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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
The first time I encountered a cryptocurrency confidence scam, it was not in a courtroom or a regulatory filing. It was an email from a reader who had lost their savings to a scheme promising guaranteed returns on a "decentralized investment protocol" that did not exist. The lang
The Securities and Exchange Commission published a brief Federal Register order on Monday that does something markets have been anticipating since January: it formally approves Nasdaq's rule change to list and trade shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust under the ticker IBTC. The o
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division and Division of Clearing and Risk released a 47-page staff guidance document last week that attempts to answer a question regulators have been dodging for years: what exactly can a registered firm do with cry
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission handed down what appears to be a carefully calibrated signal last week: a no-action letter permitting Kraken Derivatives Exchange to operate certain designated contract market functions while the broader regulatory framework for digital as
The conference invitation landed with the quiet authority of a central bank. The Federal Reserve's fifth conference on the international roles of the U.S. dollar, held in July 2026, devoted significant attention to stablecoins and their growing role in international dollar financ
The joint release landed without fanfare. The Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service published final regulations implementing bipartisan tax reporting requirements for 'brokers' in the digital asset space. The effective date is set. The compliance timeline is clear.
When the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it was rescinding its controversial no-deny settlement policy last week, I recognized a fundamental shift in how the agency approaches enforcement against cryptocurrency markets. The policy change, which takes effect immedia
When the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced its CEO Innovation Council Crypto Sprint last week, I recognized a significant shift in how federal regulators approach digital asset oversight. The three-month initiative, running through August 2026, brings together indust
When the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published its proposed final rule on stablecoin activities last week, I found myself examining a document that could fundamentally reshape how traditional banks engage with digital assets. The agency's 250-page proposal establish
