Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
The UK's final regime lands lighter than the 2023 draft on the regulated-activity perimeter but harder on issuer capital, with a stablecoin issuance cap and a designated supervisor handed to the FCA.
The Oct. 25, 2027 regime is the first time UK crypto venues, custodians and stablecoin issuers operate under a single prudential and conduct rulebook, putting Britain alongside the EU's MiCA on…
The investment bank still expects a July 13 Senate markup, but ethics, law enforcement, and banking-industry friction mean the crypto market-structure bill faces real odds of slipping past the…
The call from the largest US bank by assets is a structural endorsement of tokenized rails as infrastructure, not as a crypto trade, and reframes the policy debate around who builds the next…
Final judgment lands on a WhatsApp-group impersonation scheme that ran from September 2023 through June 2024; the dollar figure is modest but the case closes a Biden-era enforcement file.
The largest US bank by assets is now treating tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain settlement as core infrastructure, not a side experiment, with implications across custody, payments, and capital…
Two senior bank leaders told Washington the US needs a market-structure framework, arguing that any stablecoin allowed to pay holders yield effectively rebuilds the deposit base outside the…
The endorsement from the largest US bank by assets narrows the political path for a digital-asset framework, while CEO Jamie Dimon's vow to fight yield provisions down to the wire keeps the fight…
A federal rulebook makes tokens legal in all fifty states; it does nothing to stop a cash-strapped state from layering its own transaction tax on top, and Illinois just put a $60M-a-year price tag on…
Binance's founder frames the withdrawn Greek MiCA application as regulator-ready and blocked by unnamed political forces, while speculating, without evidence, that ECB chief Lagarde may have been…
The world's largest custodian now lets institutions convert dollars into USDC and back from inside BNY wallets, a structural on-ramp for the same pension and treasury desks that already park cash at…
The transfer is small in market terms, but the signal is large: a sovereign nation converting seized stablecoins into a managed reserve is the kind of precedent other capitals will be asked to…
The FCA registration turns Aave into the rare DeFi protocol with a compliant on-ramp from UK bank accounts, but Push will live or die on whether the rails retain users after the deposit.
The exchange's EU passport bid died days before it could be tested, leaving Binance serving the bloc through a patchwork of national registrations rather than the unified MiCA license it had targeted.
A Monday sit-down with sheriffs and other law enforcement groups is the clearest signal yet that the administration wants the crypto market structure bill across the Senate floor before the August…
The wind-down is gradual and the custody floor is preserved, but the signal is structural: any venue that wants European retail flow from here has to carry a MiCAR-authorized entity, not a…
The spend figure lands as Binance pushes to reposition itself as the compliance-first centralized exchange, with the fraud-interception tally doubling as both a deterrent pitch and a regulatory…
Up to 80% of Europe's 3,000 pre-MiCA VASPs may not survive the cutover, and the EBA is pairing the licensing cliff with a 12.5% turnover fine regime aimed squarely at major stablecoin issuers.
The proposed ontology tries to put formal definitions around what an investigator means by a 'cluster' of addresses, drawing on the Sterlingov trial as proof the methodology can hold up in court.
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
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