🇺🇸 Senator Lummis: U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Fund “Could Start Anytime”
Senator Cynthia Lummis said funding for the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) could begin at any moment, suggesting the U.S. Treasury may already have the authority — or political backing — to move forward even without formal congressional approval.
💰 The reserve was created under an executive order signed by President Trump in March, with 200,000 BTC (~$17 billion) transferred to the Treasury as its initial foundation.
Notably, the plan is budget-neutral, relying on seized assets rather than taxpayer money.
📄 The 2026 budget bill directs the Treasury to conduct a 90-day study on custody, cybersecurity, and accounting for the Bitcoin Reserve — while also banning the use of federal funds to develop a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
⚡️ A major milestone for Bitcoin — and potentially the start of a new era of BTC-backed national reserves in the United States.$BTC
📊 S&P officially merges stocks & crypto into a single index!
S&P Dow Jones has launched the S&P Digital Markets 50 — the first-ever index combining 15 leading cryptocurrencies and 35 publicly listed companies tied to blockchain and digital assets.
This marks a major milestone — the first time S&P blends traditional finance with crypto.
🔹 Selection Criteria: Stocks: market cap > $100M Cryptos: market cap > $300M No single asset > 5% weighting Rebalanced quarterly, just like other S&P indices.
💡 Built in partnership with Dinari, the index aims to give investors a systematic way to track the growth of digital asset markets — reflecting how crypto is increasingly integrating into global finance.
🚀 Dinari also plans to launch a tokenized version of this index on the dShares platform later this year, allowing investors to trade it directly on-chain.
🌉 Seen as a true bridge between TradFi and DeFi, this index lets investors monitor the performance of both worlds — all in one place.