Regulations

Senate negotiations over the landmark CLARITY Act are producing fresh concessions, but little evidence that the parties are moving closer to a deal.Democrats are moving on regulatory appointments and ethics, while law-enforcement groups…

Senate negotiators on the CLARITY Act have run into a condition several Democrats are treating as essential: they want ethics language limiting how much senior officials, including the president and vice president, can profit from digital…

A federal judge has temporarily barred Minnesota from enforcing its new prediction-market felony law against federally regulated exchanges designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as contract markets, including Kalshi and…

Maine's new virtual-currency unclaimed-property rules take effect July 29 with a five-year dormancy clock, while the State Treasurer's current reporting manual still shows three years. The mismatch leaves businesses that hold customer…

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub Online and two former directors, alleging that the crypto exchange submitted daily net-capital reports, known as Form DA 1, that failed to show the…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has warned that crypto vaults may face federal securities-law scrutiny when people control how assets earn yield.Morpho Vault V2 offers a clear case study because its architecture divides the same powers…

Section 20216 of the latest CLARITY draft states that a self-custodied digital asset cannot become abandoned, unclaimed, or forfeited. It also cannot become subject to adverse possession or finder's title solely because its owner has not…

The European Union has sanctioned HTX, widening a Russia crackdown that has already affected counterparties beyond the exchange.The bloc placed Huobi Global S.A., the entity behind HTX, under a transaction ban in its 21st sanctions package…

Galaxy Digital said the Senate has four working days to save the CLARITY Act, as it cut passage odds to 30%.In a July 24 note to clients, the crypto investment firm lowered its estimate for CLARITY Act chances this year from 50%, saying…

The SEC will pay $150,000 in legal fees and review how it preserves records as part of a July 22 settlement ending a Coinbase-backed public-records lawsuit.History Associates, the company working with Coinbase, filed the lawsuit on June 27,…