Regulations

On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets.Alongside everything else…

For years, the shortest line of attack against Tether was the demand for a full independent audit.The audit never came, and the company absorbed the reputational cost without visible damage to its position. USDT crossed $184 billion in…

This month, Kentucky lawmakers advanced another bill that critics say could make self-custody impossible for hardware wallet manufacturers to deliver without building a backdoor into their products. It comes after passing a bill last year…

The crypto industry finally got the clear lines it spent years demanding from Washington.Six days after the SEC and CFTC unveiled their new crypto framework, the policy is now moving into the formal publication process through the Federal…

The SEC and CFTC just gave crypto its clearest and most straightforward regulatory guidance in years. Most crypto assets will no longer be treated as presumptive securities, and the agencies drew a sharper line between open crypto markets…

The average Bitcoin retail investor who recently discovered crypto might never have considered a stablecoin that pays yield on an idle balance. That fight, buried inside Senate negotiations over the CLARITY Act, is about to matter to them…

Crypto wallets used to mean one thing: self-custody. Users held their keys, owned their assets, and stayed off the radar of traditional finance.Phantom's Mar. 17 no-action relief from the CFTC's Market Participants Division rewrites that…

A proposal in Washington could alter one of the basic rhythms of US markets: how often public companies have to publish quarterly reports.The SEC is reportedly preparing a proposal that would make quarterly reporting optional, letting…

The stablecoin debate in Washington is increasingly becoming a fight over a single question: who gets to keep deposit insurance on-chain?FDIC Chair Travis Hill signaled that payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act should not qualify for…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has drawn its clearest line yet around which parts of crypto it views as outside securities law, a move that hands the industry a new map of regulatory winners while opening a narrower lane…