OFAC issued five sectoral determinations under EO 13902 covering digital assets, gold, aviation, shipping and tech, naming a UAE broker accused of processing over $100 million in crypto for IRGC-QF oil sales.
The Coinbase-affiliated advocacy group backed 32 House candidates with federal crypto legislation stalled in the Senate.
US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs pulled in $2.6 billion combined over the past week — their strongest inflow week since October — as weekly trading volume more than tripled to $29 billion alongside a sharp price rally.
ZEC traded above $800 for the first time since 2018 after Grayscale filed its fifth amended SEC application to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF, fueling billions in futures volume.
Crypto Council for Innovation and Blockchain Association file suit over Illinois's 0.2% Digital Asset Tax, the second legal challenge to the law before its 2026 effective date.
Solana activated its first slot-time reduction since genesis, dropping the target from 400ms to 350ms as the opening step in a roadmap toward 200ms.
Laser Digital, Nomura's digital asset arm, has received Japan's first crypto exchange approval in four years from the FSA, with plans to expand into institutional crypto trading as the country reclassifies digital assets under financial law.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig told the agency's new Innovation Advisory Committee that staff are already exploring a crypto market-structure framework and will move quickly if the Clarity Act stalls in the Senate.
A governance vote moved 546.9 million OP tokens from future user airdrops into a Foundation-controlled Strategic Ecosystem Fund for partnerships and institutional growth, leaving no further airdrops planned.
President Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring offshore perpetuals platform Hyperliquid into the US in a "fully compliant and legal fashion," sending HYPE up 17% and signaling a path for onchain derivatives venues to obtain domestic licenses.
