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Updated April 21, 2026 · 6:45 PM UTC

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Regulation

SEC makes huge U-turn, declares crypto tokens are ‘digital commodities’ after years of legal battles

A token can exit securities status when issuer promises end, but only if the original sale was registered or exempt.

1 month ago

Stablecoins

Congress has only weeks left to convince banks on crypto CLARITY Act or risk losing it to midterms

Congress must resolve stablecoin yield impasse or leave it to regulatory interpretation amidst intense banking pressure.

1 month ago

WLFI cryptocurrency coin placed on a boardroom table outside a high-level executive meeting, symbolizing the Trump-backed project offering guaranteed direct access to investors for $5 million

Regulation

Trump-backed WLFI is selling $5 million access while pitching finance for everyone

Super Nodes must lock 50 million WLFI for 180 days, then get prioritized partnership talks and heavier governance power.

1 month ago

Analysis

Iran war bets turned Polymarket and Kalshi into the next fight over what people should be allowed to trade

Wall Street likes platforms that can monetize attention, but Washington tends to notice once that attention turns into incentives around the wrong topics.

1 month ago

Central bank digital currency coin locked in a glass case with chains inside a Senate hearing room, symbolizing lawmakers voting to block a US CBDC through 2030

Analysis

Washington is trying to stop a government digital dollar before the Fed even builds one

The Senate voted 84-6 to advance a bill blocking a Federal Reserve digital dollar through 2030, leaving just six senators on the other side of one of Washington’s biggest crypto-policy flashpoints.

1 month ago

Trader using a phone at a betting table with market charts on screens as shadowy figures enter the room, illustrating insider risks and manipulation concerns in prediction markets acknowledged by the CFTC

Regulation

The CFTC says prediction markets have an insider trading problem

After listings exploded from about five a year to thousands, the CFTC is warning exchanges to catch manipulation before it hits headlines.

1 month ago

Bitcoin coin standing on the floor of a bank vault with a massive open safe door and gold reserves behind it, symbolizing the Federal Reserve’s decision on whether Bitcoin remains outside the traditional banking system

Banking

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

Basel’s thresholds and punitive risk weights can make direct Bitcoin exposure prohibitively expensive even when it’s legally permitted.

1 month ago

Regulation

The SEC finally admits what caused the mess US crypto was in before Trump took power

U.S. crypto companies were being regulated twice — now regulators say they’ll try to fix it.

1 month ago

Industrial pressure gauge and valve marked with Bitcoin and Bithumb symbols, representing the fading kimchi premium as South Korea intensifies scrutiny on the exchange

Exchanges

Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange

FIU’s proposed six month partial ban targets new user transfers, but the bigger shock may be price discovery shifting to Upbit.

1 month ago

Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis

Regulation 1 month ago

Crypto traders are buying tokenized stocks that don’t actually make them shareholders

Tokenization 1 month ago

Cardano spent years looking slow. Now that may help it win in crypto’s rule-heavy era

Regulation 1 month ago

The same crypto founders the US just stopped chasing are now funding Trump’s crypto tokens

Regulation 2 months ago

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Regulation news today

SEC makes huge U-turn, declares crypto tokens are ‘digital commodities’ after years of legal battles

Congress has only weeks left to convince banks on crypto CLARITY Act or risk losing it to midterms

Trump-backed WLFI is selling $5 million access while pitching finance for everyone

Iran war bets turned Polymarket and Kalshi into the next fight over what people should be allowed to trade

Washington is trying to stop a government digital dollar before the Fed even builds one

The CFTC says prediction markets have an insider trading problem

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

The SEC finally admits what caused the mess US crypto was in before Trump took power

Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange

Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis

Crypto traders are buying tokenized stocks that don’t actually make them shareholders

Cardano spent years looking slow. Now that may help it win in crypto’s rule-heavy era

The same crypto founders the US just stopped chasing are now funding Trump’s crypto tokens

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