Regulatory developments, legal frameworks, and government actions affecting cryptocurrency.
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Treasury named the Chinese-language marketplace along with SafeW, the encrypted messenger Xinbi moved onto in 2025, and Anwen, which built its XinbiPay wallet. OFAC puts the platform's lifetime flow above $24 billion.
Roman Ż. is accused of taking PLN 7.8 million from customer accounts by altering the exchange's own records. The wider case now covers PLN 350 million and more than 3,600 complaints.
Cloture takes 60 votes and Republicans hold 53. The provision holding the bill up is not market structure but an ethics ban on officials and their spouses issuing tokens.
The $560,000 in confiscated cryptocurrency is the smaller half of the operation. The FBI also came away with information on thousands of people who tried to give.
The complaint says the blacklist followed an informal request from a Homeland Security Investigations agent in October. The seizure warrant arrived in February, and told Tether to burn the tokens and mint replacements.
The prohibition sits in the same consultation that would let a handful of foreign-issued tokens carry Singapore's regulatory label. Comments close on 16 October.
Beijing blocked the communiqué over language on trade surpluses, not crypto. The digital asset commitments went out anyway, carrying nineteen names and the chair's.
The 421-page proposal lets share registers run on blockchains and asks whether wallet addresses can replace postal ones. Comments close 60 days after Federal Register publication, and Hester Peirce will have left the Commission before they are read.
The Securities and Futures Commission listed SBCFX and three related Star Bridge entities on 28 August. Around 3,000 retail traders had already been liquidated on London gold, and their margin was posted in Tether, which is the part that may not come back.
A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel held that Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets rather than swaps, directly contradicting the Third Circuit's April decision. The CFTC says only the Supreme Court can settle it now.
The rewrite starts a fresh rulemaking after the agency withdrew its 2023 safeguarding proposal. Until then, US institutional crypto custody runs on a staff letter with no legal force.
OFAC's digital assets determination sits alongside four others under Executive Order 13902, and landed with nearly 60 designations including a UAE-based broker Treasury says moved over $100 million in crypto for the Qods Force.
The comment letter is the clearest signal yet that Hyperliquid intends to be regulated in the United States rather than merely referenced by policymakers. President Trump named the platform at an 18 August press conference.
None of them ever signed up for Binance. A Florida judge sent them to arbitration anyway. On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit found the district court had 'misread the complaints' and freed the plaintiffs to sue in federal court.
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.
