El Salvador's Bitcoin reserve has climbed to 7,777 BTC with $162 million in unrealized gains, despite an IMF agreement barring further public-fund purchases. The government classifies new coins as private...
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt says political disputes and banking lobbying have stalled the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in the Senate, despite Trump's ethics concessions. The administration may...
An updated crowdsourced dataset from the BitcoinPoliticians project shows only about 5% of US Congress members have disclosed crypto-related holdings. The finding highlights a persistent knowledge and exposure gap in...
The Bank of Russia wants unlicensed crypto exchange operators gone by July 1, 2027, following a legalization law that recognizes digital assets as property and puts oversight under the central...
With the CLARITY Act dead in the Senate, U.S. crypto rulemaking has shifted to the SEC and CFTC. Kraken parent Payward's plan to deploy a permissioned HIP-3 market on HyperCore...
The UN hosted its first dedicated blockchain panel during Digital Cooperation Day 2026, focusing on financial inclusion and sovereign digital infrastructure for developing nations. Pakistan, Circle, and Paystand executives joined...
a16z and the DeFi Education Fund have proposed a safe harbor that would exempt qualifying DEX protocols and applications from SEC exchange registration. The framework sets four objective criteria—non-custodial, automated,...
The CFTC is investigating Kalshi over alleged wash trading in its ether futures market, citing nearly one million similar-sized trades since August. Kalshi denies the claims, attributing the activity to...
The SEC's tokenization boom is built on a five-year exemption that a future commission chair could revoke through rulemaking alone, analysts warn. With no statutory anchor, tokenized securities face political...
Coinbase's intelligence team helped trace $1.1 million in Tron payments tied to EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform. The operator was arrested in London and Microsoft seized 50 websites, underscoring crypto's...
Kalshi's Ethereum perpetual futures contract has drawn CFTC and trader scrutiny after data showed nearly $1 billion in volume since August, raising suspicions of wash trading. The case tests whether...
The CFTC has issued compliance guidance warning that prediction market contracts based on whether a person mentions a specific word or attends an event pose severe manipulation and insider trading...
a16z and the DeFi Education Fund have submitted a joint proposal to the SEC's crypto task force, urging a safe harbor for decentralized exchange protocols. The move aims to reduce...
Senator Cynthia Lummis says Democrats pushed crypto-whale disclosure language into the Clarity Act but voted against it. The clash exposes how market-structure legislation remains tangled in election-year politics, leaving exchanges...
The People's Bank of China has reaffirmed its total ban on virtual currency activities, explicitly prohibiting offshore issuance of RMB-pegged stablecoins and warning the public against crypto investment traps. The...
European central banks are pressing Brussels to remove MiCA's requirement that large stablecoin issuers hold 60% of reserves in commercial bank deposits — the exact clause that led Tether to...
Dutch police arrested two men accused of using counterfeit EURC tokens to defraud Rolex sellers on Marktplaats in August 2025. The case exposes a consumer-protection gap in Europe's stablecoin payments...
The European Central Bank and EU national central banks have urged lawmakers to drop a MiCA provision that would force stablecoin issuers to hold minimum reserves in bank deposits. The...
Manhattan federal prosecutors and the DOJ criminal division are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed Iran-linked trading, three years after a $4.3 billion sanctions settlement. The renewed probe raises compliance costs,...
X is suing the operators of six crypto-themed accounts in the High Court of England and Wales, seeking at least £207,384 in clawed-back creator payouts plus £75,000 in costs over...
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