Regulation & Politics

The planned rule would cover advisers and investment companies and clarify digital-asset custody, following the withdrawal of a separate 2023 proposal.

Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 fell 11 votes short of the 60 it needed. All 49 votes to proceed came from Republicans. Collins, Hawley, Moran and Tillis voted no, and Tillis voted no to preserve the right to move to reconsider, which he did a minute after the result was announced. Polymarket cut the odds of the bill becoming law this year to 6.5% from 29.5% on Monday.

The ethics division drops the Jan. 20, 2029 sunset, reverses the July text's bar on state attorney general enforcement, and raises civil penalties from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. The bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets reach only assets created after the law takes effect, up to 360 days after enactment. No Democrat has endorsed the text.

The Sept. 10 substitute adds CFTC registration and Bank Secrecy Act obligations for trading protocols that are not decentralized, limits the DeFi title to spot and cash digital commodity transactions, and clarifies what credit unions may do with digital assets. The seven Senate Democrats who have negotiated the bill for a year have not withdrawn the statement of opposition they issued in July.

A pending exemptive application would let ARK Venture Fund record ownership of a new share class using distributed ledger technology and trade it on registered ATS venues. Hearing requests are due Sept. 18.

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve for the Frontier Stable Token on Sept. 2. FRNT's total supply is 967,948 tokens, about 0.2% of the 508.7 million the Commission projected to the state legislature as its base case.

Two Thai businessmen are suing Tether in Manhattan federal court over 42,417,785.62 USDT blacklisted across 10 Ethereum addresses. Onchain records show all 10 were frozen in a single two-and-a-half-minute batch on Oct. 30, 2025, and the seizure warrant the complaint cites is dated Feb. 19, 2026.

The proposal would update electronic recordkeeping rules and add risk-management and compliance requirements for registered transfer agents using blockchain systems.

The panel affirmed the dissolution of Kalshi’s Nevada injunction after finding no likely federal preemption, reaching the opposite preliminary conclusion from the Third Circuit.

The president said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring the geoblocked perpetual futures venue into the US "in a fully compliant and legal fashion," sending HYPE and Hyperliquid Strategies shares up and CME and Cboe down.