Fairshake, the crypto industry's leading super PAC, has opened a $30 million ad campaign against former Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, one week after the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate....
The SEC's new innovation exemption could allow the first tokenized stock trading platforms to publish operational plans as early as next quarter. The five-year exemption permits trading of tokenized U.S....
Iris Ramaya Au of Irvine, California, received 18 months in federal prison for concealing over $2.6 million in income linked to her ex-boyfriend's crypto crimes, plus $1.484 million in restitution...
Stablecoin issuer Agora has received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to form a federally chartered national trust bank, potentially placing its stablecoin, custody, and trading infrastructure under direct federal...
The CLARITY Act failed 49-50, but the SEC, CFTC and OCC immediately advanced crypto oversight through exemptions, rule filings and trust charters. With the Fed hiking for the first time...
Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says the crypto industry did everything it could to advance the Clarity Act, but partisan gridlock — not industry failure — blocked the bill. He...
South Africa's proposed foreign-exchange rules would subject cryptocurrencies to capital controls and restrict cross-border use, prompting digital-asset firms to shelve at least three deals worth about $135 million. The move...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google Ireland €403 million for GDPR violations related to location data processing across Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy. The ruling mandates...
The Central Bank of Russia has proposed a 1% capital cap on banks' crypto and foreign digital instrument exposure, while conditionally excluding client assets held in custody. The move creates...
The US has drafted ICC sanctions that would cut the tribunal off from dollar transactions. While crypto is often touted as a sanctions workaround, stablecoin issuers' compliance with OFAC limits...
The FDA and Duke-Margolis will hold a public workshop to review evidence standards for rare disease treatments, potentially reshaping how clinical trials are designed and approved. The outcome could affect...
Six Nobel Prize-winning economists have endorsed California's Proposition 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires, while Ripple executive chairman Chris Larsen has spent over $10 million to defeat it....
Coinbase Derivatives has filed a rule change to create cash-settled perpetual futures on individual stocks and ETFs, subject to CFTC approval. The proposal imposes strict liquidity and margin thresholds, signaling...
China's Supreme People's Court has issued new guidance on AI-related disputes, establishing that while model internals may stay confidential, deploying companies must be able to explain their systems, data, and...
Michael Saylor is urging the crypto industry to reject restrictive additions to a CLARITY Act compromise, arguing that stablecoin limits and extra compliance burdens would slow innovation. The debate now...
Kalshi has filed with the SEC and CFTC to launch perpetual futures on individual U.S. stocks, using crypto-style funding payments instead of fixed expirations. The proposal, submitted alongside a similar...
Interpol is expanding its Silver Notice mechanism, enabling 196 member states to trace and seize cross-border criminal assets including cryptocurrency. At least €36 million in assets have been tracked so...
A new antitrust lawsuit accuses SpaceX, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI of conspiring to slow down AI development. The legal action introduces significant regulatory risk for tech giants, with potential impacts...
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has been effectively shelved, leaving US crypto regulation to the SEC and CFTC. Chairman Atkins is advancing tokenized securities rules and a new capital-raising...
The CLARITY Act will not advance this year, leaving U.S. crypto regulation to agency guidance while Hong Kong pilots Exchange Fund Bill tokenization and Brazil tests securities tokenization. The fragmented...
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