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Incoming administration’s cheerleading, Gensler departure, opens door to smaller currencies like Polygon and Algorand, experts says.

Request enhances its capabilities to provide Fiat2Crypto onramps and Crypto2Fiat offramps for transactions of $100 to $100m.

Bill Harris, who briefly led the payments pioneer, talks about the U.S. lagging in payments innovation, and the potential of stablecoins.

A draft law on cryptocurrencies is undergoing the process of adoption in Morocco, the governor of its central bank, Abdellatif Jouahri, said on Tuesday. Cryptocurrencies have been banned in Morocco since 2017, but the public continues to use them underground, circumventing restrictions. The central bank, known as Bank Al Maghrib, "has prepared a draft law regulating crypto assets, which is currently in the adoption process," Jouahri told an international conference in Rabat.

MicroStrategy shares are a more popular bitcoin play than the cryptocurrency itself for many individual investors.

Long-term investors have sold almost 550,000 BTC, almost 4% of their holdings.Last week, one-day profit-taking touched a record high in dollar terms, more than $10.5 billion. The percentage drop from long-term holders continues to fall each cycle.

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has become one of the most valuable stocks on the Nasdaq by pursuing a simple strategy: buying Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). The stock has soared alongside Bitcoin's gains this year, which have come with the broader bull market, the launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and optimism that a new Trump administration will adopt crypto-friendly policies. As you can see from the chart below, both MicroStrategy and the cryptocurrency have surged this year.