Crypto Regulation

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States, has applied for a Master Account with the Federal Reserve. If approved, the license would give Anchorage...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced regulatory relief for stablecoin intermediaries. This removes the licensing barriers for entities distributing cryptocurrency issued by Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensed...

2025 is shaping up to be the year regulators finally got ahead of crypto instead of just chasing it. Unlike the reactive approach of past cycles, governments have started to...

Singapore is pushing further out front in Asia’s digital finance race. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has built one of the region’s clearest frameworks for crypto service providers and...

France warned it could challenge the ability of crypto firms licensed in one EU country to operate across the bloc, raising the stakes in Europe’s rollout of the Markets in...

South Korea has lifted a seven-year restriction on cryptocurrency businesses, clearing the way for trading and brokerage firms to qualify as venture-certified companies. The Cabinet approved revisions to the Enforcement...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has put forward a supervisory policy known as CRP-1, designed to make it easier for banks to handle crypto assets. The draft framework lays...

India is leaning towards maintaining partial oversight on cryptocurrencies rather than introducing full legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies, according to a government document seen by Reuters.  Officials argue that creating a...

Russia, which has been an important member in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, has proposed providing crypto trading to retailers. Talks are underway and if approved, the retail investors could soon access...

India’s economy remains one of the fastest-growing in the world, with GDP growth projected at 7–8% in 2025, fueled by IT exports, manufacturing expansion, and a thriving services sector. Alongside...

Today, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea has imposed its first-ever fine targeting a crypto whale for unfair trading practices, including creating artificial trading volume, spreading false information,...

The SEC and CFTC issued a new joint statement on crypto, but prominent crypto lawyers are already calling it a “nothingburger.”  While regulators are celebrating the move as a major...

A leadership crisis is engulfing the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threatening to paralyze a key U.S. crypto regulator.  Reports confirm that Democratic Commissioner Kristin Johnson will depart the agency...

A massive coalition of over 100 crypto companies and advocacy groups, including Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, a16z, Grayscale, Uniswap Labs, and Solana Labs, has put the Senate Banking Committee on notice....

Hong Kong’s banking authority, the HKMA, has laid out plans to adopt the world’s strictest crypto banking standards. It’s a strategic move designed to attract major financial institutions by making...

The regulatory spotlight is once again fixed on Binance. Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, AUSTRAC, has ordered the exchange’s local unit to appoint an external auditor after identifying “serious concerns” with...

India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended that cryptocurrencies be regulated under a clear legal framework rather than being outlawed. This recommendation comes even as the committee’s own...

The new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins, has reinforced his stance that only a small number of digital tokens should be classified as securities. ...

The U.S. House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a major cryptocurrency market structure bill that would create the first comprehensive rulebook for digital assets in the country. The...

Illinois has enacted two major new cryptocurrency laws, a move designed to crack down on fraud and bring stricter regulation to digital asset businesses. Governor JB Pritzker signed the legislation...

South Korea’s top financial regulator slammed the brakes on crypto lending. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has ordered all domestic crypto exchanges to immediately suspend their newly launched lending services,...

The Altcoin Buzz channel released part two of its series exploring crypto assets that comply with the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard. As global banks and institutions move toward this...

SEC Chair Paul Atkins outlined a sweeping regulatory modernization effort on Fox Business, introducing “Project Crypto” as a central initiative to update decades-old securities rules for the digital asset era....

The Federal Reserve has announced it will phase out its specialized oversight framework for banks engaged in cryptocurrency and fintech ventures. Introduced in 2023, the program specifically targeted novel banking...

The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), a major U.S. banking lobby group, is sounding the alarm over stablecoin reward programs from companies like Coinbase and PayPal, warning they could destabilize the...