Regulations

Robinhood has spent the past few years trying to outgrow its meme-stock reputation, and the clearest sign that it is thinking differently now sits far from Menlo Park.In early December, the company said it would buy PT Buana Capital…

On Dec. 9, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency put out a press release with a very direct message for US banks: you are allowed to sit in the middle of crypto trades.In the memorably titled News Release 2025-121, the OCC published…

The Depository Trust Company, the U.S. financial market infrastructure provider that clears and settles securities trades, said the SEC has given it informal approval to move ahead with a tokenization service for some assets it already…

The US Congress is closer than ever to defining federal rules for digital assets, yet the question of whether stablecoins can provide yield has slowed the process more than agency turf battles or token classification.Notably, the House has…

Belarus expanded platform blocking in December, tightening access to exchanges and reinforcing a High-Tech Park perimeter for residents.The move fits a wider access playbook across EMEA and APAC that now uses telecom blocklists, app-store…

Do Kwon faces sentencing in U.S. federal court on Dec. 11, 2025. Prosecutors sought a 12-year term and the defense asked for no more than five, with Judge Paul A. Engelmayer presiding and South Korea charges still pending.The proceeding…

The US equity market is valued at roughly $68 trillion, yet only about $670 million of that value currently exists on-chain in tokenized form.The scale of that gap has become a focal point for policymakers and market participants as…

When European police staged another coordinated sweep against crypto mixers this autumn, most people saw a familiar headline and scrolled on. But every seizure, every frozen server rack, every compressed hard drive pushed into an evidence…

The UK doesn’t pass many one-clause statutes that redraw the map of personal property, but that’s exactly what arrived with Royal Assent on Dec.2.After years of academic papers, Law Commission consultations, and scattered High Court…

On Dec. 2, Citadel Securities filed a 13-page letter with the SEC arguing that decentralized protocols facilitating tokenized US equity trading already meet statutory definitions of exchanges and broker-dealers, and regulators should treat…