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SEC Trading Division Director Lays Out Tokenized Securities Framework and Joint CFTC Harmonization Push
Jamie Selway, Director of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, outlined two structural workstreams on June 4: a framework to list and trade tokenized securities under an 'innovation without arbitrage' principle, and a joint SEC-CFTC effort to harmonize conflicting rulebooks across swap reporting, portfolio margining, and product definitions.
160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume
A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.
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SEC Trading Division Director Lays Out Tokenized Securities Framework and Joint CFTC Harmonization Push
Jamie Selway, Director of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, outlined two structural workstreams on June 4: a framework to list and trade tokenized securities under an 'innovation without arbitrage' principle, and a joint SEC-CFTC effort to harmonize conflicting rulebooks across swap reporting, portfolio margining, and product definitions.
160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume
A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.
SEC Names Digital Asset Rulemaking Top Priority in Draft Strategic Plan
The Atkins-era Commission's FY26-FY30 plan places a 'firm regulatory foundation for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies' as the first objective of its first goal, opening a public-comment window through July 2 on a multi-year operating constraint that binds policy, examiner and enforcement capacity.
Fed, OCC and FDIC Strip 'Reputation Risk' From 15 Interagency Guidance Documents
Tuesday's joint action by the three tier-1 US bank regulators completes the rewrite of supervisory text that crypto firms and Wyoming digital-asset bank Custodia spent years alleging was used to push lawful businesses out of the banking system.
NYDFS and European Banking Authority Sign Cross-Atlantic Stablecoin Supervision MoU
The 22-page memorandum is the first formal supervisory link between the New York regulator licensing Circle, Paxos and Gemini and the EU body overseeing MiCA stablecoin issuers, committing both authorities to quarterly reserve-data exchange as the GENIUS Act and MiCA move toward enforcement.
US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, along with their leadership, naming the exchanges as the digital-asset rails for Iran's central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Kalshi Files to Add Perpetual Futures on 12 Altcoins, Three Days After CFTC Cleared Its Bitcoin Contract
The CFTC-registered exchange has asked the agency to approve perpetuals on ETH, XRP, SOL, DOGE and nine others, pushing the new onshore perps market beyond bitcoin almost as soon as it opened.
Argentine Prosecutors Arrest 24, Seize Over $8M in USDT in 'Fake Coins' Crypto-Fraud Sweep
The Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor's Office said it ran 90 simultaneous raids and froze more than 8 million USDT across three fraud rings — fake trading apps, WhatsApp hijacks, and a Chinese-origin infostealer operation — in what it calls the province's largest crypto seizure to date.
CFTC Approves First US-Regulated Bitcoin Perpetual Futures
The agency approved Kalshi's BTCPERP contract, the first bitcoin perpetual on a registered U.S. exchange, and in a separate action cleared Coinbase to route customers to its offshore Deribit affiliate. Together the moves open an onshore path for a product long pushed abroad and raise the competitive stakes for dominant venues such as Hyperliquid.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Clarifies Distinction Between Tokenized Securities and Synthetic Instruments
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce references a staff statement on tokenization to distinguish between issuer-sponsored tokenized stocks and synthetic crypto instruments offering stock exposure.