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FinCEN and OFAC jointly proposed rules that would treat permitted stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act for the first time, imposing anti-money laundering programmes, suspicious activity reporting, and sanctions compliance obligations.
Despite Coinbase's chief legal officer declaring a deal was '48 hours away' in early April, the crypto market structure bill remains stuck as DeFi definitions and presidential conflicts of interest complicate negotiations.
The SEC's sweeping Regulation Crypto Assets framework — covering startup exemptions, fundraising relief, and an investment contract safe harbour — is now at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the final gate before public comment.
The FDIC board voted on 7 April to advance a comprehensive prudential framework governing how federally supervised banks can issue, back, and redeem payment stablecoins, including a two-business-day redemption requirement.
A joint enforcement initiative led by the US Secret Service and UK National Crime Agency targets organised crypto fraud schemes that have drained billions through approval phishing since 2021.
The state's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation has begun accepting licence applications under DFAL, the most comprehensive state-level crypto regulatory framework in the United States.
Japan's Financial Services Agency will reclassify 105 cryptocurrencies as financial products under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, slashing the maximum tax rate from 55 percent to a flat 20 percent while imposing insider trading prohibitions.
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.
