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The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is preparing to roll out the first major rules tied to the GENIUS Act, a new federal law that creates a national framework for regulating stablecoin issuers. Acting Chair Travis Hill outlined the agency’s timeline in testimony submitted ahead of a House
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Australia is moving to place crypto platforms under the same regulatory umbrella as traditional financial services, marking one of the country’s most significant steps yet toward tightening oversight of the digital assets industry. On Wednesday, the Treasury introduced the Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill 2025 to parliament, following
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Securitize has received approval from Spain’s National Securities Market Commission to operate a regulated tokenized trading and settlement system under the European Union’s DLT Pilot Regime. The authorization, granted Wednesday, positions Securitize as the only company licensed to run tokenization infrastructure in both the United States and the
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As the 2026 midterm elections move into focus, crypto advocacy group Stand With Crypto is widening its push to gauge how political candidates view digital assets. The organization said Monday that it has launched a new survey aimed at both incumbents and first-time contenders in state and federal races, hoping
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Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, cleared a key hurdle on Thursday. The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12 to 11 along party lines to advance his nomination, sending it to the full Senate for consideration. The move came just one day after
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Malaysia’s battle against electricity theft tied to illegal crypto mining has reached a new milestone, with the national utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad reporting more than 1.1 billion dollars in losses over the past five years. The figures were disclosed in a parliamentary filing from the country’s energy
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U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott says he plans to bring the long-debated crypto market structure bill to a vote next month, setting up the possibility of Senate action early next year. Speaking Tuesday on Fox Business, Scott said he expects both the Senate Banking and Agriculture committees
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Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of a U.S. crypto ATM operator in what they say was a multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy. Firas Isa, 36, the CEO of Chicago-based Virtual Assets LLC — known to customers as Crypto Dispensers — was indicted Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for
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The White House is advancing a regulatory proposal that would allow the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to monitor American taxpayers’ cryptocurrency activities held on exchanges and wallets outside the country. The initiative stems from efforts to align U.S. policy with global tax transparency standards. On Friday, the
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Hong Kong has taken another major step toward becoming a leading digital-asset hub with the launch of a live pilot for Project Ensemble, an initiative aimed at integrating tokenized deposits into the city’s mainstream financial system. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced that the project has officially moved
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21Shares, a leading provider of cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has introduced two new crypto index funds aimed at making diversified digital asset investing more accessible to traditional investors. The products—the 21Shares FTSE Crypto 10 Index ETF (TTOP) and the 21Shares FTSE Crypto 10 ex-BTC Index ETF (TXBC)—officially debuted
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has unveiled plans to create a formal “token taxonomy”—a framework designed to clarify which digital assets should be classified as securities under U.S. law. The initiative marks a major step in the SEC’s ongoing effort to modernize its approach