Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
Polymarket prices Burnham at 97% after Starmer steps down, but the more important read is who inherits a crypto regime already legislated through 2027 and the FCA rulebook now in consultation.
Wang's exit, the ninth senior departure in five months, is feeding a fight over whether the EF is shrinking on purpose or losing control. Dankrad Feist is publicly blaming management, not strategy.
The Foundation's reframing positions MEV as a censorship-resistance battleground, not just an arbitrage problem, while quietly migrating its own balance sheet onto ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.
The industry wants rewards taxed at sale, not creation, and it is telling House tax writers the bill as written is the version worth moving.
Three hikes in a single year would be a sharp hawkish turn from the current cutting cycle, with crypto, equities, and rate-sensitive sectors repricing for tighter policy through 2026.
Treasury's general license lets existing Iranian crude reach buyers for two months, a stopgap aimed at capping prices without easing the broader sanctions regime.
Greenspan led the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, steering the US economy through the dot-com bust, the 2001 recession, and into the housing build-up that preceded the 2008 crisis.
The Rotki founder argues diverting up to 10% of validator rewards to fund core development would entrench large stakers and crowd out smaller operators, compounding a decade of governance drift.
The U-turn scraps £20K individual and £10M corporate limits in favor of a per-coin £40B ceiling, while letting issuers park 70% of reserves in short-term gilts, a package designed to keep UK…
The Bank scraps its proposed individual holding limits and replaces them with a single per-coin issuance ceiling, clearing the runway for systemic sterling stablecoin issuers to come online from 2027.
Digital assets are trying to decouple from a heavy US data week as the BOJ's 1.0% move, a freshly restructured FOMC framework, and a $126M unlock slate compete for trader attention.
The shift from sandbox to live banking integration puts South Korea ahead of the US, which has ruled out a retail CBDC, and signals where tokenized money is heading inside regulated rails.
Section 604 writes FinCEN's 2019 guidance into statute, but the 'non-controlling' test leaves every operator with a kill switch, multisig, or upgrade key still exposed to the same theory that…
The proposal would let validators vote to redirect up to 10% of staking rewards toward ecosystem funding, but critics say it drags politics directly into consensus.
A £40B issuance ceiling per stablecoin replaces per-holder limits, and reserve rules loosen, a meaningful concession to issuers before the regime takes hold at the end of 2026.
At current staking levels a 5–10% redirect could send 50,000–70,000 ETH (~$120M) a year to ecosystem grants, and the proposal turns on a single majority signal from validators rather than a holder…
Europe's biggest banking push yet into on-chain money arrives as the euro stablecoin market sits at a fraction of the dollar's liquidity, raising the bar for a currency to become a default inside…
The National Business Corporate Pension Fund, a roughly ¥13 trillion pool, would route the slice through a passive fund run by a hedge fund, Nikkei says, marking a sovereign-tier first for Japan.
Rate hikes now outweigh rate cuts as the base case, and that keeps altcoins and $BTC pinned to the back of the risk curve until the Fed has a reason to pivot.
The exchange became the first crypto-native firm to win direct access to Federal Reserve payment rails, a precedent that resets the bar for every digital-asset bank chasing the same doorway.
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