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A federal appeals court has ruled 2-1 that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts state gambling laws, granting the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over prediction market platforms and setting up a potential Supreme Court challenge.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed Reg Crypto rulemaking — featuring startup exemptions, a $75 million fundraising pathway, and an investment contract safe harbour — has reached the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, putting it one step from formal publication.
The most ambitious US digital asset legislation in a decade has stalled in the Senate amid irreconcilable disputes between crypto firms, banks, regulators, and structural critics over stablecoin economics.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission jointly released an interpretive framework classifying digital assets into five discrete categories, resolving the jurisdictional ambiguity that has shaped US crypto enforcement for more than ten years.
Britain's Foreign Office has designated Xinbi—a Chinese-language crypto marketplace that processed $24.2 billion in illicit transactions—marking the first government-level sanctions action against the infrastructure underpinning Southeast Asia's pig-butchering scam industry.
The Treasury Department has issued an 87-page notice of proposed rulemaking establishing how state-level stablecoin regimes can qualify as 'substantially similar' to the federal framework under America's first crypto law.
The world's largest stablecoin issuer has hired Big Four firm KPMG to conduct a comprehensive audit of USDT's reserve backing, moving beyond the periodic attestations that have drawn years of criticism from regulators and market participants.
Beijing's Cyberspace Administration has compelled Apple to pull Bitchat, the decentralised messaging application linked to Block CEO Jack Dorsey, from the Chinese App Store after the Bluetooth-based tool gained prominence during protests across multiple countries.
Prediction market platform Kalshi has appointed Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter as a policy adviser, balancing its earlier hire of Donald Trump Jr., as the industry faces simultaneous legal challenges from US states and the federal government.
Cambodia's National Assembly has unanimously approved the country's first law specifically targeting online scam compounds, imposing prison sentences of up to 20 years for ringleaders involved in human trafficking and torture alongside their fraud operations.
The SEC faced a March 27, 2026, deadline for final decisions on 91 pending cryptocurrency ETF applications covering 24 different tokens.
Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks reached a bipartisan compromise on stablecoin yield on March 20, 2026, clearing a major obstacle to CLARITY Act passage.
The SEC and CFTC issued joint interpretive guidance on March 17, 2026, classifying 16 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum as digital commodities.
The US Treasury Department added newly seized Bitcoin from criminal proceedings to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in February 2026.
The US Treasury's OFAC designated Zedcex Exchange Ltd and Zedxion Exchange Ltd on January 30, 2026, marking the first-ever sanctions action against a crypto exchange.
Kraken Financial became the first digital asset bank to receive a Federal Reserve master account from the Kansas City Fed, granting direct access to Fedwire.
Texas launched its state cryptocurrency reserve in December 2025 with a $5 million initial Bitcoin purchase, becoming the first US state to fund such a reserve.
REX-Osprey launched the first US-listed spot ETFs for Dogecoin and XRP in December 2025, accelerating institutional access to alternative cryptocurrencies.
Multiple spot Solana ETFs launched in late November 2025, marking the first non-Bitcoin/Ethereum spot crypto ETFs in the U.S.
President Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao on October 23, 2025, more than a year after his release from a four-month federal sentence for Bank Secrecy Act violations.
