Regulations

The GENIUS Act's one-year rulemaking deadline lands on July 18, and markets have mostly priced it as a legitimacy milestone for stablecoins.Mike McCluskey, CEO of tx, and Zaheer Ebtikar, chief strategy officer at Plasma, read it as a…

Open Standard's Open USD is trying to make the stablecoin yield fight about distribution before the token is live.The company announced Open USD on June 30 as a stablecoin for global money movement. Its headline feature is a reserve-sharing…

Taiwan has moved stablecoin issuance into a licensing test for supervised financial infrastructure.The Legislative Yuan passed the Virtual Asset Service Act on its third reading on June 30, establishing a dedicated framework for crypto…

On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, rejecting the statutory limits that previously allowed FTC commissioners to be…

Europe's crypto market resets on July 1, when MiCA's transitional period ends and unauthorized exchanges lose the legal right to operate in the EU.Whether the deadline holds depends on the app stores on European phones.Under the ESMA's June…

Australia’s July 1 AML/CTF deadline has turned regulated crypto transfers into a data workflow for exchanges and other virtual asset service providers.Users can still hold and move crypto in self-custody. The friction begins when funds pass…

President Donald Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure was filed with the Office of Government Ethics on June 29 and certified on June 30, arriving as the CLARITY Act stalls over whether elected officials and their families should be…

US regulators have started the compliance clock for stablecoin issuers, with a proposed customer-identification rule that would make direct minting, redemption, and account relationships look more like bank onboarding.The bigger fight…

JPMorgan has warned that Congress could create new gaps in financial oversight if it moves too quickly to write new rules for the crypto industry.The warning comes as Senate leaders try to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a…

MiCA's July 1 deadline feels as if it were a Europe-wide exchange shutdown. For UK traders, the direct rulebook remains the UK's FCA-led regime; the operational risk is that an exchange account may be classified through a different country,…