Regulations

The era of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web wallet is over.In 2025, the center of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency economy shifted decisively away from the volatility of the original cryptocurrency and toward a dense,…

Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion in annualized trading volume.The…

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for…

The US crypto industry has launched a unified push for Congress to pass federal market-structure legislation, known as the “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” (H.R. 3633).The legislation is viewed by industry proponents as the…

Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama stood at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 5 and declared 2026 a “digital year,” framing traditional exchanges as the primary gateway for investors to access cryptoassets and ETF-like products.As…

Washington is about to take a serious swing at crypto’s most stubborn problem: who, exactly, is supposed to police the market when a token trades like a commodity, is sold like a security, and moves through software that insists it isn’t a…

Guest Contributor Shane Neagle Editor In Chief • The Tokenist Between the end of 2025 and up to July 2026, the European Union’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) regulation will go into full effect. Specifically, crypto exchanges,…

Bitwise's year-end barrage of ETF paperwork should have been a perfect spark for “alt season.” On Dec. 30, the issuer filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch 11 single-token “strategy” ETFs tied to Aave, Uniswap,…

In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure.Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year…

If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement.Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and…