Bitcoin Drops as Fed Surprise-Hike Risk Builds Before July 29
Futures price only 10bp of tightening against a possible 25bp move, the loosest setup since 1994. Under a chair who rejects forward guidance, that gap is the whole trade.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Futures price only 10bp of tightening against a possible 25bp move, the loosest setup since 1994. Under a chair who rejects forward guidance, that gap is the whole trade.
The FSB move follows Telegram's documented refusal to moderate content tied to sabotage and cyber fraud on its platform, a stance that put Moscow on a collision course with its homegrown founder…
The bill that would route crypto oversight to the CFTC faces a packed Senate calendar. With Russia sanctions, nominations, and a government funding fight ahead, a vote may slip to a narrow September…
The terrorism-facilitation charge escalates a four-year FSB pressure campaign against Telegram and revives the question of whether Moscow's reach now extends to platform founders on the move.
A negotiated ethics counteroffer from both camps could let the market-structure bill reach the White House within days, the closest the bill has come to clearing.
The roster matters more than the headcount: a critical mass of signers from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google turns an activist letter into an insider signal that the labs cannot police themselves.
The SEC signaling it's willing to mirror the Clarity Act through rulemaking, rather than wait for legislation, keeps momentum on a unified US crypto framework alive even if Congress stalls.
New Canadian CEO Eric Richmond wants derivatives, DeFi and tokenized products on par with U.S. access. Canada needs a national digital-asset instrument, he says, or it falls behind.
The base case leans on a Fed liquidity turn, a Senate floor vote on the CLARITY Act before the August 7 recess, and $1.2B weekly ETF inflows that already absorbed $465M of late-week outflows.
The practice undercuts licensing markets and gives AI labs a legal gray zone the Authors Guild argues scales unfairly against authors.
The lawsuit alleges Apple promoted Sparrow impersonators inside curated crypto collections despite a year of warnings from the wallet's own developer, testing the App Store's 'safe and trusted' pitch…
Wall Street veteran reframes crypto's defining contract as plain futures without expiry, arguing ADL and high leverage are exchange choices, not features of the product itself.
The dot plot isn't the only thing traders are watching; a non-trivial tail of rate-hike odds ahead of tomorrow's FOMC is forcing desks to repricing the whole curve.
Five Wall Street heavyweights publicly endorsed the crypto market structure bill this week, exposing a sharp split with JPMorgan and putting the Senate's shrinking August timeline at the center of…
Patrick McHenry's framing cut to the heart of it: the world's largest asset manager just endorsed the bill, and lawmakers about to vote no now need cover to keep saying no.
Crypto's two biggest near-term catalysts are slipping: a 36% priced rate-hike probability is double last week's read, and the market-structure bill gets pushed past this week as nominations and…
The injunction lands days before Minnesota's law would have criminalized routine exchange operations, but the underlying state-level push to label prediction markets as gambling rolls on.
A $239B dormant-Bitcoin claim just hit a court stay, a same-day spend, and a new state-manual conflict over when abandoned crypto actually escheats to the government.
Tiered capital requirements for new crypto custodians land just days after the EU sanctioned 14 Russia-linked crypto firms, signalling Moscow is choosing regulated rails over offshore exits.
The guilty plea by HDR Global Trading marks one of the most significant AML enforcement outcomes in crypto exchange history, setting a compliance benchmark every offshore venue now operates against.