Legislation and rulemaking, SEC/CFTC and global regulators, enforcement actions and court rulings, central banks and CBDCs, tax and licensing regimes.
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Hyperliquid is in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward to route crypto perpetuals through the US-regulated Bitnomial exchange, giving the offshore derivatives platform its first American foothold as the CFTC reviews the proposed structure.
Kalshi permanently banned former congressman George Santos over self-bets on his State of the Union attendance, landing its first lifetime ban and a $71,356 penalty.
The CFTC ordered Gabriel Perez to pay $172,000 for trading Kalshi event contracts on government announcements he saw before the public — the second federal-employee insider case on a prediction market in four weeks.
BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos dismissed stablecoins as a credible payments-at-scale solution and promoted tokenized bank deposits, as a new FSI study found sharp divergence in how five jurisdictions regulate issuers.
A Ninth Circuit panel upheld Nevada's authority over Kalshi's sports-betting event contracts, rejecting federal preemption and widening a circuit split that may reach the Supreme Court.
Public Citizen tallies $4.7 billion in investor losses across Trump-linked crypto ventures while the president's family earned an estimated $1.4 billion, as California's Senate advances a memecoin ban for public officials.
Polish prosecutors detained Olympic Committee president Radosław Piesiewicz over an alleged luxury-watch bribe from collapsed crypto exchange Zondacrypto, deepening a probe that already drew the prime minister's accusations of Russian intelligence ties.
The UK is writing a new "innovation" duty for the Bank of England covering digital payments and stablecoins, while keeping financial stability as the primary objective — a shift in how a major central bank frames crypto-adjacent payment rails.
The SEC sent its crypto custody rule overhaul to the White House for OIRA review on Aug. 25, a procedural step toward letting advisers and funds hold digital assets under updated rules while the CLARITY Act idles in the Senate.
A federal judge pushed Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's retrial to April 2027, leaving his acquittal motion undecided and extending legal uncertainty for crypto-privacy tool developers.
