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The Senate will not vote on crypto market structure legislation before September. Meanwhile, the SEC is voting on a 400-page rulemaking framework that does much of what Congress promised. Here is why rulemaking may matter more than legislation now. The…
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CFTC vs. New York: the prediction market emergency that could redraw federal-state crypto boundaries
On August 11, the CFTC invoked emergency powers for only the seventh time in its history to keep Kalshi running after New York filed a $36 billion lawsuit calling prediction contracts illegal gambling. The clash between federal derivatives law and…
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The SEC cancelled its Aug. 14 Regulation Crypto meeting, delaying proposed crypto offering rules without announcing a replacement date.
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The SEC votes August 14 on its first formal crypto rulemaking. The proposal creates three exemption pathways, a decentralization off ramp for tokens, and a framework that could make congressional legislation optional. Here is what each provision means in practice.…
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The United States and the United Kingdom have issued 10 recommendations for stablecoins, tokenized securities, and cross-border finance, although the proposals have not created enforceable rules. The Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future published the recommendations on July 14,…
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Kalshi puts the Democratic House majority at 84%. Maxine Waters, Shontel Brown, and Elizabeth Warren would control the committees that write crypto law. The industry’s legislative window may be closing faster than its lobbyists admit. The crypto industry spent the…
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The CFTC used emergency authority to override New York. Nine states have been sued. FlightAware added a data rights claim. The legal architecture of prediction markets is being built in courtrooms, not in Congress. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission does…
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SEC commissioners will meet Aug. 14 to consider tailored crypto offering rules as the CLARITY Act waits for a Sept. 15 Senate vote.
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South Korea will apply its crypto Travel Rule to all domestic VASP transfers while tightening controls on overseas exchanges and personal wallets.
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White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt says CLARITY remains a September priority as the Senate prepares for a Sept. 15 cloture vote.
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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Senate passage of the CLARITY Act, arguing its crypto rules would strengthen U.S. national security.
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The exchange filed a civil lawsuit in a US federal court against North Korea, its intelligence agency, and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion hack of February 2025. A judge has already frozen stolen assets. The case tests whether…
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Researchers found 821 accounts that made $8.2 million by manipulating bitcoin prices in the final seconds before Polymarket settled its short dated contracts. Polymarket has now replaced instant snapshots with time weighted averages, but the structural vulnerability they exposed is…
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The largest crypto liquidity provider registered with FINRA on August 6. The move signals something larger than one firm’s expansion: the infrastructure that runs crypto markets is migrating onto Wall Street rails. On August 6, 2026, Wintermute announced that its…
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The FCA is discussing tokenized gold standards with banks as UK regulators explore its use as wholesale collateral under existing market rules.
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The Senate will not vote on crypto market structure before August 7. Prediction markets price passage at 16 percent. The math for September is worse than it looks. The most bipartisan digital asset bill ever to clear a chamber of…