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 breach at France's tax authority exposed personal and financial data on roughly 678,000 people, security researchers say, as the country logs a record pace of violent crypto robberies.
MSCI's consultation on excluding non-operating companies from its Global Investable Market Indexes appears to capture Strategy and Metaplanet, the two largest listed bitcoin treasury firms, potentially forcing passive funds to sell.
Baltimore's lawsuit against Kalshi and Polymarket, with Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull named as partners, opens a new city-level front in the fight over whether sports-linked prediction markets are illegal gambling.
The SEC's Division of Investment Management told Franklin Templeton it would not recommend enforcement against its traditional funds for holding shares of the BENJI tokenized money-market fund.
The CFTC ordered Kalshi to keep its prediction markets running in New York after the state sued to bar them as illegal gambling, invoking emergency authority the agency says protects its exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts.
Federal regulators filed parallel SEC and CFTC civil actions against Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from roughly 1,600 customers.
The Senate left for August recess without clearing the CLARITY Act, pushing a procedural vote to September even as bitcoin held above $65,000 and a former defense secretary framed the bill as a national-security measure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and permits domestic retail trading for the first time.
