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The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions on August 7, 2026, against a network of digital asset exchanges used by the Iranian regime to launder billions of dollars, evade international sanctions, and fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a reminder on August 7, 2026, that sounds administrative but carries real enforcement weight. The Division of Market Oversight and Market Participants Division jointly notified crypto derivatives platforms that they must display cle
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on August 10 that its newly formed Innovation Advisory Committee will hold its inaugural meeting on August 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. The committee's mandate is broad: provide the CFTC with insights on emerging financial techn
The Energy Information Administration's August 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook arrived with a finding that will reshape how policymakers view the intersection of digital assets and the power grid. For the first time, the EIA explicitly identifies cryptocurrency mining as a primary
The speech landed on August 6, 2026, with a title that sounded like standard regulator boilerplate: "Remarks Before the [Conference Name]." But CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig used the platform to deliver something more consequential than another compliance sermon. He argued that
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a civil enforcement action last week that reads like a case study in how crypto fraud scales. Goliath Ventures, a purported digital asset trading platform, and its chief executive officer are accused of operating a $400 million schem
The notice appeared in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, with the bureaucratic title that most investors would skip: "Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change." But beneath that administra
The Federal Reserve's research division released a paper in August that few retail investors will read but that every stablecoin holder should understand. Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2026-055 examines the mechanics of digital asset runs, the conditions that trigger th
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets published a final rule in the Federal Register last week that few investors will read but many will feel. The order approves amended listing standards for MEMX LLC — the upstart exchange backed by a consorti
The document arrived without ceremony. A joint statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, posted on a Friday afternoon, carried none of the drama that accompanies enforcement actions or high-profile litigation. Yet for the
