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Regulation

Policy

Chainlink Co-Founder Sees Tokenization as Rising Future After Meeting SEC's Atkins

Sergey Nazarov met with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and told CoinDesk he's impressed by how serious Atkins is about moving quickly on tokenization.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Policy

U.S. SEC's Atkins Posts Agency's Near-Term Agenda Jammed With Crypto Efforts

The securities regulator routinely posts an outline of its rulemaking agenda, and this latest one shows crypto's "new day" at the agency.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Clarity Is Eating the World

The winners of the next decade will not be those who move fast and break things, says Chris Brummer, Georgetown law professor and CEO of Bluprynt. Instead, the winners will be those who move smart and build things that last.

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Policy

U.S. CFTC Gives Go-Ahead for Polymarket's New Exchange, QCX

The predictions market firm had recently acquired the CFTC-regulated platform, and now the regulator has granted it certain concessions.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan at Consensus 2024 (CoinDesk).

Policy

U.S. SEC, CFTC Combine Forces to Clear Registered Firms' Trading of Spot Crypto

The markets agencies said in a joint statement they're OK with certain crypto assets trading on registered entities now, before Congress' market structure bill.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

State of Crypto: Unsettled U.S. Crypto Tax Scene

As Congress still struggles to work out a crypto tax approach in the U.S., the experts handling digital assets at the IRS are heading for the exits.

IRS (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

CFTC: Crypto Firms That Left U.S. Can Open Doors Here as Foreign Boards of Trade

The U.S. derivatives regulator issued a "reminder" that foreign crypto firms registered with the CFTC as FBOTs can directly handle U.S. customers.

CFTC HQ

Policy

U.S. CFTC, a Top Crypto Watchdog, Is About to Shrink Commission to Only One Member

Democrat Kristin Johnson's exit means the crypto regulator will fall to a single commissioner, Acting Chairman Caroline Pham, as Trump's pick awaits the Senate.

CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson (CoinDesk TV)

Policy

Head of IRS Crypto Work Exits as U.S. Tax Changes Loom For Digital Assets

Trish Turner, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service veteran running its digital assets effort, is the latest senior official leaving for the private sector.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

While CFTC Awaits New Chairman, Acting Chief Pham Gets Rolling on Crypto

As U.S. President Donald Trump's chairman nominee, Brian Quintenz, remains in a confirmation holding pattern, the CFTC starts another "crypto sprint."

Caroline Pham, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission