Compliance frameworks — AML, KYC, market structure, licensing regimes, and custody rules.
The world's largest exchange is still pursuing a MiCA licence elsewhere in the EU, but says uneven authorisation timelines are pushing users, firms and tax base elsewhere.
The regulator's substance-over-label test reaches Polymarket and Kalshi as the two venues draw institutional capital and M&A attention, and forces any EU distributor to clear the MiFID II bar.
Industry voices call the framework a competitive counterweight to the EU's MiCA, yet the FCA's track record of rejecting most applications and several open policy questions may blunt the edge before…
When the continent's biggest neobank cuts a stablecoin, the question is whether MiCA-driven compliance pressure is now filtering down from crypto-native venues into mainstream consumer apps.
Only Meta discloses both the direct water its AI data centers draw and the indirect water the power grid pumps in to feed them, leaving Microsoft, Google and Amazon with thinner numbers investors and…
The disclosure made $TRUMP income real, not theoretical, and Gillibrand's bill is the first formal ethics hook targeting memecoin-linked officeholders.
The first register update after the EU transitional period lifts the authorized CASP count to 280, with Standard Chartered, FalconX, and Sygnum Europe all newly cleared to operate across the bloc.
The headline vote reads upbeat, yet Paxos's 2024 run at the same model landed at ~$3B in supply against USDC's $73B. The partner list, not the policy, is where this story actually lives.
Public disclosure named them as members of Open Standard's won-pegged stablecoin project before any formal talks took place, two of Korea's largest names told local media.
The week's roundup bundles nine macro crypto signals, from Strategy's treasury pivot and a UK rule finalization to Visa and BlackRock backing a new stablecoin and $189M of mid-term lobbying.
37 new CASPs cleared ESMA's MiCA register in the first update after the December deadline, pushing total authorisations to 280 and giving one of Europe's biggest banks a regulatory foothold.
The $3M Kalshi market tied to a song's chart position became the mechanism, and Spotify is now cutting off the prediction platforms that referenced its data.
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives backs the bill's stablecoin framework and digital asset compliance structure, adding institutional weight to a fight that has hinged on a…
The fund itself is the bigger story: 861K ETH under management, 67% actively staked, and a 2.88% gross yield against a 0.15% fee that competing issuers cannot yet match without regulatory clarity on…
The one-year rulemaking clock triggers the full compliance stack under the law, and at roughly $15M a year for audits, legal, and AML, the bill crushes a $200M issuer while barely denting a $10B one.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application days before the July 1 deadline, and ESMA privately pushed national regulators to reject the exchange's other EU filings over financial-crime compliance…
Analysts want Strategy to hold 24 to 36 months of dividend coverage in cash, up from 17 months today, framing the firm's BTC treasury model as a source of two-way market risk.
The Philippines becomes one of the first Southeast Asian markets to formally license the world's largest exchange, opening a regulated on-ramp for a retail-heavy crypto population long served by…
CACEIS would inherit a MiCA CASP license, 150,000 users, and roughly €350M in AUM, the first time one of France's systemic banks has bought a domestic crypto retail venue outright.
A near-doubling in seven months, anchored by an OCC national bank charter and a defense-tech founder with Pentagon ties, signals that the crypto-banking thesis is graduating from sandbox to balance…
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