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There is a moment in every financial bubble when the grown-ups arrive with spreadsheets. For Dogecoin, that moment came this week when Bitnomial Exchange filed a self-certification with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to list Dogecoin perpetual futures. A memecoin born f
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a Request for Comment on August 12, 2026, to fulfill its obligation under section 9(a) of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act — the GENIUS Act. The request initiates a 90-day public comment period th
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection announced on August 12, 2026, a new initiative to strengthen cybersecurity across the digital asset industry by providing timely, actionable threat intelligence to exchanges, cust
The Securities and Exchange Commission published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on August 21, 2026, that would create the first tailored offering regime for crypto asset investment contracts. The proposal marks a significant evolution in the commission's approach to digi
The Federal Reserve Board announced on August 15, 2026, that it would sunset its Novel Activities Supervision Program and return oversight of banks' crypto and fintech activities to the standard supervisory process. The announcement is less dramatic than it sounds — the Fed is no
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on August 19, 2026, that it had resolved enforcement actions against Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, for their roles in the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency fraud scheme that
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
