Regulations

More than 24 prediction market ETFs proposed by Roundhill, Bitwise, and GraniteShares remain in regulatory limbo, with the SEC yet to act despite the issuers filing their applications in February.The agency pushed back the expected launch…

On July 9, Phantom and the Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the CFTC to remove rules they say “unduly impede” fintech firms from working with registered derivatives markets.Phantom presents itself as the software in the middle, rather than…

A New York federal court has returned prediction-market access to state hands just weeks before the CFTC closes comments on national event-contract rules.In a July 7 opinion and order, Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New…

The CLARITY Act missed its July 4 target, so the focus has now shifted to whether Senate leaders can find time to bring it to the floor before the August work period begins.Stand With Crypto urged supporters to press senators for a vote…

Worldcoin said earlier this year that the WLD unlock rate will drop by 43% on July 24 under existing schedules.It also said 4.9 billion WLD, equal to 49% of the token’s 10 billion total supply, was already unlocked as of Apr. 10, with 3.3…

The CLARITY Act's two biggest obstacles are moving in opposite directions this week. Law enforcement opposition is softening, while the ethics fight over crypto conflicts of interest is sharpening.Before this week, forecasters and…

Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country's history.A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that the total will exceed a quarter trillion dollars in 2026.…

The GENIUS Act's one-year rulemaking deadline lands on July 18, and markets have mostly priced it as a legitimacy milestone for stablecoins.Mike McCluskey, CEO of tx, and Zaheer Ebtikar, chief strategy officer at Plasma, read it as a…

Open Standard's Open USD is trying to make the stablecoin yield fight about distribution before the token is live.The company announced Open USD on June 30 as a stablecoin for global money movement. Its headline feature is a reserve-sharing…

Taiwan has moved stablecoin issuance into a licensing test for supervised financial infrastructure.The Legislative Yuan passed the Virtual Asset Service Act on its third reading on June 30, establishing a dedicated framework for crypto…