Regulations

BlackRock registered the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust in Delaware on Nov. 19, opening a path toward the firm’s first staked Ethereum ETF in the US.The state-level trust registration does not constitute a formal Securities Act of 1933…

Stablecoins originated as crypto plumbing, tokens pegged to fiat currencies that enable traders to move in and out of volatile assets without relying on traditional banking systems.That narrow use case now sits on a market capitalization of…

SEC exam staff will not treat crypto as a standalone risk in its fiscal 2026 priorities, marking a clear departure from the agency’s approach in 2024 and 2025.The Division of Examinations’ 17-page “2026 Examination Priorities” lays out…

Four days after Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation proposed merging their operations and activating the long-awaited fee switch, a X spat between the protocol’s founder and Gary Gensler’s former chief of staff reopened wounds that the…

Japan is advancing custody rules, Hong Kong is standardizing digitally native bond issuance, and Singapore has approved the first retail tokenized fund.The sequence is rules, issuance, and cash-like instruments. The link to crypto is not…

Grayscale filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Nov. 13 to list Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol GRAY.The firm manages approximately $35 billion across more than 40…

Grayscale filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Nov. 13 to list Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol GRAY.The firm manages approximately $35 billion across more than 40…

Washington has long wrestled with who should police digital assets. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 passed the House this summer, but the Senate had not acted.Now, two Senate committees have released competing drafts, each…

UK citizens are currently blocked from viewing certain Ledger blog pages, including an educational post on multisig wallets, due to new compliance rules. When visiting these pages, users in the UK receive a message:“Due to new rules in the…

The GENIUS Act became law on July 18 after Congress settled that stablecoins should be regulated.What happens next is a two-year rulemaking war that determines whether $250 billion in existing stablecoins flows into bank-wrapped structures…