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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A Bank of Korea study finds Binance fiat-stablecoin listings cut local currency premiums and tie dollar-stablecoin demand to local-currency depreciation against the dollar.
The National Sheriffs' Association shifted to neutral on the CLARITY Act in a Sept. 4 letter to Senate leaders, removing a law-enforcement objection weeks before a scheduled cloture vote.
The IMF now says El Salvador's bitcoin reserves grew through private donations, not public money, a reversal from its earlier claim that coins were merely shifting between government wallets.
The CFTC urged a federal judge to throw out CME Group's lawsuit over Kalshi's crypto perpetual futures, saying the exchange operator hasn't shown concrete financial harm.
ASIC is enforcing an Oct. 1 licensing deadline for Australian crypto firms, warning of fines up to 10% of annual turnover for unlicensed operators.
The FBI took control of fundraising domains linked to Hamas's military wing and seized roughly $560,000 in cryptocurrency, according to the Justice Department.
New Jersey asked the US Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether states or the CFTC regulate sports-event prediction markets like Kalshi, the first state to escalate the jurisdictional fight.
A 421-page proposal would let transfer agents use blockchain recordkeeping, as the SEC separately set a roundtable on around-the-clock US equities trading.
The NCA secured a Westminster Magistrates' Court freezing order over the first payment under a Sorare–Premier League sponsorship deal, as part of a gambling-law investigation into the Messi-backed NFT fantasy football platform.
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.
