SEC eyes 1990s playbook to regulate on-chain crypto venues
Atkins' two-step — limited conditional access first, formal rulemaking second — borrows the path that produced Reg ATS in 1998 and signals the most constructive US crypto posture in years.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
Atkins' two-step — limited conditional access first, formal rulemaking second — borrows the path that produced Reg ATS in 1998 and signals the most constructive US crypto posture in years.
American consumers have pushed credit card debt to a record $1.33 trillion, a milestone that signals deepening…
Scheduling the markup over banking-industry objections signals lawmakers are willing to advance the current text — the real fight now shifts to a Senate floor vote and merging with the Agriculture…
Michael Burry, the investor who famously shorted the 2008 housing market, is drawing a direct parallel between today's…
A committee vote is procedural, not passage — but the bipartisan compromise from Tillis and Alsobrooks is the first real signal that stablecoin-yield language can survive a floor fight.
The May 14 markup on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is the first real test of whether a comprehensive market-structure framework can clear committee this session.
The rescheduled markup is the procedural gate — a yes vote advances the bill to the Senate floor, but ethics rules could trip the next stage even if the committee clears it.
President Donald Trump announced that 115,000 Americans found employment in April, using the figure to argue that the…
Reiners' argument collides with the most uncomfortable fact in crypto enforcement right now: the SEC's own chairman was nominated by the issuer's largest beneficiary.
A compromise between Sens. Alsobrooks and Tillis on stablecoin rewards has industry odds of a comprehensive crypto bill climbing to roughly 60% — but ethics provisions tied to Trump's crypto ventures…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins publicly called on Congress to pass crypto market structure legislation and deliver the Clarity…
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, offered an offbeat take on Elon Musk's space ambitions, suggesting the…
The chair wants notice-and-comment rulemaking — not enforcement — to fit a single protocol that executes trades, manages collateral and settles at once, signaling the clearest break yet from…
Payward becomes the third major crypto venue in two months to seek a federal trust license after Coinbase and Ripple — a sequence that quietly rewires how institutional crypto custody is regulated in…
The ECB chief frames the choice as sovereignty vs. private risk: 90% of the $310B stablecoin market sits with Tether and Circle, and Europe would rather anchor tokenisation to central bank money than…
The new framework recognises that a single protocol can clear, route, and settle in one motion — a hybrid DeFi/TradFi structure legacy exchange and broker definitions were never built to fit.
Kraken's parent company Payward has filed an application for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller…
A stablecoin-yield breakthrough cleared the substantive policy lane, but the new Tillis-Alsobrooks language still has to survive a committee vote where Trump-linked crypto ethics — not the policy…
The OCC bid stacks on top of Kraken's Wyoming SPDI and Fed master account, signalling a deliberate multi-charter push to court institutional capital ahead of a likely IPO.
Banks are hiring into Bitcoin desks and a landmark market-structure bill could land on Trump's desk this summer — a setup the channel maps against the summer 2020 cycle that launched the last bull…