Regulations

On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, rejecting the statutory limits that previously allowed FTC commissioners to be…

Europe's crypto market resets on July 1, when MiCA's transitional period ends and unauthorized exchanges lose the legal right to operate in the EU.Whether the deadline holds depends on the app stores on European phones.Under the ESMA's June…

Australia’s July 1 AML/CTF deadline has turned regulated crypto transfers into a data workflow for exchanges and other virtual asset service providers.Users can still hold and move crypto in self-custody. The friction begins when funds pass…

President Donald Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure was filed with the Office of Government Ethics on June 29 and certified on June 30, arriving as the CLARITY Act stalls over whether elected officials and their families should be…

US regulators have started the compliance clock for stablecoin issuers, with a proposed customer-identification rule that would make direct minting, redemption, and account relationships look more like bank onboarding.The bigger fight…

JPMorgan has warned that Congress could create new gaps in financial oversight if it moves too quickly to write new rules for the crypto industry.The warning comes as Senate leaders try to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a…

MiCA's July 1 deadline feels as if it were a Europe-wide exchange shutdown. For UK traders, the direct rulebook remains the UK's FCA-led regime; the operational risk is that an exchange account may be classified through a different country,…

Congress is moving to fix how the US tax code treats crypto mining and staking rewards, and for validators and their institutional clients, the fix is long overdue.H.R. 9175, the Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act, would let miners and…

Illinois just became the first state to tax crypto by the transaction. The new 0.2% levy hits nearly every trade, transfer, or custody service an exchange runs for an Illinois resident, and it takes effect January 1, 2027. Governor JB…

Ripple secured preliminary approval as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, on June 23. The approval was delivered as a “Green Light Letter,” which the company is pairing with the EMI license it…