Regulation & Politics

The regulator wants the EU to examine rules for DeFi gateways, with leverage caps and certification of lending protocols among the options.

Qualifying staking receipts fall into non-security categories, while the FAQs reaffirm an earlier position on maintenance and development funding.

LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino says he is also named in the claim and calls it 'meritless,' promising to defend himself in Vancouver.

Attorney General Letitia James asks a Manhattan court to shut the CFTC-designated exchange out of the state, award three times its gains, and impose $100,000 for each sports contract it offered.

Peirce also wants institutions to reuse identity checks rather than repeatedly store customer details. Her privacy proposals do not change existing compliance rules.

Treasury, State and DFC could participate in public-private ventures aimed at strengthening the dollar and demand for US debt.

The two groups submitted a joint proposal to Commissioner Hester Peirce for a safe harbor that would create a rebuttable presumption that decentralized exchange protocols and their front-ends are not exchanges under the Exchange Act. a16z filed a second letter the same day asking the SEC to build a registration regime for centralized crypto trading platforms modeled on the 1998 alternative trading system rules. Both letters are dated Sept. 14, three days before the SEC issued its Innovation Exemption for tokenized stock venues.

The super PAC’s biggest 2026 commitment follows a failed 49-50 cloture vote on CLARITY; Brown could return to the top Democratic post on Senate Banking.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs received RIN 3038-AF80, "Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets," from the CFTC on Sept. 17, two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act. OIRA lists the filing at the prerule stage, not as a proposed rule. Executive Order 12866 gives OIRA 10 working days to review preliminary actions, against 90 days for proposed and final rules. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review, and Michael Selig is the agency's only sitting commissioner.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a five-year conditional exemption on Thursday letting tokenized National Market System (NMS) stock trade on permissioned automated market makers (AMMs), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff opened introducing-broker relief to passive software providers across the industry the same morning. Both actions came two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and a day after the two chairmen said they would write crypto rules without it. Uniswap's token rose 19.8% over 24 hours.