Regulations

Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with Easter recess running through Apr. 13.Senator Cynthia Lummis publicly confirmed the timetable, and Senator Bernie Moreno put the…

Congress has introduced the Digital Asset PARITY Act, a bipartisan discussion draft introduced by Reps. Steven Horsford and Max Miller, who would rewrite Section 1091 to cover “specified assets.”The category explicitly includes actively…

Prediction markets spent years trying to present themselves as smarter, better, and more useful than straight-out gambling.Then sports arrived and did what elections, inflation contracts, and policy wagers never quite managed: it brought…

The stablecoin yield fight has once again consumed the CLARITY Act debate on Capitol Hill, and the cost of that consumption is now measurable.The bill stalled in January when Coinbase objected to its terms, a White House meeting in February…

On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets.Alongside everything else…

For years, the shortest line of attack against Tether was the demand for a full independent audit.The audit never came, and the company absorbed the reputational cost without visible damage to its position. USDT crossed $184 billion in…

This month, Kentucky lawmakers advanced another bill that critics say could make self-custody impossible for hardware wallet manufacturers to deliver without building a backdoor into their products. It comes after passing a bill last year…

The crypto industry finally got the clear lines it spent years demanding from Washington.Six days after the SEC and CFTC unveiled their new crypto framework, the policy is now moving into the formal publication process through the Federal…

The SEC and CFTC just gave crypto its clearest and most straightforward regulatory guidance in years. Most crypto assets will no longer be treated as presumptive securities, and the agencies drew a sharper line between open crypto markets…

The average Bitcoin retail investor who recently discovered crypto might never have considered a stablecoin that pays yield on an idle balance. That fight, buried inside Senate negotiations over the CLARITY Act, is about to matter to them…