Regulations

The SEC just made its biggest crypto classification move in years, placing major tokens such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, XRP, and Chainlink into a “digital commodities” bucket while saying some token sales can stop…

The President-backed effort to set broader rules for US crypto markets is nearing a political deadline in Congress as banks press lawmakers and regulators to block stablecoin companies from offering rewards that resemble interest on…

World Liberty Financial is offering “guaranteed direct access” to its business development team to investors who lock up $5 million in WLFI tokens for six months, Reuters reported on Mar. 13.The arrangement creates what the project calls…

Polymarket and Kalshi are trying to raise money at valuations that put them in the top tier of consumer-fintech names, even as Washington moves closer to writing new rules for the product they sell. Both companies are reportedly in early…

Washington has spent years talking about a US CBDC as a distant possibility. It was an abstract policy idea, safely contained inside white papers and partisan messaging. But then the Senate put a number on it and made it very real.On March…

On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts.Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions…

The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read.The landscape is simple: will big banks continue to treat…

The SEC and CFTC have just signed an agreement that turns months of public harmonization talk into a formal operating framework for crypto, derivatives, and hybrid market products.The agreement covers product definitions, clearing and…

South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story.Enforcement against the country's second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and…

Kalshi's first move outside the United States is not London, not Singapore, not any of the financial centers that have spent years building crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks.It is Brazil, through XP International and its brokerage arm,…