Alfa-Bank launches crypto custody push after new Russia law
The country's largest private bank plans to become a regulated digital-asset custodian once Russia's new crypto law takes effect, with Sberbank and T-Bank signaling they will follow.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
The country's largest private bank plans to become a regulated digital-asset custodian once Russia's new crypto law takes effect, with Sberbank and T-Bank signaling they will follow.
The bill's path hinges on Democrats' ethics amendments tied to the Trump family's crypto ventures, with the Senate facing roughly 20 working days before recess.
The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act survived a year of standalone scrutiny; whether Section 604 survives the broader market-structure bill decides if US non-custodial builders get a legal floor…
The minutes are the most hawkish read on Fed thinking in months, and they land as markets were pricing a near-certain June cut.
Bitcoin has climbed about 10% in July, but the rebound rests on a bill that has cleared House and Banking Committee yet still has no floor time, no cloture vote, and an ethics fight over Trump's…
The remarks, delivered from the Oval Office, mark a sharp rhetorical escalation and put oil, defense assets, and risk-off positioning back on the front of the trade book.
A sitting CFTC chairman publicly drawing a hard line against a US central bank digital currency is the sharpest policy signal yet that the federal pivot is permanent, not partisan.
Three rulemaking items on the SEC's 2026 agenda compress the timeline for a structured exemptive regime, arriving in parallel with the still-unsigned CLARITY Act and giving token issuers, DeFi…
Less than two weeks after MiCA's grace period ended, Brussels is asking whether the framework needs a 2027 revision to absorb tokenized securities and foreign stablecoin issuers that didn't exist…
The signal is policy priority at the highest level, not new funding. Xi tying his agenda directly to AI and semiconductors reframes the next five years of US-China tech competition.
Bond markets had been pricing disinflation, but a New York Fed survey shows consumers expect 3.7% inflation over the next year, and renewed Middle East strikes just sent oil higher and risk assets…
India's central bank wants to bar regulated lenders from holding or trading any crypto, with privately issued stablecoins singled out as the spillover risk worth choking first.
EIA forecasts electricity consumption climbing to 4,399 billion kWh by 2027, with commercial demand overtaking residential for the first time.
The $350M altcoin liquidation tally and the wipeout of Solana's July rally tell the more painful side of the story, while DXY's inflation-hedge bid is the macro tell every crypto desk is reading.
Geopolitical risk is back in the driving seat: Trump's decision to scrap the Iran memorandum pulled BTC below a key support level and revived the safe-haven bid in oil and gold.
A full-bilateral severance with a NATO ally would be the most aggressive trade move of the second Trump term and risks widening the tariff war into a transatlantic rupture.
The Reserve Bank wants prohibition-leaning policy as tax officials flag that under a quarter of 645,000 crypto users reported transactions, even as India still hosts roughly 39 million investors…
India hosts 39M crypto holders and $2.1B in digital assets, yet the central bank keeps lobbying for prohibition while tax authorities flag widespread underreporting and offshore tracking gaps.
Eli Ben-Sasson's 4% perpetual issuance pitch reframes a long-taboo question: what replaces the 21M cap when lost keys permanently shrink circulating supply.
The by-election matters less than the underlying disclosure failures: a $6.7M unreported gift from a Tether stakeholder and a parallel probe into a convicted fraudster's funding.