Regulation

Vice President JD Vance has reportedly sent a letter to Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei proposing a nuclear negotiation framework, arriving days before Trump's post-midterm deadline on military action. The diplomatic over...

A flaw in draft rules for Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade could have redirected validator deposits to builder accounts. The vulnerability was patched before any funds were lost.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig said autonomous AI agents could soon stake cryptocurrency and execute trades independently, prompting discussion about how regulators should oversee these systems....

Speaking at a Washington forum, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said AI agents could move from executing trades to making their own decisions, raising questions about registration, liability and how regulators identify so...

The SEC has proposed a custody framework for investment advisers and registered funds handling crypto assets, with a 60-day comment period and potential changes to audit and broker-dealer requirements.

The SEC's Division of Examinations has listed tokenization and evolving market infrastructure among risks for its fiscal 2027 examination programme, covering more than 34,000 registrants.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold a public roundtable on Dec. 15 to examine the challenges of round-the-clock derivatives trading, covering overnight trading, tokenization, and infrastructure and staffin...

A new study of 35 jurisdictions argues that tokenization and digital money may matter more than Bitcoin for how governments write the rules.

The bank’s existing crypto service, available since December 2023, now falls under Brazil’s central bank framework. The report said Itaú notified the regulator rather than receiving a separate crypto license.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said U.S. leadership in digital assets could reinforce the dollar's global role, even as Congress remains stalled on market-structure legislation.

Brad Garlinghouse told Ripple Swell in New York that the 2025 stablecoin law has drawn financial institutions into crypto, and said SEC and CFTC rulemaking is filling the gap left by stalled market-structure legislation....

Itaú Unibanco has notified Brazil’s central bank of its crypto trading and custody operations ahead of an Oct. 30 deadline, becoming the first bank to formalize a brokerage under the new framework.

The State Department's PACIFIC initiative will fund cryptocurrency tracing, digital forensics, and beneficial-ownership training across the Pacific Islands as part of a broader $44 million security package.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Ripple's Swell conference that Treasury can coordinate with the SEC and CFTC to fill the regulatory gap left by the Senate's rejection of the CLARITY Act.

Vlad Tenev says the SEC's innovation exemption is a positive step, but longer-term regulatory clarity is needed to attract substantial assets to tokenized markets.

A full-page Wall Street Journal ad funded by the Common Sense Leadership Fund warns public companies about tokenization risks, prompting industry figures to argue that regulated U.S. tokenization does not carry those dan...

The Securities and Futures Commission has allowed round-the-clock trading of ChinaAMC's Hong Kong-dollar and US-dollar digital money-market funds on a licensed virtual-asset platform, under a pilot framework introduced i...

South Korea is considering a fourth postponement of its crypto income tax, with January 2029 emerging as the most probable start date due to missing U.S. tax data.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US is tracking and freezing Iran's crypto holdings, with authorities reportedly preparing to seize around $1 billion in digital assets tied to the IRGC.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said digital assets could reinforce the dollar's global dominance and that Treasury can work with the SEC and CFTC on crypto rules after the Clarity Act's failure.