CFTC chair: U.S. to legalize true crypto perps within weeks
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.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
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…
A South Korean court has overturned the six-month operating suspension imposed on Bithumb, one of the country's largest…
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…
The first-ever 9-of-12 emergency multi-sig execution on a major L2 sets a precedent the rest of DeFi will now have to argue about.
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.
Polymarket has tapped Chainalysis to layer Wall Street-calibre compliance and monitoring infrastructure onto its…
Anchorage Digital and M0 have announced a partnership aimed at powering a new wave of regulated stablecoins — combining…
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…
The plan targets nearly 4,000 machines — the highest per-capita network of any country — that Ottawa says have become a primary funnel for fraud and money laundering.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stated that the United States is actively targeting Iran's access to…