SEC Revives U.S. Crypto Custody Push for Advisers
New federal trust bank charters have widened the field of potential custodians, while the SEC's 2023 effort failed amid industry and small-business objections.
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New federal trust bank charters have widened the field of potential custodians, while the SEC's 2023 effort failed amid industry and small-business objections.
The rollout puts euro-denominated onchain access inside a mainstream retail app, with wider EEA distribution and other currency tokens planned.
The two unresolved charges carry a maximum 40-year sentence, and the new runway gives Storm's lawyers room to press the Cox precedent while spotlighting Chainalysis' 2022 role as a Tornado Cash…
Clearer custody guidance could give investment advisers a more defined compliance path for client-facing digital-asset services.
The CLARITY Act is not the only route in play: SEC and CFTC leadership are signaling that agency action could shape crypto oversight while its Senate path remains unresolved.
The move would put a major US bank closer to the on-chain dollar economy, adding institutional weight to stablecoins as payment and settlement infrastructure.
The exploration puts stablecoins at the center of a banking and payments contest over trust, compliance and distribution.
The 280-year statutory ceiling and a victim count that nearly doubled from the SEC's 2021 civil case show how AI-branded Ponzi schemes are now drawing the full weight of federal criminal courts.
The ECB is selling the 2029 digital euro as a privacy upgrade over bank transfers, but civil society groups argue the safeguards rest on institutional promises, not technical enforcement.
The move puts euro liquidity, reserve backing and compliance at the center of fintech-led stablecoin adoption.
Passage would make Congress the main route to clearer US crypto rules, while failure would leave CFTC and SEC action as the fallback Armstrong endorses.
The partnership links planned stablecoin pilots to Shinhan’s bank and card businesses as South Korea advances a wider framework for stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs.
Japan's 2027 timeline frames blockchain as a medium-term institutional infrastructure project, with implications for tokenized real-world assets.
Tax treatment is the key access variable, allowing institutions to consider ETF exposure without an immediate sale of their Bitcoin position.
A $2B-AUM crypto investor rolled up a long-short book that has beaten an equal-weight BTC, ETH and SOL basket by 86 points YTD and is now pitching LPs on $150M more. M&A in crypto funds is back.
Traders gave up the ability to open new positions at 04:00 UTC on Aug. 26, with force-closes looming through Sept. 23 and a 1% annual drag on balances left behind.
The narrower scope is the tell: the OCC wasn't comfortable with the original ambition, and now Zerohash's crypto-infrastructure partners watch what the regulator actually approves.
The gap between the 4.1% headline rate and broader worker hardship makes underemployment and wage quality central to recession-risk analysis.
No migration deadline yet, but a federal coordination framework now sits over an industry that has already pledged tens of millions to harden Bitcoin against a future quantum break.
The House slate lands two weeks before the Senate's Sept. 15 Clarity Act vote, the first comprehensive federal crypto market-structure bill.