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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 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 envelope arrived on my desk with the kind of bureaucratic understatement that only the Internal Revenue Service can achieve—a single-page notice, dense with regulatory language, announcing what might be the most significant operational change in digital-asset tax compliance s
The conference room at Treasury felt different that morning. Not the hushed urgency of a financial crisis, nor the bureaucratic routine of a typical briefing. Something in between—a sense that the document being unsealed carried weight beyond its page count.
The envelope arrived in January with the understated urgency that government documents carry. Inside was my first Form 1099-DA from the exchange where I had sold some Bitcoin the previous year. The form listed gross proceeds, cost basis, and the gain I would
