Regulation & Politics

Coinbase, the Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund urged the Senate to pass the 616-page merged draft, while Sen. Angela Alsobrooks called its DOJ-led ethics enforcement "wild and unserious and stone-cold crazy."

Bitcoin reclaimed $66,000 after reports that the White House circulated agreed-upon ethics-provision language to Senate Republicans, removing the main obstacle to a floor vote before the August recess.

The Wyoming senator says the bill will focus on fighting illicit finance, consumer protections and keeping crypto markets onshore in the US.

The Securities and Exchange Commission listed three crypto-focused rulemakings in its 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda, targeting proposed rules as soon as July, according to the agency's own Agency Rule List published on reginfo.gov.

Ripple has received full Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization from Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, the company said in a press release Monday. The license completes Ripple's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) requirements, letting it offer…

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities regulator, said in a statement that many prediction market event contracts may already fall within the bloc's existing ban on marketing binary options to retail investors. The regulator reminded firms they must assess whether…

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing to add a provision to pending Senate crypto legislation barring President Trump, his family and senior officials from profiting off digital assets, after a disclosure showed his crypto ventures made more than $1.4 billion last year.

The SEC published a formal request for comment on 'Novel ETFs' covering crypto-asset and prediction-market funds, following Chair Paul Atkins' May statement pausing launches for over two dozen pending applications.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is conducting a broad investigation into Polymarket covering staged trades and fake winning bets, Bloomberg reported Friday, advancing the agency’s scrutiny beyond the platform’s prior influencer scheme.

Seventeen Democratic senators are urging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to include a rider in the FY2027 spending bill that would prohibit the CFTC from using any federal funds to sue states over prediction-market regulation, escalating a multi-front jurisdictional battle spanning nine states and tribal gaming authorities.