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Key takeaway: The FDIC and Louisiana’s Office of Financial Institutions pursued a wide-ranging consent order against First Guaranty, even after the bank demonstrated significant progress reducing its levels of nonperforming and criticized loans. Forward look: A branch sale completed last week should boost the bank’s capital, moving it closer to complying with a major requirement of the consent order. Supporting data: First Guaranty earned $6.2 million through the first six months of 2026.First Guaranty Bank has been contending with credit-quality problems for some time, and now its regulators have devised an unusual way to address the issue: The Hammond, Louisiana, lender will…

Key TakeawaysTD Cowen puts the CLARITY Act’s odds of enactment at just 25%.Ethics and anti-money laundering disputes could derail Senate action.Three failure scenarios could stop the bill without final passage. Why TD Cowen Sees the Bill Failing This Fall The crypto industry’s market-structure push is now a long shot, according to an Aug. 10 policy note from TD Cowen Washington Research Group analyst Jaret Seiberg provided to Bitcoin.com News. The firm puts the probability of the CLARITY Act becoming law at 25%, days after Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) filed cloture on the motion to proceed Aug. 8. The…

In brief Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum has elevated quantum security and privacy since its 2023 roadmap. Ethereum researchers are increasingly relying on STARKs and AI-assisted formal verification. The roadmap also includes native rollups and explores a future beyond the EVM. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted security have become greater priorities for Ethereum since he published his 2023 roadmap.In a post on X on Monday, Buterin said he updated his 2023 roadmap to compare its original goals with Ethereum’s current “Strawmap”—a working outline of the network’s long-term technical priorities.“What’s most striking, however, is that some completely…

Grayscale has formalized a mandatory minimum cadence for converting staking rewards from three crypto exchange-traded products into cash and paying the net proceeds to shareholders.Trust amendments executed Aug. 6 for the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE), Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (GSOL) and Grayscale Avalanche Staking ETF (GAVA) require each product to reduce “Staking Consideration” to cash no less often than quarterly. Net proceeds must then be distributed promptly after applicable fees and trust expenses.The three trusts currently intend to make distributions monthly, according to Form 8-K filings submitted Aug. 7, but the binding floor is quarterly.As the trusts receive staking…

Trump Media and Technology Group’s (DJT) bitcoin holdings shrank during the second quarter of the year as falling crypto prices saddled the Truth Social parent with $360.6 million in losses in the first half of the year.The company held 9,477.16 bitcoin BTC$63.944,00 with a fair value of $557.1 million as of June 30, according to its quarterly filing Monday. That’s down from 9,542.16 BTC at the end of March, translating to a 65 BTC decline in holdings through the quarter.Trump Media’s Crypto.com-linked cronos CRO$0.04678 holdings remained unchanged at roughly 756.1 million tokens, but their fair value fell to $40.6 million…

Lawrence Jengar Aug 10, 2026 09:55 LDO is trading at $0.29 — pinned below every major moving average and hugging the lower Bollinger Band while retail piles 61.5% short. Aggressive buy-side flow is running 2:1 over sellers, creating… LDO’s Technical Reality Check When a token is trading below its 7-day, 20-day, 50-day, and 200-day simple moving averages simultaneously, you don’t need a PhD to read the tape — the trend is bearish and has been for a while. LDO at $0.29 is stacked under every meaningful moving average reference, with the SMA20 at…

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Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack crossed the wires on Monday and was hawkish, noting that the current rate is not “meaningfully restricting the economy” and that there is a need for some number of rate hikes.Hammack said, “I would say in general; one 25 basis point move probably doesn’t do a whole lot for the economy,” at an interview with Yahoo! Finance. She added that when talking to businesses, she is not hearing “that they’re sensing any restraint from investments in growth based on where interest rates are.”Beth Hammack stressed that the longer the Fed waits, the longer it misses…

The Euro is poised to end Monday’s session with losses of about 0.13% against the Greenback, as recent news points to a delay in talks between the US and Iran, while, from a technical perspective, EUR/USD stalled at the 100-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) near 1.1568.EUR/USD Price Forecast: Technical outlookOverall, the EUR/USD is poised to consolidate further, though it is slightly tilted to the upside after buyers reclaimed the 50-day SMA. Momentum confirms the short-term upward bias, as indicated by the Relative Strength Index (RSI).That said, the first resistance for EUR/USD is the 100-day SMA. A breach of the latter…

Le flou entourant l’issue du conflit au Moyen-Orient a provoqué une certaine crispation sur les marchés ce lundi. Les cours du pétrole ont flambé de 5 %, poussés par les inquiétudes face aux conditions divergentes formulées par les Etats-Unis et l’Iran pour débloquer le détroit d’Ormuz.Le baril de Brent de la mer du Nord, qui fait référence, a pris 4,99 % à 87,72 dollars. Son équivalent américain, le baril de West Texas Intermediate, a gagné 5,05 % à 82,13 dollars.Un accord rapide de plus en plus improbableLe président Donald Trump a déclaré lundi que les Etats-Unis allaient réclamer des « compensations » pour des attaques…