounds for "habitual beaters," meaning the market increasingly trusts and rewards management teams that repeatedly deliver. Additionally, beating guidance is a leading indicator of future stock performance, regardless of whether the beat was genuine or a result of earnings or expectations management. Skinner and Sloan (2002) also demonstrated the inverse: growth stocks that disappoint on earnings expectations experience an asymmetrically large negative price response, far exceeding the upside reward of a positive surprise. Guidance accuracy is a proxy for management credibility, and credibility is a direct input to valuation multiples.
Crypto is beginning to produce its own version of this dynamic. In December 2024, when Maple’s AUM was $460 million and their ARR was $4 million, Maple set guidance of $4 billion in AUM and $25 million in ARR for 2025 and later raised guidance to $5 billion in AUM and $30 million in ARR. Maple delivered, hitting $5 billion in AUM and $28 million in 30 day annualized revenue in October (see table below). That's a guide-and-deliver cadence that any public market investor would recognize and reward. From December 2024 to June 2025, the SYRUP token price rose from $0.10 to a high of $0.60, outperforming competitors like AAVE by 475%.
EtherFi is a good example of this dynamic. On their March 2026 tokenholder call, the team projected a 55% reduction in customer acquisition cost while raising their advertising budget 420% throughout 2026, which would imply 11x year over year customer growth. That's the kind of specific guidance that gives investors something concrete to hold them to.
However, guidance without delivery is just marketing. Investor relations in crypto doesn’t end with a dashboard, that’s where it starts. Guidance and accountability are at the heart of credibility for protocol teams, and it is credibility that builds conviction in public investors.
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Canada's Liberal government calls machines a “primary method” for scams as data and law enforcement link them to rising losses
To protect Canadians by shutting down a primary method for scammers to defraud victims, and for criminals to place their cash proceeds of crime," the government said, it plans to prohibit the machines entirely.
A crypto ATM (automated teller machine) may sound similar to a traditional cash machine that dispenses money from your bank account, but it works very differently. Instead of withdrawing cash, these machines let users convert physical cash into cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which can then be sent to a digital wallet anywhere in the world, while bypassing traditional banking channels. That’s where the money-laundering risk comes in.
The proposal follows mounting concerns from law enforcement and regulators that crypto ATMs have become central to fraud schemes.
A 2023 internal analysis by Canada's financial intelligence agency, FINTRAC, found that bitcoin ATMs are likely to remain "the primary method" fraudsters use to collect and launder funds from victims.
Canadian lawmakers are debating banning crypto as a payment method for electoral donations, citing concerns about the anonymity of fund transfers.
Canada was home to the first bitcoin ATM, installed in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop in 2013.
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No gráfico de 1D do SHIB/USDT, o preço está em 0,000000627 (-2,79% em 24h), testando a região próxima ao mínimo de 0,000000600 após rejeição no topo de 0,000000662.
Estrutura de mercado: desde o fundo em 0,000000523, o ativo vem oscilando em um range muito estreito. As médias móveis estão praticamente coladas (MA(7), MA(25) e MA(99) todas próximas a 0,000000618), indicando baixa volatilidade e ausência de tendência direcional clara. O volume apresenta picos isolados sem força consistente de acumulação ou distribuição.
Tendência atual: neutra (indefinição/lateralização) em range apertado.
Para as próximas 24h: neutra, com leve viés de recuperação apenas se o suporte em 0,000000600 for defendido com candles verdes.
Não há ponto de entrada seguro no momento — o range é estreito demais para oferecer bom risco/retorno e o risco de whipsaw é elevado. Aguarde rompimento claro acima de 0,000000649 com volume para considerar posição compradora, ou perda do suporte para possível continuação baixista.
Suporte chave: 0,000000600
Resistência chave: 0,000000649 / 0,000000662
Em memecoins como SHIB, paciência e confirmação de volume são essenciais antes de qualquer operação.
Qual sua leitura para o SHIB nesse range?
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