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Summer of crypto (regs): State of Crypto

Lawmakers are debating taxes, the CFTC put out a prediction market proposal and court cases are heating up. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Regulation

Millions of EU crypto users face exchange cutoff as MiCA deadline hits in days

On July 1, 2026, the temporary permission that lets crypto companies keep operating in Europe while they wait for a proper MiCA license runs out,…
Industry News

SEC’s big swing to clear tokenization path isn’t likely to get resilience of full rule

Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization “innovation” efforts an exemption from securities law isn’t as strong as a full-fledged rule.…
Regulation

SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule

Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization “innovation” efforts an exemption from securities law isn’t as strong as a full-fledged rule.…
Markets

CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals

CFTC staff issued release 9252-26 on Friday, giving designated contract markets a no-action path to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetuals, advancing…
Regulation

'Peirce Out': A Decade of Dissent

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had…
Markets

CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets

The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws against CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges, making…
Infrastructure

SEC targets 20-year-old rule standing between Wall Street and blockchain trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to dismantle a stock-trading rule that has governed Wall Street for two decades. On June 11, the…
DeFi

Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under Dodd-Frank,…
Regulation

Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal to overturn 25-year prison sentence

A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief’s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears to face steep political odds.…