Brazil's central bank bans stablecoins from cross-border payment settlement.
Brazil's central bank has moved to prohibit the use of stablecoins and other crypto assets as settlement instruments in…
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
Brazil's central bank has moved to prohibit the use of stablecoins and other crypto assets as settlement instruments in…
Major crypto industry stakeholders have thrown their weight behind a yield-related compromise in the CLARITY Act…
A formal proposal to Premier Cho Jung-tai and central bank Governor Yang Chin-long would make Taiwan the next test case for sovereign BTC adoption, with the central bank asked to deliver a…
Coinbase has announced that a deal has been reached on a key provision of a major U.S. crypto legislation package — a…
A compromise on whether exchanges can pay stablecoin rewards — the clause banks fought hardest against — removes the biggest known obstacle to the broader market-structure package moving forward.
Draft language in the Clarity Act carves out explicit permission for crypto firms to offer rewards on stablecoins — a…
Selig told Pompliano the agency is finalizing the regulatory characterization that has forced venues into 50-year-old workaround structures — an official product is weeks away.
Six regional storylines in one week, but the directional read is mixed: a sovereign-scale pension allocator moves in, Canada reverses on access, and a payments giant spins crypto out as a standalone…
Brazil's central bank has moved to prohibit the use of cryptocurrency in regulated cross-border payment settlements…
Resolution BCB 561 forces all international payment rails into FX or regulated accounts — a 10-year data retention mandate raises the cost of compliance for any PSP still routing through stablecoins.
A 294-134 House vote last July proved the bill can pass — the question is whether the Senate can hold the coalition together through stablecoin yield, DeFi, and ethics friction before the 2026…
Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott has said he expects the CLARITY Act to reach the President's desk before the…
Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, publicly declared himself a long-term Bitcoin enthusiast and framed the asset as…
Under oath during OpenAI court proceedings, Elon Musk stated that most cryptocurrencies are scams — adding the caveat…
The remark landed in a lawsuit deposition about OpenAI's 2018 ICO plan — a notable reversal from the Tesla CEO who once put $1.5B into Bitcoin and lifted Dogecoin with a tweet.
The Commissioner is now testing whether Harborne's gift crosses the line from a personal present to a political contribution — and the answer reshapes the risk UK politicians carry from accepting…
Traditional banks are pushing back against the pace of stablecoin legislation in the US, seeking to delay rules that…
Bessent's OFAC action is one of the largest single freezes tied to Tehran's on-chain infrastructure and signals the Treasury no longer treats crypto as peripheral to sanctions enforcement.
Treasury's 2026 budget applies equity-style 30-day rules to digital assets and slaps a 30% mining electricity tax on proof-of-work operators — but a pro-crypto Congress has already buried similar…
The delisting is procedural, but the strategy behind it isn't: lead-investor status in a locally licensed Malaysian venue positions Bybit for a regulated on-ramp into a Southeast Asian market that…