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The Comptroller granted preliminary conditional approval on 14 August to charter World Liberty Trust Company, which will issue and redeem USD1, hold its reserve and custody digital assets as a fiduciary.
The city filed two complaints in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on 13 August under an ordinance of its own, and the Kalshi case also names Robinhood, Webull and Coinbase, because each takes a fee on every event contract sold through its…
A cancellation notice dated 13 August withdrew the open meeting called for 10 a.m. on the 14th, at which the Commission was to consider proposing a tailored offering regime for certain crypto assets. No new date was given.
The Commission published the agenda on 13 August for the first meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee, on 20 August.
The Division of Investment Management said on 12 August that it would not recommend enforcement action if Franklin Templeton's registered funds put cash and securities lending collateral into its blockchain-recorded government money fund.
A King County judge signed an order on 12 August requiring KalshiEX to stop offering event contracts on sports, elections, politics, entertainment, culture, tech and science and mentions in Washington, with geofencing by 2 September and $120,000 a…
A twelve-page advisory issued on 12 August tells designated contract markets what a market-maker or trading incentive programme may contain and how to file one.
The Commission found on 11 August that a state enforcement action and its motion for a restraining order are a major market disturbance, and directed KalshiEX to keep operating.
Cohort 2 of the Central Bank of Nigeria's regulatory sandbox takes applications from 12 August for supervised live testing of stablecoin issuance, virtual asset payments, custody and on-ramps.
A Sunshine Act notice dated 10 August calls an open meeting for 10 a.m. on Friday 14 August, at which the Commission will consider whether to propose a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.
More than 50 cryptoassets went into the main Robinhood app for British customers on 10 August, traded through Bitstamp UK Ltd, with no trading, custody or account fee and a 0.10 per cent charge on the currency conversion that rises to 0.30 per cent…
Staff at the derivatives regulator wrote to every venue listing event contracts to say that displaying them in American plus-minus odds, rather than in cents, is likely to mislead customers about what they are buying and risks breaching the…
A federal judge in Detroit refused to stop Michigan enforcing its sports betting law against Coinbase, finding that sports event contracts are probably not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act and that, even if they were, the Act does not displace…
The crypto market maker's New York affiliate is registered with the SEC and admitted to FINRA membership as a proprietary trading firm, able to trade equities and equity options, self-clear digital asset securities for its own account and create and…
The letter puts nearly a million investors' losses at $3.81bn against $636m of gains for the President, and asks whether the coin was a soft rug pull. A blockchain analytics firm told CNN it shows no hallmarks of one, and the SEC would not comment.
From 1 August the Chrome Web Store refuses extensions that move real money on predictive outcomes, closing a distribution channel to venues such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Google Finance has carried their prices since November 2025.
The NYDFS has granted Circle Internet Trust Company a limited purpose trust charter, putting the USDC issuer under the New York Banking Law a decade after it took the first BitLicense.
The state's petition asks a New York court to shut an exchange the CFTC licenses, with remedies one report reckons could pass $36bn, and puts the sharpest question yet to the federal footing of event contracts.
The regulator has ordered the former congressman to give up his profits and pay a penalty for trading a Kalshi contract on whether he would attend the State of the Union, an outcome he alone controlled.
A principles-based rewrite of Parts 37, 38 and 39 would police affiliations between exchanges, clearers and trading firms—the integrated structure crypto platforms made standard in derivatives markets.
The federally regulated dollar token Tether launched in January now mints and burns natively on the payments network, where it can also pay for gas.
A preliminary injunction in the District of Minnesota halts Senate File 3432, finding the Commodity Exchange Act probably preempts a state law that criminalises prediction market platforms.
The league wants outright bans on contracts over officiating and player performance rather than case-by-case review, a 21-and-over floor, and prohibited-bettor lists—positions that put it at odds with both the Commission's draft and the leagues that…
The platform that issues BlackRock's BUIDL fund has registered Securitize Capital as an investment adviser, completing a set of licences that now runs from broker-dealer and trading venue to transfer agent, fund administrator and adviser.
Kenya gazetted the Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026 on 24 July 2026, completing implementation of the VASP Act assented to in October 2025.
The Division of Market Oversight says template filings that bundle many contract variations into a single certification fall short of what the rules require.
The Council adds platforms in six jurisdictions to its Russia measures and creates, for the first time, a tool to bar dealings with any crypto provider used by Russia.
HM Treasury published the first report of its Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, Chris Woolard, on 13 July 2026.
The European Parliament approved its position on the digital euro regulation on 9 July 2026, following a committee vote in June.
On 22 June 2026 the Bank of England published a policy statement and draft Code of Practice for sterling systemic stablecoin issuers, dropping proposed individual holding limits in favour of a temporary £40bn cap per issuance.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a notice of proposed rulemaking on prediction markets, published in the Federal Register on 12 June 2026, setting out when event contracts on enumerated activities are contrary to the public interest.
The European Commission opened a two-part consultation on revising the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation in May 2026, with responses due by 30 August 2026.
The Senate Banking Committee released its version of the CLARITY Act on 11 May 2026 and advanced the crypto market structure bill out of committee that month. A further revision was reported in July 2026 as negotiators worked toward a bipartisan compromise.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority granted its first stablecoin issuer licences on 10 April 2026 to HSBC and to Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture led by Standard Chartered with Animoca Brands and HKT.
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a Nasdaq rule change on 18 March 2026 allowing certain tokenized securities to trade on the exchange, alongside an interpretation of how the federal securities laws apply to tokenized instruments.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published a proposed rule on 25 February 2026 implementing the GENIUS Act, consolidating reserve, redemption, audit and supervision requirements for payment stablecoin issuers in a new 12 CFR Part 15.
Tether announced USAT on 27 January 2026, a dollar stablecoin issued in the United States by Anchorage Digital Bank under the GENIUS Act framework, with Cantor Fitzgerald as reserve custodian and preferred primary dealer.
Circle's euro token held €381.8m in June 2026 against $72.6bn of its dollar token, and MiCA's ban on paying interest sent what euro demand exists onchain into money market funds instead.
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