Regulation

John Thune filed cloture during August recess, forcing a 15 September test vote on the crypto market structure bill. Republicans need seven Democrats to cross over just to open the floor.

The rule creates two registration exemptions, a conditional safe harbor once managerial effort ends, and preempts state securities registration. Comment window runs 60 days.

The KCSC treated Polymarket's Korea-specific markets as evidence the platform targeted domestic users. Removing Korean-language support in July did not save it.

The FMA said the exchange filed a mandatory white paper less than 20 working days before publication and ran marketing without the disclosures MiCA requires.

The exchange answered a Kremlin investigator with the passport scan, address and phone number of a customer who had sent $700 to Ukrainian military fundraisers. He has been in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for almost two years.

The White House warned the proposal could disrupt CLARITY Act negotiations, and SIFMA lobbied against the parallel tokenisation exemption that was due to launch alongside it.

The Sunday freeze completes a phased seventeen-day cutoff that already caught five smaller venues. Any transfer to a blocked platform trips Binance's compliance queue and can lock the sending wallet.

The Standard Chartered-backed issuer put HKDAP into beta on Wednesday, with HashKey Exchange and OSL Group cleared to mint and redeem for professional investors only.

The order invokes Section 8a(9) emergency powers and warns a state shutdown could force liquidation of federally regulated bitcoin-price contracts. Chair Michael Selig is now openly disputing state jurisdiction over prediction markets.

Approval opens a comment period on Paul Atkins's three-track proposal: a startup exemption, a fundraising exemption, and a safe harbor that ends investment-contract treatment once network development is complete. Compliance-relevant adoption is a 2027 story.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority cleared Coinbase Onchain SPV Ltd. to issue certificates backed by real Apple shares, with dividends and voting rights routed through to wallet holders.

The Central Bank's Resolution 584, published on 7 August, takes effect in January and applies to any transfer heading to a self-custody wallet or foreign exchange. Cumulative daily volume counts, not just single tickets.

The Senate reserved Monday's roll call for the continuing resolution. Majority Leader Thune now only says he hopes to begin consideration of the bill before the August 8 recess.

Majority Leader John Thune said the crypto market-structure bill wouldn't reach the floor before the August 7 recess. Galaxy's Alex Thorn set the odds of 2026 passage at 30 per cent, down from 50 last month.

The three-exchange rule change removes the requirement that commodity-based trusts track an index and lets them run active strategies, opening the door to covered-call and premium-income products.

CME launched ADA futures on 9 February; the six-month observation period closes on 9 August. Grayscale, Bitwise and four other filers can then activate spot Cardano ETF applications with an October decision deadline.

Two IRGC-linked entities and eight shadow-fleet tankers were designated on 29 July, cutting the digital rail Tehran opened in May to charge Strait of Hormuz tolls in bitcoin and USDT.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says onchain vaults may fall inside US securities law. Europe wrote that answer a year ago: curators making allocation calls over pooled deposits are asset managers, and MiCA already says so.

The National Bank of Hungary handed Budapest-based CoinCash the country's first MiCA authorisation the same week, letting a market the previous government had almost emptied begin to reopen.

Decree 284/2026 puts individual penalties on retail investors for the first time and takes effect on 1 September, hardening a pilot regime that until now had no consequences attached.