SEC, CFTC, Congress, OCC, and the global agencies shaping crypto law. Token classifications, bank charters, exchange enforcement, and the bills that decide whether a protocol can ship.
The US Senate passed the GENIUS Act 68-30, creating America's first federal stablecoin regulatory framework. 68 senators just decided the future of USDC, Tether, and every dollar-pegged token in crypto.
Trump Media's Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here's why the market murdered them before launch.
Trump's new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing the OCC of illegally granting national trust bank charters to nine crypto giants including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, and Paxos — and demanding all communications between OCC officials and the Trump family by June 1.
Bitcoin Depot, once the dominant force in Bitcoin ATMs with 9,000 machines across North America, filed Chapter 11 today and pulled the plug on its entire network. The era of the crypto ATM is ending — and regulators killed it.
CME Group and ICE — the corporate parents of the world's biggest futures and stock exchanges — just told the CFTC to regulate Hyperliquid out of existence. HYPE dropped 9%. Arthur Hayes said to get bent.
Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund CEO told CoinDesk he doesn't recall selling any BTC. Arkham Intelligence's on-chain data shows $1 billion in outflows since mid-2025. Someone is wrong — and the blockchain doesn't lie.
Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.
Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.
Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.
The most comprehensive crypto regulation in US history goes to a Senate committee vote Thursday. Republicans left out the one clause that would stop senior government officials from personally profiting off the industry they're regulating. Democrats say no ethics, no votes.
The world's largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.
CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.
Kraken parent Payward acquired Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600M on May 7, then filed for a federal OCC trust charter on May 8. That's $2.65 billion in acquisitions and a banking license application in a single year. Here's the empire they're building.
In 30 days, Tether silently blacklisted 371 wallets and froze $515 million in USDT across Tron and Ethereum — no court order required. That's 40% of everything they froze in all of 2025, done in a single month. Here's how the kill switch works, who's using it, and what it means for crypto.
Kraken's parent Payward just sued its former custodian Etana for misappropriating $25 million in client funds in what it calls a 'Ponzi-like' scheme. Etana allegedly stalled withdrawals with fake reconciliation issues while plugging holes with new deposits.
The FBI coordinated with Dubai Police and Thai authorities to bust 276 people across 9 pig butchering scam centers — the same fraud method that put Trump's World Liberty Financial in headlines last week.
The CLARITY Act stablecoin yield compromise bans 'hold and earn' stablecoin rewards in the US. Coinbase backed the deal anyway. Here's the multi-billion dollar calculation behind that decision.
Gemini quietly assembled the full CFTC regulatory stack — a DCM license to list derivatives and a DCO license to clear them in-house. No other purely crypto-native exchange has pulled this off. Futures, perps, and prediction markets are next.
The 175-year-old money transfer giant confirmed its USDPT stablecoin launches on Solana in May — replacing SWIFT for global agent settlements. The first real-world partner went live this week.
Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures on April 27 — and Polymarket panicked and launched theirs first to beat them. The race to own America's $100B crypto derivatives market is on.
Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche take the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas today — the nation's top law enforcement officials declaring 'Code is Free Speech' at the world's biggest Bitcoin event.
Morgan Stanley's new MSNXX Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio quietly makes the $200B wealth manager the preferred reserve custodian for the entire stablecoin industry under the GENIUS Act.
The sitting U.S. president is meeting the top 297 holders of his personal memecoin at Mar-a-Lago today — while the token sits 96% below its all-time high and Senate Democrats launch a formal investigation.
U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Van Dyke is the first person charged with using classified military intelligence to insider-trade on a crypto prediction market. The DOJ and CFTC both came for him.
Wisconsin's AG filed two separate lawsuits on April 23 targeting Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Crypto.com — using the platforms' own marketing copy against them in a case that could reach the Supreme Court.
GraniteShares launches the first-ever triple-leveraged XRP ETFs on Nasdaq April 23. One bad day wipes your position completely.
