The SEC Is Redrawing Who Can Hold Crypto for Investors
The SEC has proposed a new crypto custody framework that could let advisers hold certain client assets themselves and use state trust companies, reshaping who controls institutional crypto keys.
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Coinbase Is Building the Entire Derivatives Market Under One Roof
Coinbase now controls a regulated US derivatives exchange, futures broker and clearinghouse, showing how crypto companies are rebuilding the market infrastructure traditional finance normally splits across several institutions.
UK Crypto Registration Is Becoming Full Financial Authorisation
The FCA has opened its crypto authorisation gateway, ending an era where AML registration was often mistaken for full financial regulation in the UK.
Brazil Is Closing a Stablecoin Shortcut for Cross-Border Payments
Brazil’s October eFX rules block stablecoins from one key settlement leg, showing how regulators are moving beyond the user payment and into the infrastructure behind it.
Perpetual Futures Are Escaping Crypto
Kalshi and Coinbase want to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to U.S. stocks, turning a market structure built around 24/7 trading into a mainstream finance product.
A New U.S. Bank Is Being Built Around Blockchain From Day One
OpenReserve is trying to build deposits, lending, stablecoins and settlement around blockchain from the start, testing what a genuinely onchain bank could look like.
Australia Is About to Force Crypto Platforms Into Licensing
ASIC’s September deadline ends a major transition period for digital-asset firms, while Australia prepares a broader licensing regime for crypto platforms in 2027.
SEC Rewrite Could Bring Stock Ownership Onchain
The SEC is modernizing transfer-agent rules for blockchain securities, tackling the legal ownership records that tokenized-stock trading cannot solve alone.
Prediction Markets Have an Insider-Trading Problem
A CFTC case involving White House speech information shows why prediction markets need clearer boundaries between informed trading and illegal access.
The UK Is Rethinking How Hard It Should Restrict Stablecoins
The Bank of England has dropped individual stablecoin holding limits as the UK shifts from preventing rapid adoption toward making regulated digital money usable at scale.
SEC’s Crypto Safe Harbor Tests A New Way To Regulate Tokens
The SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets creates new token fundraising exemptions and a safe harbor for when investment-contract obligations can end.
GENIUS Act Rules Will Decide How U.S. Stablecoins Work
Treasury’s latest GENIUS Act proposal moves U.S. stablecoin regulation from legislation into implementation, defining who can issue and sell digital dollars.
Hong Kong’s Stablecoin Test Moves Into Real Payments
Hong Kong’s first regulated HKD stablecoins are moving toward payments and settlement, testing whether local-currency tokens can compete with digital dollars.
Prediction Markets Face a New Trust Problem
New York is scrutinizing prediction-market marketing as Kalshi and Polymarket face a bigger test over consumer protection, insider information and gambling rules.
Greece Exposes Europe’s Crypto Tax Gap
Greece plans to tax crypto gains at 15%, but foreign platforms, private wallets, fragmented records, and different national rules reveal a wider European reporting problem.