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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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.
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.
Trump urged the Senate to pass a "fair version" of the CLARITY Act at a White House meeting with crypto CEOs and regulators, ahead of a September cloture vote and the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee session.
The SEC proposed a "Regulation Crypto Assets" framework with token-issuance exemptions and a securities safe harbor, stepping into the gap left by the stalled CLARITY Act.
The Treasury Department opened a 60-day public comment period on core definitions and licensing rules under the GENIUS Act, the stablecoin law set to take effect January 2027.
Reuters reports Binance handed Russian investigators transaction records and identity documents used to prosecute a Ukrainian donor on terrorism-financing charges, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023.
Chainalysis is challenging the federal government over ICE's decision to hand TRM Labs a sole-source blockchain-surveillance contract — a sealed complaint, a quiet docket, and a $95 million question about who gets to watch the chain.
The Energy Ministry of the world's #2 bitcoin mining nation ordered rigs in its capital to power down year-round, citing grid strain.
A King County Superior Court judge ordered Kalshi to stop offering sports, election, and entertainment contracts to Washington residents, with hard geofencing deadlines in August and September.
Cboe BZX has filed the first US bid for triple-leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs, a six-fund Volatility Shares suite that would double the existing 2x leverage ceiling on American crypto exchange-traded products.
