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The UK is finalising a comprehensive cryptoasset regime under the Financial Services and Markets Act that draws a sharp line between genuinely decentralised DeFi and protocols with identifiable controlling entities.
New CEO Stephen Gregory is steering the exchange beyond spot crypto trading into prediction markets and derivatives after its US market share collapsed from 20 per cent to almost nothing following a $4.3 billion federal penalty and years of regulatory turmoil.
Under Chair Paul Atkins and Crypto Task Force head Hester Peirce, the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped or settled numerous enforcement actions from the prior administration by mid-2025.
The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation became fully enforceable on December 30, 2024, establishing the world's first comprehensive regulatory framework for cryptocurrency.
