Senate Pressure, Not Sentiment More than 120 crypto and blockchain entities have signed a letter urging the US Senate to advance a crypto market structure bill, a move that turns a policy debate into a timing test. The message is…
Cold Storage Meets Criminal Procedure Spanish police did more than shut down an alleged piracy site. They also stepped into one of crypto’s most awkward legal blind spots: what happens when investigators seize cold wallets but may not be able…
Kalshi Draws a Hard Line Kalshi’s suspension of three U.S. political candidates for betting on their own races is not just an enforcement story. It is a stress test for the idea that prediction markets can police themselves while expanding…
State Ethics Meets Event Contracts New York and Illinois have turned prediction markets from a niche trading story into a broader regulatory contest. The new executive actions target the most politically sensitive part of the market: public employees who may…
Satoshi Speculation Meets A Regulated Market Adam Back’s repeated need to answer the same Satoshi question says less about personality than about the state of Bitcoin itself. In Paris, the long-running mystery around Bitcoin’s creator was not treated as a…
A Tactical Step Back Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest filing is less a surrender than a recalibration. The former FTX chief has withdrawn his motion for a new trial, but he is still pressing for a different judge to handle the dispute.…
The Comment Clock Is Now Part Of The Battle Banks are not objecting to stablecoin regulation in the abstract; they are trying to slow the machinery down long enough to shape it. That distinction matters. A request for more time…
Licensing Is the Real Story Thailand is not simply adding another product to its crypto menu. The real issue is licensing architecture: whether digital asset firms can offer futures and other derivatives inside their existing business structures, rather than being…
A compliance system built for friction Kraken’s call for a de minimis exemption is not a side note in tax policy. It is a direct challenge to the way U.S. crypto reporting is being built: broad, highly granular, and expensive…
FCA Draws a Hard Line The UK’s latest action against illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading is more than an enforcement headline. It is a signal that the Financial Conduct Authority is willing to treat unregistered crypto activity as a direct financial-crime…