Britain's financial watchdog hit eight London crypto shops in a single day — marking the country's first-ever coordinated crackdown on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading.
April 2026 is already the worst month for crypto hacks since February 2025. $606 million gone in 18 days. 3.7x the entire first quarter. Today, Congress is holding hearings. Here's what broke.
Kevin Warsh — Trump's pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here's what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.
Payward's acquisition of Bitnomial hands Kraken a decade-long regulatory moat: the only full-stack CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform in America. No one else has all three licenses.
Operation Atlantic, a joint US-UK-Canada law enforcement strike, froze $12M and traced $45M in crypto approval phishing fraud across 30+ countries. Here's what that means for the industry.
41 violent crypto kidnappings in 2026. France now has the worst crypto ransom attack rate in the world, and the interior ministry just admitted they've lost control.
Grinex — the sanctions-dodging successor to Russia's notorious Garantex — shut down after a $13M hack and blamed 'Western special services.' The irony is too rich.
The DOJ just opened compensation claims for the biggest crypto fraud in history. The math is brutal: $40 million recovered, $4 billion stolen, Cryptoqueen still on the run.
The PARITY Act gives stablecoins a federal de minimis tax exemption while explicitly leaving Bitcoin behind. Bitcoin Policy Institute calls it a bill that 'picks winners and losers.' Coinbase earned $1.35B in stablecoin revenue last year — make of that what you will.
The TRUMP token snapshot deadline is today. Whales have pumped $2.7M in 48 hours to buy their way into a presidential dinner. The Senate wants answers. And buried in the fine print: Trump 'may not be able to attend.'
Brian Armstrong killed the CLARITY Act in January, then blocked it again in February. Today the Senate returned from Easter recess, and Armstrong is suddenly its biggest cheerleader. Here's what changed, and why the next 3 weeks decide whether US crypto law happens in 2026 or not at all.
SpaceX filed for the largest IPO in history at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Bitget just launched preSPAX, a tokenized synthetic token giving retail crypto investors exposure before the NYSE opens its doors.
Hong Kong granted its first two stablecoin licenses to HSBC and a Standard Chartered–Animoca joint venture — picking just 2 from 36 applicants. The era of bank-issued stablecoins is here.
World Liberty Financial used nearly 5 billion WLFI tokens as collateral to borrow $75M from Dolomite, a platform co-founded by WLFI's own CTO. The token is now at an all-time low, down 82% from peak.
Japan's cabinet approved a landmark bill reclassifying crypto as financial instruments under the FIEA, bringing insider trading bans, mandatory disclosures, and 10-year prison sentences to the world's third-largest economy.
Treasury and FinCEN dropped a joint proposed rule under the GENIUS Act that forces stablecoin issuers to implement full AML programs, freeze bad transactions, and hire compliance officers — by January 2027.
SEC Chair Atkins confirms 'Reg Crypto' has cleared internal review and is at the White House — the first U.S. crypto-specific fundraising framework ever, with a $5M startup exemption and $75M/year cap.
Australia's parliament passed the Digital Assets Framework Bill, the country's first comprehensive crypto licensing law. Exchanges and custodians must now get licensed like brokers. Here's what it means for jobs.
ZachXBT just published a damning thread showing Circle had the power to freeze $232M in stolen Drift Protocol funds — during business hours, over 6 hours — and chose not to. It's part of a pattern spanning $420M across 15 cases since 2022.
The CFTC settled with Nishad Singh — FTX's ex-engineering chief who built the backdoor that let Alameda silently drain billions in customer funds. The case is closed. The industry can stop looking over its shoulder. Almost.
Coinbase received conditional OCC approval for a national trust charter — making America's biggest crypto exchange a federally regulated custodian. This is the regulatory milestone the industry has chased for a decade.
The DOJ just unsealed charges against 10 crypto executives in a massive wash trading sting called Operation Token Mirrors. The FBI built its own Ethereum token — NexFundAI — to bait them. Here's the full breakdown and what it means for the industry.