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How the rules for digital assets are being written: market-structure bills, stablecoin law, and what the SEC and CFTC are doing in the meantime.
Western Union's May launch of USDPT signals that traditional financial institutions are betting on stablecoin infrastructure — and that bet has real regulatory and competitive implications for the US market.
Western Union's planned May launch of its USDPT stablecoin reveals how much the regulatory environment has shifted — and how much still needs to be settled before traditional financial firms can fully commit to digital dollars.
A federal-versus-state showdown over prediction market oversight is forcing a long-overdue answer to a foundational question: who actually has authority over event-based contracts in the United States?
The CFTC is suing states to stop them from blocking prediction markets, and the legal outcome could redraw how decentralized financial platforms are regulated across the entire country.
The CFTC is now suing New York to block state-level crackdowns on prediction markets, escalating a federal-versus-state jurisdictional fight that could reshape who governs crypto-adjacent financial products.
A senior US military official framing Bitcoin as an instrument of geopolitical power marks a meaningful shift in how Washington's national security apparatus views crypto.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in nearly $1 billion in a single week, the strongest inflow since mid-January, underscoring how the SEC's approval framework has reshaped institutional access to crypto.
Rep. Sheri Biggs disclosed a second IBIT purchase worth up to $250,000, reviving serious questions about whether lawmakers with crypto skin in the game should be shaping crypto policy.
Circle faces a class action over the $280M Drift Protocol hack while the Clarity Act's stablecoin yield provisions hit a legislative wall — two separate blows landing on U.S. crypto policy in the same week.
As South Korea moves to test blockchain-based government deposit tokens, the US still lacks a coherent digital asset framework — and the gap is starting to matter.
Senator Thom Tillis is preparing to publicly share a proposed agreement aimed at resolving the ongoing clash between the crypto industry and banks over Senate digital asset legislation.
U.S. lawmakers are back at the table on crypto's most important piece of pending legislation, and stablecoin rewards have become the unexpected fault line.
The CLARITY Act — Congress's most ambitious attempt to establish a definitive SEC/CFTC jurisdictional framework for digital assets — has cleared key committee hurdles and is building bipartisan momentum in 2026. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, once among its most vocal critics, has publicly shifted to support the legislation after key amendments addressed his core concerns. Whether the bill can clear the full legislative gauntlet this month remains an open question, but the political winds are more favorable than they've ever been.
A joint government-industry crackdown traced $45 million in suspected fraud proceeds and froze $12 million — a new enforcement model that could reshape how crypto businesses handle compliance.
TD Cowen analysts say the White House stablecoin report is unlikely to clear the legislative obstacles blocking a crypto bill, and may actually harden opposition in Congress.
The U.S. Treasury is drafting rules requiring stablecoin issuers to police illicit transactions like traditional financial institutions. It's a regulatory milestone that reframes stablecoins from crypto curiosities into actual financial infrastructure—which is exactly what makes it so consequential.
Asian regulators are shifting from company-level penalties to holding individual senior leaders accountable for crypto violations, forcing executives to rethink governance and insurance. The trend reveals a regulatory maturation: authorities no longer see crypto as a fringe novelty, but as a financial system where personal responsibility matters.
The SEC has submitted its crypto safe harbor proposal to the White House for review, a procedural step that typically precedes public release within weeks. This isn't regulatory theater—it's a concrete signal that Washington is finally building a framework for on-chain infrastructure to exist legally.
South Korea's ruling party is moving stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets into existing financial frameworks rather than creating new crypto-specific rules — and proposing to ban yield-bearing stablecoins entirely. It's a approach that could influence how other major economies handle the same questions.
Rwanda's central bank doubled down on its prohibition against crypto trading in the Rwandan franc after Bybit launched peer-to-peer support for the currency, exposing the gap between regulatory declarations and the practical impossibility of enforcing them.
Indonesian authorities convicted three terrorism financiers using onchain transaction data, marking a turning point where crypto's transparency—not its anonymity—proved decisive in law enforcement. The case shows how blockchain forensics are becoming standard investigative tools, even as they complicate crypto's original privacy narrative.
The International Monetary Fund released a report warning that tokenization could import crypto market volatility into global financial infrastructure through automated systems and smart contracts. The warning reveals a legitimate structural tension between legacy finance's settlement times and blockchain's instantaneous execution.
The International Monetary Fund warned that tokenized finance could amplify market crises by eliminating settlement delays that usually give regulators time to intervene. The concern isn't about crypto's volatility — it's about speed becoming a systemic risk.
The International Monetary Fund warned that tokenized settlement could amplify financial crises by removing the time buffers regulators rely on to intervene. The analysis reveals a deeper tension: instant settlement is efficient until it isn't, and by then there's nowhere left to hide.