Malta MFSA Proposes Bringing DeFi Under MiCA Framework
The discussion paper lands the first structured attempt by a national EU regulator to operationalize MiCA's 'full decentralisation' carve-out — and it lands while MiCA's DeFi gap is still being…
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The discussion paper lands the first structured attempt by a national EU regulator to operationalize MiCA's 'full decentralisation' carve-out — and it lands while MiCA's DeFi gap is still being…
The rate hold was priced in — but the dot plot wasn't. Crypto fell even as Trump's signed Iran deal lifted stocks, a sign the Fed, not geopolitics, is driving the tape.
The suit would hinge on Dodd-Frank's swap-vs-future line — and with CME stepping in, the fight stops being a CFTC-vs-predictiom-market story and becomes a battle over who gets to define the next…
A deep-red state joining the state-level fight puts Kentucky's GOP attorney general on the opposite side of a Trump-aligned CFTC — and the contradiction is now the story.
Pritzker signed the levy into law days after the crypto industry spent $10M backing the opposing candidate in the state's Democratic primary; with the legislature out of session, the most realistic…
The buyback is a confidence vote, not a turnaround — the equity is still trading near $6.07 against an $18 January IPO, and rivals Kraken and Consensys have already pulled their listings.
Roughly 75% of pre-MiCA crypto registrations in Europe are expected to lapse this month — BitGo's BaFin-authorized custody stack offers a faster on-ramp than building a regulated stack from scratch.
Bond traders are now pricing a 2026 rate hike while stocks decouple from yields — a macro pincer that drains the liquidity bid crypto’s recovery was built on.
The 130-page proposal treats permitted stablecoin issuers like banks under the Bank Secrecy Act — the structural win legitimizers want, with secondary-market KYC flagged as the open fight.
Schiff's concession that BTC likely survives doesn't soften his core thesis: a decade-long underperformance call against gold, with ETFs framed as an exit ramp for early holders rather than fresh…
The registration and trading ban closes out the agency's case but adds nothing to the 12-year prison sentence — the structural read is that a top-tier US regulator now has a permanent fraud record on…
The Hormuz chokepoint carries roughly 20% of global oil trade; its reopening removes an acute supply-shock risk that had been repricing energy markets and pressuring risk assets worldwide.
The denial closes off a circulating narrative that the US agreed to a large financial transfer to Iran, with no such deal on record.
The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% of global oil trade; its reopening removes an acute supply-disruption risk that had been pricing into energy markets.
The lawsuit puts a rare institutional spotlight on regulatory unpredictability in US derivatives markets, with CME arguing the CFTC shifted its stance without notice or justification.
The departure closes a chapter in the Foundation's leadership transition — Wang had been on sabbatical while Bastian ran day-to-day operations, and her exit formalizes that hand-off.
Wang is the second co-executive director out the door this year, bringing senior departures at the EF to eight over five months — a brain drain the market is now pricing into ETH's competitive…
The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% of global oil trade; its reopening removes one of the most acute geopolitical risk premiums hanging over energy and shipping markets.
A decade after the most consequential smart-contract breach in crypto history, the Ethereum ecosystem has channelled the lesson into a $130 million security fund — a direct institutional response to…
Wang's departure removes one of two co-executive directors from the Foundation's leadership, raising fresh questions about governance continuity at Ethereum's central coordinating body.