FBI's Patel Promises Aggressive Pursuit of Crypto Scammers
The statement is enforcement signalling rather than a new case, but it lands as the FBI publicly re-elevates crypto fraud as a priority under a new director.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
The statement is enforcement signalling rather than a new case, but it lands as the FBI publicly re-elevates crypto fraud as a priority under a new director.
Fed's first GENIUS Act rulemaking lands mid-countdown — issuer identification program drops the same week the market-structure bill needs floor time to clear the Senate before recess.
Chief Counsel Taylor Lindman — a former Chainlink lawyer now inside the SEC's Crypto Task Force — frames tokenized stocks, DeFi protocols, and AI agents as the live edges of the agency's next rule…
The venue's tenth edition pairs with Apex for the first time and promises institutional scale — but long-time $XRP holders read the RLUSD-first framing as a pivot away from the native token.
A weekly round-up finds miners still underwater, Ethereum pushing Glamsterdam on devnets, and Europe's MiCA transition closing on July 1 — three timelines colliding on policy, code, and capital.
The Garcia brothers held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for over eight hours to steal more than $8M in crypto — now they face up to 20 years each and full restitution.
The Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund is purpose-built to hold T-bills and overnight repos under the GENIUS Act — joining State Street, BNY, Goldman and BlackRock in a TradFi stampede for stablecoin…
The novel wrapper targets institutional allocators who want equity beta with a passive BTC accumulation engine — and it lands as Franklin's spot BTC ETF already holds $359M in assets.
Brent settled near $79.85 and tankers cleared the Strait for the first time in weeks, but a dot plot showing 9 of 18 Fed officials now expect a rate hike pushed DXY to a one-year high and drove BTC…
A national pool mandating every licensed miner to connect is the structural tell — Oman isn't just hosting hashrate, it's running it through a single regulator-visible chokepoint.
The tighter signal than the headline targets is the bear case itself — Meta's downside stops at $0.70–$1.00, a stagnation band sitting well below where XRP has actually traded for five months.
The per-transaction levy lands on exchanges, wallet-to-wallet moves, and custody — a structural drag on retail activity in a state that already ranks among the larger US crypto markets.
The 95/5 structure turns dividend payouts into a steady, automatic bid for spot Bitcoin — a regulated wrapper that institutional allocators can buy without ever touching crypto directly.
A regulator-favored derivatives giant is challenging whether a CFTC-regulated event-contract venue can quietly become a leveraged Bitcoin venue — the case will set the boundary between event…
The second co-departure in four months lands while a former core developer warns the foundation could run out of funds within nine — the governance and treasury signal both hit at once.
Just 194 of 3,000+ crypto firms have EU licenses as July 1 hits — Binance faces a Greek rejection, Tether's USDT retreats from licensed venues, and the ECB's digital euro timeline quietly benefits.
The House passed the most consequential US crypto market-structure bill in July 2025; eighteen months later it sits on the Senate calendar with no vote date, caught between banking-industry deposit…
The joint rulemaking lands days after CME sued the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi's perpetual futures — meaning the comment period will shape the very product line the lawsuit targets.
The pitch to bankers comes six weeks after a $1B Series F at a $22B valuation, with annualized revenue doubling since March and May monthly volume hitting $16.8B — even as state-level lawsuits pile…
The $80 billion supplemental request would sit on top of the FY2026 base budget, and a no-pass scenario forces the Pentagon into fresh stopgap funding — the third continuing-resolution cycle in two…