Regulations

Social media crypto drama is heating up again. The latest spat is between Robinhood and the once ‘Prince of Meme Stocks' AMC.Robinhood's top legal officer rejected AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron's demand to stop trading an AMC-linked Stock…

A Michigan judge has placed prediction-market exchange Kalshi under a preliminary injunction that keeps its sports event contracts fenced off from people in the state until the court issues a final order. The ruling moves the dispute beyond…

The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS Act, is the new federal framework for payment stablecoin issuers. Its reserve rules aim to make each token a safer dollar claim, while the public…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked a federal court on Sept. 2 to dismiss CME's challenge to Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual contract.The lawsuit turns on whether a contract without a fixed expiration belongs in the US futures…

House Republicans have erased most of the remaining pre-election runway for the CLARITY Act despite mounting pressure to pass it.House Republican leaders canceled votes for the weeks of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, moving the chamber’s departure…

Revolut filed with the OCC and FDIC on March 4 to establish Revolut Bank US, an insured national bank that would take deposits, issue credit cards, make loans, and connect directly to Fedwire and ACH.Nearly six months later, that…

Kalshi, the US-regulated exchange that won approval for a Bitcoin perpetual in May, is preparing to ask the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a perpetual futures contract tied to West Texas Intermediate crude oil, Reuters…

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized Hamas-linked fundraising infrastructure and used it to intercept cryptocurrency donations intended for the group.Earlier this week, the Justice Department said the operation followed…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a Travel Rule that will require supervised crypto platforms to collect and transmit information identifying the people or entities behind coin transfers.The regulator announced the…

Circle president Heath Tarbert told Congress on Sept. 2 that placing digital-dollar infrastructure under US rules could reinforce the network effects that support the currency’s global role. The testimony framed stablecoin and digital asset…