Regulatory developments and legal frameworks for cryptocurrency.
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The SEC's proposal abolishes the seasoning period and public-float thresholds that have kept newly listed and smaller companies out of the shelf-registration regime since 1985. For crypto firms with IPOs in the queue, the rule change matters more than the Clarity Act.
Bitcoin Depot's voluntary Chapter 11 filing on Monday took North America's largest bitcoin ATM fleet offline overnight. A 49 per cent year-on-year revenue collapse, a $3.7 million April hack, and parallel state attorney general lawsuits finally moved faster than the company's cash position.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has demanded that the OCC produce records by June 1 explaining its approval of national trust charters for nine crypto firms including Coinbase, Ripple, Paxos, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity, Crypto.com, Protego, and Stripe's Bridge subsidiary.
The full draft of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act landed shortly after midnight on Tuesday ahead of a markup scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 — and the conflict-of-interest carve-out is the provision likely to decide whether the bill clears the floor.
The European Union's 20th sanctions package against Russia takes effect on May 24, banning EU persons from any transaction with Russian or Belarusian crypto-asset service providers — and, for the first time, with decentralised platforms operating from those jurisdictions.
BlackRock used the last day of the OCC's GENIUS Act comment window to demand the regulator scrap a proposed limit on how much of a stablecoin's reserves can be held in tokenised form. BUIDL backs more than 90 per cent of two of the largest crypto-native dollar tokens.
NYSE Texas filed Rule 7.39 with the SEC on May 5 to allow tokenised versions of Russell 1000 stocks and major-index ETFs to trade alongside their traditional shares. The exchange used a procedural shortcut that made the rule effective on filing.
Aave's 29-page filing argues that briefly-stolen ETH cannot be treated as North Korean property, even when Lazarus Group was the thief — and warns the SDNY restraining order could chill every future DeFi hack recovery.
Senators Cynthia Lummis and Thom Tillis publicly stood behind the stablecoin yield language in the CLARITY Act on Monday after a coalition of five banking trade groups attacked the compromise as inadequate. The next two weeks will decide whether the deal holds.
Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks finalised the language on stablecoin rewards in the CLARITY Act on Friday, ending the months-long deadlock that had killed the bill's momentum. The compromise bans passive yield but preserves activity-based rewards — and Coinbase keeps the revenue stream that mattered most.
Senators voted unanimously on April 30 to bar themselves and their staff from trading on prediction markets, an immediate amendment to Rule 37 introduced by Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno after months of insider-trading concerns over senators wagering on policy outcomes they themselves were shaping.
The CFTC granted Gemini's Olympus subsidiary a Derivatives Clearing Organization licence on April 29, joining the exchange's existing Designated Contract Market designation and giving it the full regulated stack to settle its own futures, options and prediction markets in-house.
Patrick Witt, Trump's new digital-assets adviser, told the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas that the White House is preparing a 'big announcement' on the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve within weeks — without specifying what it will contain.
The CFTC handed Gemini's clearing affiliate a Derivatives Clearing Organization licence, giving the Winklevoss-run exchange the right to clear and settle every futures, options and prediction-market trade it routes through its US marketplace in house.
Stablecoin issuer Agora filed for a national trust bank charter with the OCC on April 24, racing for federal oversight while traditional banks pressure Congress to delay the underlying legislation.
Canada's Spring Economic Update proposes a federal blanket ban on all 4,000 cryptocurrency ATMs nationwide, citing CAD 704 million in fraud losses last year and calling the machines a 'primary method' for scammers to defraud victims.
India's Reserve Bank has begun routing portions of the country's $80 billion welfare programme through the digital rupee in ten state-level pilots, while urging the federal government to put a BRICS-wide CBDC interoperability proposal on the agenda of the bloc's 2026 summit.
A coordinated international operation led by Dubai Police has dismantled nine cryptocurrency investment scam centres and arrested at least 276 people, with three defendants now facing federal wire fraud and money laundering charges in the Southern District of California.
Paul Atkins, the first sitting SEC chair to address a Bitcoin conference, used Las Vegas to confirm a 12-to-36-month sandbox for on-chain securities issuance and to declare the agency's enforcement-driven era over.
Israel's Capital Market Authority approved BILS, a shekel-pegged stablecoin built on Solana by licensed brokerage Bits of Gold, making it the first regulated fiat-backed token in the Middle East.
