News Archive
Browse retained market reporting from the past 30 days.
PYMNTS
The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank's long-running fight for access to the Federal Reserve's payment system, warning that a lower-court ruling could give federal regulators broad power to shut lawful digital asset businesses out of banking.
Cointribune
The Bank of Russia wants to limit the role of crypto in market professionals' accounts. Its new draft regulation sets a 25% threshold for digital assets considered in the calculation of their equity.
Crypto news
An Aug. 19 White House meeting involving at least six crypto and prediction-market firms has brought institutional settlement into focus as Lynq CEO Jerald David warns that regulation cannot make cash and collateral move around the clock.
Crypto Briefing
The Senate vote on the CLARITY Act could significantly shape U.S. digital asset regulation, impacting market dynamics and investor confidence. Senate to vote on CLARITY Act for digital assets on September 15.
Tokenpost
Visa is searching for a new stablecoin settlement partner with regulatory licenses across several major markets, as the global payments giant expands its cryptocurrency and digital asset infrastructure. According to documents seen by CoinDesk, Visa has issued a request for product (RFP) seeking a provider capable of supporting and swapping multiple stablecoins while handling settlement services.
Crypto Briefing
The meeting may enhance regulatory clarity and institutional adoption, potentially boosting market confidence and Bitcoin's future prospects. White House to host digital asset policy meeting with Trump, industry leaders.
AMBCrypto
Could changing these rules reduce fragmentation and trading costs for the current and the upcoming U.S. markets?
Crypto Briefing
AI-driven commerce could revolutionize transactions, but it raises significant challenges in fraud prevention and regulatory compliance. Fireblocks joins Agentic Payments Alliance to build infrastructure for AI-powered commerce.
Crypto Economy
Asset expansion: Cash App users can now buy Ether, SOL, XRP, and USDT through MoonPay using their balances. Unified checkout: Cash App Pay is integrated into MoonPay's checkout and partner platforms for instant crypto funding. Ecosystem growth: The platform's regulatory approvals and recent acquisitions support its push into broader crypto services.
Crypto Briefing
The reliance on agency-level crypto regulations introduces uncertainty, impacting investor confidence and market stability amid legislative gridlock. Trump agencies to develop crypto policy as landmark bill stalls in Senate.
Benzinga
President Donald Trump scheduled a White House crypto meeting for Wednesday after the SEC abruptly cancelled its planned session—something that Milk Road analyst John Gillan reads as supportive for passing the CLARITY Act. What Actually Happened With the SEC Meeting On the Milk Road Show podcast on Monday, Gillan walked through how three events unfolded in quick succession.
Crypto Briefing
The 2026 crypto procedural vote could delay comprehensive regulation, prolonging uncertainty in the digital asset market and affecting oversight. What a 2026 crypto procedural vote signals for Clarity Act cloture.
PYMNTS
With crypto legislation stalled, U.S. regulators are moving in to set policies of their own. But as Reuters reported Tuesday (Aug. 18), this has led to concerns in the digital asset industry that these rules could be revoked by future administrations.
Cryip
Kraken opened trading in more than 7,000 US-listed stocks to customers across the European Economic Area on Tuesday, letting them buy and hold real shares through the same account as its crypto and tokenized-stock products. The stock trading runs through Payward Europe Digital Solutions (CY) Limited, a Cyprus-licensed brokerage arm whose authorization, verified directly against Cyprus's regulator, has been active since November 2017, nearly eight years before Kraken had a tokenized-stock product to license at all.
CrowdFundInsider
The full implementation of the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets framework has strengthened the ability of national regulators to restrict access by non-EU crypto trading platforms.
Coingape
Blockchain.com has gained admission to Nigeria's SEC regulatory incubation programme, allowing the crypto platform to operate within a defined sandbox as regulators assess its services, safeguards and compliance standards. Ad Ad Blockchain.com Joins Nigeria SEC Regulatory Sandbox Blockchain.com has entered the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission's Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme, known as ARIP.
Unchained
The exchange said it left Russia in 2023, but law enforcement documents show it answered Moscow's request for a donor's identity and transaction history.
Crypto news
The Blockchain Association has backed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to repeal two market rules adopted in 2005, arguing that their removal could make it easier for tokenized securities to trade on public blockchains.
Unchained
The SEC blamed a scheduling problem, but sources point to a SIFMA litigation threat.
Decrypt
Austria's Financial Market Authority fined the Vienna-based exchange 70,000 euros for procedural and disclosure breaches, an early marker of how EU regulators intend to enforce the bloc's new crypto rulebook.