Regulations

President Donald Trump told 60 Minutes on November 2 that China poses a competitive threat in crypto, warning that “China is getting into it very big right now.”The claim surfaces a paradox. Beijing banned crypto trading and mining in…

In the span of one frenetic week, France unveiled seemingly opposing policy tracks.On Oct. 31, the French National Assembly adopted a first-reading amendment rebranding the country’s real estate-only wealth tax into a broader “tax on…

Brian Armstrong wrapped Coinbase’s third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 30, with a line that instantly resolved live prediction market contracts on Polymarket and Kalshi.The episode sparked debates about whether the industry’s most visible…

China has again made its position on stablecoins unmistakably clear.At a recent financial policy forum, Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), described stablecoins as a “new source of vulnerabilities” within the…

Four altcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) begin trading on Oct. 28, marking the first wave of non-Bitcoin, non-Ethereum spot crypto ETFs in the US and potentially catalyzing rotation into altcoin after months of consolidation.Bloomberg…

During the U.S. federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) went into contingency staffing mode. Almost a hundred crypto ETF decisions got stuck in approval limbo as a result, and…

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller proposed a new payment account on Oct. 21 that would grant stablecoin issuers and crypto firms direct access to Fed payment rails without full master account privileges.The announcement at the…

For years, many UK crypto holders have flown under the HMRC tax authority’s radar. They convinced themselves that digital assets somehow sit outside the country’s tax regime. Well, if you’re a UK resident residing in a river near Egypt,…

For nearly a decade, XRP has been the underdog of the digital-asset world, overshadowed by Bitcoin’s narrative dominance, Ethereum’s developer gravity, and Solana’s speed headlines.Yet while most of the market debated ETFs and exchange…

When the annals of 21st-century finance are written, there will be a special chapter (messy, political, and deeply consequential) dedicated to the saga of “debanking.”For much of the last three years, anyone working in crypto, from lean…