Regulation

Australias Financial Watchdog Offers Exemptions to Stablecoin Intermediaries
Australias Financial Watchdog Offers Exemptions to Stablecoin Intermediaries

Australia’s Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said it plans to exempt stablecoin intermediaries from the requirement to hold a financial services license. The financial watchdog said ...

Published Date: September 18, 2025

Crypto Platform Bullish Wins New York BitLicense Clearing Path for US Expansion
Crypto Platform Bullish Wins New York BitLicense Clearing Path for US Expansion

Bullish (BLSH), the parent company of CoinDesk, has secured a coveted BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), a key regulatory approval that will allow the institu...

Published Date: September 17, 2025

The Clarity Act Is Probably Dead Heres Whats Next for Its Successor Legislation
The Clarity Act Is Probably Dead Heres Whats Next for Its Successor Legislation

It was a big moment for U.S. crypto when the House of Representatives cleared the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act that would set the regulatory stage for the industry. But before the dust settled on ...

Published Date: September 16, 2025

France Austria and Italy Urge Stronger EU Oversight of Crypto Markets Under MiCA
France Austria and Italy Urge Stronger EU Oversight of Crypto Markets Under MiCA

Market watchdogs in France, Austria and Italy want the European Union to tighten its approach to crypto regulation, warning that uneven enforcement of the bloc’s landmark MiCA legislation could leav...

Published Date: September 15, 2025

Top US Banking Regulator Gould Says Crypto Debanking Is Real
Top US Banking Regulator Gould Says Crypto Debanking Is Real

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jonathan Gould, in his opening weeks of running the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, left no uncertainty about his view of the systematic process to drop crypto peo...

Published Date: September 10, 2025

New White House Crypto Adviser Patrick Witt Calls Market Structure Bill Top Priority
New White House Crypto Adviser Patrick Witt Calls Market Structure Bill Top Priority

President Donald Trump’s new crypto guy, Patrick Witt, is picking up the baton from his predecessor Bo Hines in goading lawmakers to finish sweeping U.S. crypto policies and pushing regulators t...

Published Date: September 9, 2025

Stripes Tempo Blockchain Is a Referendum on the Ghost of Libra Says Libra CoCreator
Stripes Tempo Blockchain Is a Referendum on the Ghost of Libra Says Libra CoCreator

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Facebook’s Libra project, warned on Friday that Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc could succeed commercially but at the cost of crypto’s decentralization ideal....

Published Date: September 7, 2025

Chainlink CEO Sees Tokenization as Sectors Rising Future After Meeting SECs Atkins
Chainlink CEO Sees Tokenization as Sectors Rising Future After Meeting SECs Atkins

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov met with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins, who Nazarov said was keenly interested in how best to bring on-chain assets into compliance with sec...

Published Date: September 7, 2025

Clarity is Eating the World
Clarity is Eating the World

A generation ago, the biggest story in business was the rise of software. Today, the biggest story is the rise of clarity. Across crypto, clarity — on rules, on guardrails, on compliance — is neit...

Published Date: September 4, 2025

US CFTC Gives GoAhead For Polymarkets New Exchange QCX
US CFTC Gives GoAhead For Polymarkets New Exchange QCX

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has freed up prediction market firm Polymarket’s QCX acquisition from certain disclosure and data requirements as the company moves forward in its U...

Published Date: September 3, 2025