Regulations

Circle's fourth quarter earnings tell a story the company would prefer investors understand through the lens of growth: USDC circulation climbed 72% year-over-year to $75.3 billion, reserve income surged 69%, and adjusted EBITDA…

Two regulators converged on the same market from opposite directions in February 2026.The European Securities and Markets Authority warned that derivatives marketed as “perpetual futures” or “perpetual contracts” tied to Bitcoin and…

CME's Cardano futures went live on Feb. 9, and that date may matter more for ETFs than for trading.Under the SEC's new generic listing standards for commodity-based trust shares, one of the clearest fast lanes for a spot crypto ETP is…

European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, runs an institution that trades in certainty, and she does it in a moment that rewards ambiguity.Earlier this week, the story around her took on a familiar European shape: official silence…

Hyperliquid launched a policy center in Washington on Feb. 18, seeded with 1 million HYPE tokens worth roughly $28 million, led by Jake Chervinsky, the crypto lawyer who spent years building the industry's Capitol Hill playbook.The…

At 7:12 a.m. on a random Tuesday in February, an email lands with a subject line that looks harmless enough: “Your tax forms are ready.”For Maya, a part-time designer who bought a little Bitcoin during the 2021 hype, then sold small chunks…

Aave Labs posted a governance proposal on Feb. 12 asking tokenholders to endorse a strategic package that would direct 100% of Aave-branded product revenue to the DAO treasury, formalize brand protection, and center the roadmap on Aave…

The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House backed a Box 3 overhaul that would tax “actual returns,”  including annual price changes in liquid assets like BTC, at a…

The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in.That story still matters. The past week made something else clearer: the legislation is becoming a proxy…

CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOsMost crypto traders barely think about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until something breaks, a lawsuit hits, or a…