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Russia's Duma Greenlights Crypto Regulation Framework—What It Means for Global Markets
The Russian State Duma has passed comprehensive legislation that establishes the country's first formal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency market...
Pakistan Establishes Dedicated Crypto Enforcement Division as Regulatory Framework Tightens
Pakistan is taking a dual-track approach to cryptocurrency oversight—licensing exchanges while simultaneously building out enforcement infrastructure ...
British Parliament Takes Aim at Crypto Banking Gridlock
A cross-party parliamentary group has launched a formal inquiry into why UK banks are systematically blocking crypto firms from accessing banking serv...
UK Lawmakers Launch Formal Crypto Banking Inquiry as Access Crisis Deepens
A UK parliamentary group has formally launched an investigation into banking barriers facing crypto firms and consumers—signaling growing political co...
Celsius Co-Founders Face $6M+ Settlement with FTC Over Consumer Deception
Celsius co-founders Alex Mashinsky and Nuke Goldstein are coughing up over $6 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over what regulators...
Vietnam's Crackdown on Offshore Crypto Trading Could Cost Users $1,900—Here's What We're Watching
Vietnam's government is tightening the screws on retail crypto traders using offshore exchanges, and the penalties are steep. Users caught trading on...
Biden's Top Crypto Negotiator Stays Put as CLARITY Act Eyes Senate Vote
Patrick Witt, the White House's lead crypto policy architect, is postponing military training commitments to remain embedded in active negotiations ar...
Senate Democrats Push Consumer Safeguards in Crypto Market Structure Bill, Coinbase Exec Confirms
Coinbase's vice chair Ryan VanGrack confirmed that Democratic lawmakers have inserted consumer protection provisions into the CLARITY Act, a significa...
Tether Gold Gets Regulatory Green Light in Abu Dhabi—What It Means for Tokenized Assets
Tether Gold just cleared a major regulatory hurdle. Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the emirate's international financial hub, has formally recognize...
South Korea's Central Bank Pushes Digital Won Forward With Major CBDC Expansion
The Bank of Korea isn't playing around with its central bank digital currency ambitions. We're watching Project Hangang evolve from a modest proof-of...
Russia's Crypto Regulation Push: How New Legislation Could Reshape Digital Asset Trading
Russia is closing in on comprehensive crypto regulation. The proposed framework is just two parliamentary votes away from becoming law—and it's a big...
Nigeria's New Crypto Framework: Executive Order Aims to Unify Fragmented Regulation
Nigeria's president has signed an executive order that marks a significant shift in how the nation approaches crypto regulation and taxation. The mov...
Vietnam Escalates Enforcement: $19,000 Fines Signal Shift Toward Regulated Crypto Market
Vietnam's tightening its grip on the crypto space. The government has unveiled a fresh enforcement framework with bite—penalties reaching $19,000 for...
Crypto's Trust Crisis: Why One-Time Audits No Longer Cut It for Institutional Players
Institutional crypto investors are abandoning the traditional audit-dependent model as their go-to trust signal. The shift reflects a hard reality: o...
Capital B's Reverse Split Play: Chasing Institutional Capital with 10-for-1 Consolidation
Europe's second-largest Bitcoin treasury company is making a strategic move to reshape its investor profile. Capital B announced a 10-for-1 reverse s...
Russia's Crypto Crackdown Takes Final Legislative Push This Week
Russia's State Duma is barreling toward a decisive moment on digital assets. The lower chamber of parliament will hold second and third readings on a...
Japanese Logistics Giant Embraces JPYC Stablecoin for Driver Payouts
A major Japanese logistics company is moving to streamline contractor payments using JPYC, a yen-backed stablecoin, marking another real-world adoptio...
South Korea's Crypto Crackdown: 40 Market Manipulation Cases in Two Years
South Korea's Financial Services Commission has investigated 40 cases of cryptocurrency market manipulation since the Virtual Asset User Protection Ac...
CLARITY Act's Fate Rests on Trump's Ethics—Don't Hold Your Breath
The cryptocurrency industry is waiting on pins and needles for regulatory clarity, but the CLARITY Act's prospects are hanging by a thread. Here's th...
Regulators Punt on Stablecoin Rules: GENIUS Act Deadline Passes Without Final Implementation
US federal agencies have missed the one-year deadline established by the GENIUS Act to finalize stablecoin regulations, instead issuing 10 proposed ru...