Regulation

Federal regulators are weighing competing proposals from the American Bankers Association and the Blockchain Association regarding customer identification requirements for stablecoin redemptions.

Tomáš Jiříkovský, a primary defendant in a major Czech cryptocurrency-laundering investigation involving a $44 million bitcoin donation, has signaled potential cooperation with authorities.

As tokenized real-world assets scale, financial institutions balance confidentiality, compliance, and public ledgers using a combination of privacy technologies.

A Chainalysis-led international sprint investigated 29,120 cryptocurrency addresses and generated 14,300 leads targeting child sexual abuse material platforms.

The Blockchain Association has filed formal comments asking the SEC and CFTC to establish a joint regulatory framework for equity perpetuals, mirroring existing security futures rules.

The U.S. Treasury Department has broadened economic sanctions to cover Iran's digital asset sector, targeting a $100 million crypto-enabled oil payment network and blocking wallets tied to intelligence ministry hackers.

Cardano's committee vote is in its final week before a Sept. 1 expiry, with delegated representatives and stake pool operators falling short of required thresholds to seat four new members.

The US Treasury has formed a Quantum-Readiness Task Force featuring a dedicated workstream for digital assets and emerging technologies.

The International Monetary Fund's global economic forecast balances rising energy prices and inflation driven by the war in Iran against potential productivity gains from artificial intelligence.

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated a public consultation on draft regulations for spot bitcoin and ethereum exchange-traded funds.

Boston Fed President Susan Collins has indicated that tightening monetary policy could be appropriate if inflation does not show sustained progress toward the 2% target.

Legal filings for Andrew and Tristan Tate state that their claims of immense wealth and crypto holdings were grandiose performances used to promote money-making courses.

The expanded sanctions highlight the US's intensified strategy to curb Iran's economic resilience, impacting global compliance and crypto sectors. The post United States sanctions nearly 60 Iran-linked entities and vesse...

The Hyperliquid Policy Council has asked U.S. regulators to establish a clear framework for classifying perpetual contracts, particularly equity perpetuals.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand is accepting public comments through September 20 on a proposed framework for Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds.

The United States has widened its power to sanction Iran's crypto sector and threatened to eject trading partners from the dollar system, coinciding with a broader debate over alternative assets like Bitcoin and gold.

Outer Bio, a biotech startup co-founded by Michael Polansky with Lady Gaga on its board, has emerged from stealth to keep donated human skin alive for four weeks to train machine learning models.

US prediction markets face increasing legal scrutiny, state enforcement actions, and competitive battles between exchanges over sports contracts and derivatives.

NEAR is rebuilding its security model to defend against future quantum computers, targeting post-quantum validator consensus by the end of 2027.

India plans to issue tokenized corporate bonds worth under 5 billion rupees in September, using a wholesale central bank digital currency and a new DEMAT 2.0 wallet for settlement.