Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
The transatlantic taskforce hands the BoE, FCA, CFTC, and SEC the job of writing the rulebook for tokenized assets, with stablecoins named as the test case.
The Atlantic partnership puts the two largest English-speaking capital markets on a coordinated track for tokenization, a step that pulls Wall Street and the City into the same rule book on rails and…
The moratorium lands as AI infrastructure demand has pushed grid operators and legislators to question whether hyperscale buildouts still deserve unconditional permitting.
The threat lands directly on Elon Musk's commercial satellite network, blurring the line between civilian internet provision and wartime infrastructure in an active conflict zone.
The bill pulls crypto fully under the Bank Secrecy Act, codifies real-time exchange-to-cop information sharing, and gives Treasury source-level authority to cut off illicit jurisdictions.
The 10-point plan from Treasury and HM Treasury doesn't bind regulators, but it does commit the SEC, CFTC, FCA and Bank of England to work together on tokenized securities, cross-border stablecoins…
The world's largest US-listed crypto exchange just lowered its identity barrier for the world's second-largest crypto market, letting residents onboard with a national ID instead of a passport plus a…
A 24-day window is unusually tight for a bill this consequential: the legislation would split SEC and CFTC jurisdiction over digital assets, ending the years-long jurisdictional tug-of-war that has…
The shift reframes a transit fee as a capital-incentive package, and ties Gulf energy corridors to US diplomatic leverage rather than tariff revenue.
A transit fee on the world's busiest oil chokepoint would be a geopolitical tariff nobody has tried at scale, and oil markets read it as risk-on inflation news within minutes.
The line matters less for today's market than for the next stress event: when liquidity tightens, the Fed is now on the record saying crypto stands outside the emergency backstop.
A 0.4% monthly fall in consumer prices, the largest since the early pandemic, drained the hawkish-Fed trade that had capped crypto for a week. Energy did the heavy lifting.
The pivot kills a short-lived tariff revenue stream in favor of bilateral investment and a naval blockade on Iranian shipping in the Gulf.
The $300B stablecoin stack has always been framed as a dollar substitute; Tether is now testing whether its reserves can also fund a non-cloud AI stack that runs on user devices.
A sub-4% CPI print is the cleanest macro setup crypto has had in months: a cooling inflation path hands the Fed room to cut, and rate-cut odds repriced within minutes of the release.
Twelve providers per euro-area national central bank is the largest live test of retail CBDC settlement to date, and it lands as the ECB pushes to finalise the digital euro rulebook by mid-2026.
Headline inflation ran a full 30bp cooler than consensus and core ran 20bp cool, reviving the rate-cut tape and knocking the dollar lower just as markets were bracing for a hawkish Fed.
Both the headline and core prints undershot consensus, giving the Fed cover to keep cutting while the disinflation glide-path stays intact.
The test roster covers banks, payment processors, and neobanks across the eurozone, hinting at how the ECB plans to distribute a retail CBDC when the pilot goes live in 2027.
The 12-month pilot covers online, offline, in-store and e-commerce flows across 19 euro-area central banks, with potential issuance targeted for 2029 if EU legislation lands.
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