Regulations

On July 22, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that some crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under federal securities laws.According to her, the regulatory risk depends on how the products are structured and who…

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart argued that the CLARITY Act should carry virtually no direct effect on Bitcoin's price.In his view, Bitcoin already holds the infrastructure the bill is trying to build for the rest of the industry:…

On July 22, US Senate Republicans released an updated version of the CLARITY Act, moving one of Washington’s most consequential cryptocurrency bills back toward a potential floor vote.The updated text follows weeks of negotiations and seeks…

OKX added Andrew Cuomo to its board of directors this month, framing it as a natural progression from two years of him advising the company. Cuomo also co-chairs a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the…

When Celsius collapsed, its Earn customers learned that the crypto in their accounts belonged to the bankruptcy estate, not to them. Sen. Cynthia Lummis cast the CLARITY Act as a fix on July 20, boiling its promise down to four words.“Your…

President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to proposed ethics restrictions tied to sweeping US cryptocurrency legislation, addressing one of the biggest obstacles in months of negotiations and shifting the next decision to Senate…

France's gambling regulator ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, the crypto prediction-market platform, escalating beyond a transaction geofence that it said had been circumvented in practice.The Autorité…

The UK's designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group.Under the…

Trump Media is turning Truth Social posts into a feed for traders, and prediction markets now face a timing problem.The issue is what happens after a post becomes public but before most users can see, read, and act on it.On July 17, the…

Washington just gave one of the world's largest digital currencies a more official place in the US financial system.On July 10, Circle won final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a national trust bank under…