Regulations

Ripple secured preliminary approval as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, on June 23. The approval was delivered as a “Green Light Letter,” which the company is pairing with the EMI license it…

Congress just blocked the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC, and the companies benefiting most are private stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether.The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate 85-5 on June 22 and cleared the…

The Bank of England has dropped the piece of its stablecoin plan that the industry hated most, the proposed £20,000 limit on how much sterling stablecoin any one person could hold, along with the £10 million ceiling for businesses. In their…

The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to capture users and deposits from platforms that may no longer be allowed to serve the bloc.The new regulation, which is set to take…

Banks across the US, the UK, and Europe finally have a legal path to issue stablecoins, custody Bitcoin, and settle tokenized funds, yet the capital rulebook that governs it all still treats a Bitcoin position as something close to a…

Kalshi’s live U.S.-regulated crypto perpetual futures move the story out of the approval phase and into the order book.The company’s public perpetual futures page and individual product pages now present U.S.-regulated crypto perps as a…

Hyperliquid has been added to Singapore's Investor Alert List, putting DeFi's permissionless pitch to a consumer-protection test: the network can keep settling trades, while the interface and public messaging around it draw regulatory…

Binance is set to miss Europe's July 1 MiCA authorization deadline, moving the bloc's exchange-access fight from a policy countdown into a live test of where users, assets, and trading liquidity move next.The exchange has told European…

Some of the largest US crypto companies and advocacy groups are escalating a coordinated lobbying campaign to secure a Senate vote on landmark digital-asset legislation before lawmakers leave Washington for their August recess.The…

Ripple and SBI announced the official launch of RLUSD in Japan on June 24, following JFSA approval, with the stablecoin available to institutional and retail users through SBI VC Trade.Ripple categorized RLUSD under Japan's Payment Services…