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Regulators, courts and legislatures.
The prediction market operator asked the SEC and CFTC on Friday to sign off on equity contracts with no expiry date, cleared through its own registered clearinghouse. Coinbase filed for the same product the same day, and Kraken's Bitnomial is close behind.
The Clarity Act fell eleven votes short in the Senate. Within two days the SEC and CFTC had each moved into the space it left behind.
U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?
Filed through Coinbase Derivatives, the application would let US traders take leveraged positions on individual equities around the clock — without ever owning the shares.
Asset manager VanEck singled out Metaplanet's compensation structure as the worst among the 10 largest digital asset treasury companies, while stablecoin firm Bastion won preliminary OCC approval and Coinbase pushed to list single-stock perpetual futures for US traders.
The exchange's derivatives arm filed with the commodities regulator to offer never-expiring futures on single equities, with an initial lineup of roughly 50 to 60 names reportedly planned.
Bitcoin's return above $80,000 lifted Coinbase, Strategy and a broad set of crypto-linked shares, after Senate inaction on the CLARITY Act triggered this week's selloff.
A prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets reached OIRA days after the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, as regulators fill a gap left by stalled legislation.
The prerule-stage filing covers crypto asset transactions and markets but discloses few details, while the SEC and CFTC press ahead with interim relief for software providers and tokenized securities platforms.
The number of credit institutions on ESMA's register doubled to about 80 in under three months, with cooperative banks from Germany joining Deutsche Bank in seeking a foothold.
New reporting says the ECB president raised the exchange's case with Athens directly as Binance's Greek MiCA application collapsed in June.
The relief took effect immediately, skips any application process, and runs five years — with carve-outs for real dividend-paying shares and a 30-day issuer objection window.
Solana hits a seven-month high, $470 million in short positions are wiped out, and the CFTC sends a crypto rulemaking proposal to the White House as digital assets close out a volatile week.
The US Treasury alleges the exchange sat at the center of a scheme that forced vessel owners to buy insurance for passage through the strait, then funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto to the IRGC.
The SEC is giving tokenized stocks a regulated U.S. pathway, while keeping trading volumes, access and issuer rights tightly controlled.
In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.
The US regulator’s move could make it easier for crypto wallets and other apps to offer access to regulated derivatives and prediction markets without registering as introducing brokers.
The Shark Tank investor says Congress will face pressure to revive crypto market structure legislation as it moves to establish tax rules for digital assets.
"Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them," the FCA's enforcement chief said.
Legal experts highlight that because zero P2P crypto firms currently hold FCA authorization, all commercial peer-to-peer venues in the U.K. are operating illegally.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dug into plans for around-the-clock trading in an event on the same morning it approved tokenized securities.
The "innovation exemption" lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking "synthetics" and lets companies block tokenization of their…
Despite the setback, some executives maintain that global crypto activity will continue seeking liquidity regardless of regional legislative delays.
Crypto.com’s CEO said the SEC has cleared its sister exchange, OG.com, to offer US access to single-stock perpetual futures.
The SEC approved a temporary exemption for limited tokenized stock trading on onchain venues, subject to trading limits and transparency rules.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blanket 5-year exemption for listing and trading tokenized securities without registering as an exchange.
The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto.
German crypto adoption is progressing through family offices and wealth managers, while the UK only recently reversed its ban on crypto ETPs for retail investors, explained the researcher.
A substitute text adopted before the vote strips out the Federal Reserve funding routes and thins the transparency rules.
South Korean police referred 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors in a gambling probe involving 26 people and $12.7 million in wagers.
The Celsius bankruptcy estate alleges BitMEX wrongfully liquidated positions involving 6,360 BTC during the March 2020 market crash.
The American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 passed the US House Committee on Financial Services in a 28-21 vote on Wednesday.
The bill would exempt qualifying crypto fees from gain-or-loss calculations and restrict tax-loss deductions on tokens sold and quickly repurchased.
Senators from both parties are considering another attempt to advance the CLARITY Act during the lame-duck session, according to policy advocate Adrian Wall.
UK crypto firms can begin applying for FCA authorization on Sept. 30, ahead of new regulations taking effect in October 2027.
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act cleared a key House committee vote, with provisions covering transaction fees, wash sales and mining and staking income.
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act would ease complicated tax burdens for everyday use of cryptocurrencies, though Trump's industry ties spurred some pushback.
Hamas’ military wing advises donors not to use Binance to handle funds but rather to use Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay according to recent U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) documents.
Bernstein said it expects “aggressive and swift” rulemaking from the SEC and CFTC, after the CLARITY Act failed to pass a cloture vote on Tuesday.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million, the most since June, as the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act sent regulatory-sensitive tokens sharply lower.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $450.4 million in net outflows Tuesday, their largest since June 24, as Bitcoin fell and the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate.
The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the crypto market structure bill 11 short of what it needed, and every major token fell.
The crypto industry is already turning to SEC and CFTC rulemaking after the CLARITY Act failed to advance, though a procedural path remains to revive the bill.
Last minute, behind-the-scenes disputes locked in a dismal showing for the market structure legislation the industry pinned its greatest hopes on.
One of the most crucial U.S. regulations for crypto markets couldn't secure enough support to clear the Senate's final 60-vote hurdle.
The years-long effort to set U.S. regulations for crypto markets couldn't muster enough support to make the leap over the Senate's final 60-vote hurdle.
The US Senate Tuesday failed to pass a cloture motion on the CLARITY Act, casting doubt on what would be the country’s first regulatory framework for digital assets.
As the parties dig in their heels, the market structure bill hasn't yet amassed the votes it would need to clear the first Senate hurdle scheduled for Tuesday.
The European Central Bank is enlisting euro zone e-commerce merchants to test a beta version of its retail central bank digital currency.
Prediction markets sharply marked down the crypto market structure bill’s near-term prospects as negotiations remained stuck hours before a key Senate vote.
US prosecutors seek forfeiture of $61 million in USDT allegedly linked to Iranian oil sales. The funds were frozen by Tether in 2025.
Senate crypto bill faces a do-or-die 60-vote test as partisan fights over presidential conflict rules and state AG powers leaves federal digital asset regulation hanging by a thread.
Polymarket odds of the CLARITY Act becoming law this year fell to 16% as key Democrats challenged Republicans’ final text ahead of the Senate vote.
Prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture complaint against what they call Iran's illegal crypto proceeds that are used to fund its military.
CoinEx will cease operations in December after nine years, blaming falling trading volumes and liquidity, a prolonged crypto downturn and rising compliance costs.
Democratic Senators were said to be meeting late Monday to discuss the latest proposed draft text.
Senate Democrats are reportedly preparing a counterproposal to Republicans’ “final” CLARITY Act offer ahead of a crucial procedural vote on Tuesday.
The Clarity Act could give banks, brokers and asset managers a clearer rulebook, but financial firms have already moved far enough into digital assets that failure may slow adoption rather than stop it.
The SEC chair said crypto issuance, transfer agent modernization and custody will form the backbone of the agency’s regulatory push.
One of the top crypto market structure negotiators in Washington says she's run out of gas on new revisions for the bill she's worked on for more than five years.