EU Gains Power to Ban Whole Countries From Crypto Markets
Von der Leyen confirmed a 21st sanctions package granting the EU authority to blacklist entire third countries from crypto-asset services — Moscow retaliated the same day with fees on dollar…
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Von der Leyen confirmed a 21st sanctions package granting the EU authority to blacklist entire third countries from crypto-asset services — Moscow retaliated the same day with fees on dollar…
Only $58M was raised across IEOs, ICOs, and IDOs last quarter, an 85% QoQ drop, with just 37 public sales — the lowest tally since the 2020 cycle trough.
Kristin Smith frames the bill as a fork in the road for US-based protocol developers: get the carve-outs right and the talent stays onshore, get them wrong and the next generation of public-chain…
MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho already have the FSA's informal backing — together they move roughly half of Japan's deposits, which is the kind of balance-sheet mass USDT and USDC never had at launch.
The bill cleared committee 15-9, but the floor math now requires at least seven Democrats — and the state-AG enforcement mechanism GOP sources now reject is the same one that put Gallego and…
Japan's three largest banking groups — MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho — are preparing to debut live stablecoin transactions by…
CENTCOM framed the operation as 'self-defense' and proportional, but the strikes land days after Trump said a US-Iran deal was days away — raising the question of whether the diplomatic track…
The European Union is moving to broaden its sanctions regime to cover crypto platforms with ties to Russia, a…
China's central bank added more than 10 tonnes of gold to its reserves in May, the largest single-month purchase since…
Nineteen months of friendlier regulation, a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and the Clarity Act advancing in Washington — and net assets are exactly back where they were the week Trump won.
The Bitcoin maximalist argument in one line — and the open question of whether a ten-year cryptographic migration is really a faster timeline than the banks' own.
Senator Cynthia Lummis made a pointed case for U.S. crypto leadership, arguing that financial freedom is a core…
A Washington state man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in facilitating a $100 million…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev confirmed that Robinhood Securities has received regulatory approval to operate as an IPO…
A House hearing on cryptocurrency taxation has laid bare a divide among lawmakers over how quickly Congress should move…
The letter from Coinbase, Kraken, Solana, Galaxy, a16z, and ~195 others lands on the same week the House Ways and Means unveiled six companion bills — even as prediction-market odds on passage slip.
Ways and Means opened seven draft bills for discussion, but Democrats flagged mining-deferral abuse risks and Chairman Jason Smith's 'bipartisan' framing was met with only conditional buy-in.
Armstrong's POLITICO response reframes the spat as a regulatory question, not a personal one — banking the outcome of the spat on whether Washington writes rules everyone can live with.
Venture firm Paradigm and a prominent Hyperliquid advocate have submitted formal comments urging US regulators to…
Senator Elizabeth Warren is sounding the alarm over what she describes as a deliberately weakened Commodity Futures…