Safe's own rules called for at least three board members. It ran with two for months.

A16z crypto's top policy lawyer says the SEC may have opened a huge crypto loophole.

Brazil has jumped to the top of the world's crypto rankings, but a change in how the numbers are calculated makes its rise less straightforward than it looks.

Thailand's new crypto rules could leave incoming crypto unavailable for withdrawal until exchanges obtain information about who sent it.

Zondacrypto's collapse has formally moved into bankruptcy, with its trustee estimating claims could exceed €700 million as thousands of former customers try to recover their money.

Donald Trump Jr.'s private pitch for prediction markets appears to have found a tough audience among Republican attorneys general.

Chainalysis has taken the U.S. government to court after rival blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs secured a $94.7 million ICE contract.

Nine of the FCA's 13 successful crypto registrations over the past year went to entities tied to established crypto giants, a review by The Coinformer found.

The Bank of Russia omitted USDC from a retail crypto whitelist less than two months after a deputy finance minister said the stablecoin would be included.

Nearly 30% of Great Britain's largest business current account providers exclude crypto businesses under their eligibility rules, The Coinformer has verified.

Only 26% of violent crypto theft attempts succeeded this year, but the average successful haul more than doubled to at least $2.5 million.

Fraudsters are posing as EU regulators and exchanges as crypto users rush to move funds from unlicensed platforms.

Russia is giving P2P crypto traders until July 2027 before forcing them through authorized intermediaries.

The surveillance proposal could turn direct security-service access into a requirement for exchanges allowed to operate under Russia's emerging crypto rules.

Tyler Williams is returning to the private sector after 17 months at Treasury, where he helped shape crypto policy after arriving from Galaxy Digital.

Russia's proposed rules require crypto custodians to hold between $640,000 and $3.2 million in capital, although Bitcoin can't count toward it.

An SEC warning about crypto vaults arrived just as Coinbase, Robinhood and Aave pushed the products toward mainstream users.

Bitcoin ATMs are among the businesses Apple won't allow to buy ads on Apple Maps under a new advertising policy released ahead of the platform's rollout.

Pakistan's crypto push has run into opposition after leading Islamic scholars said cryptocurrencies, including USDT, don't count as wealth under Islamic law.

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm says institutions want tokenized assets, not financial systems they can't control.

A new legal paper proposes making crypto users rebut suspicions of money laundering when they use tools designed to hide transactions.

Trump Bitcoin reserve plan was supposed to turn seized BTC into a national asset, but the administration is still sorting out who can legally hold the coins.

Russia's central bank says domestic crypto storage should run through custodial wallets only.

Crypto's political machine is still outspending other corporate sectors in the 2026 midterms, with firms pouring $189 million into federal races so far.

Hyperliquid's lobbying group said CME's lawsuit against the CFTC is an attempt by the largest U.S. derivatives exchange to shut down regulated access to perps.

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky received a lifetime trading ban after a federal court approved a settlement with the CFTC.

Illinois crypto tax critics say the new 0.2% charge could hit users for moving assets from self-custody to an exchange, even before any sale happens.

CME CEO Terry Duffy steps down shortly after criticising crypto perps and prediction markets.

Binance faces fresh uncertainty in Europe as the bloc's licensing deadline approaches.

Licensed crypto platforms in the Philippines can no longer support privacy crypto coins under new central bank rules that also require stronger checks.

CFTC regulation may now slow CME's own 24/7 oil push, just days after the exchange warned regulators about crypto perps.

Zimbabwe is trying to pull crypto out of the informal market with a $500 annual registration fee, eight years after banks were barred from handling crypto.

Polish president vetoed a crypto bill for the third time, keeping the country's MiCA rollout stuck as a scandal around zondacrypto keeps pressure on Warsaw.

The offshore crypto perps boom was partly an American story hiding behind VPNs, Coinbase CEO said, as the exchange got permission to offer a compliant route.

CFTC prediction markets rules could ban contracts tied to war, but the agency's review process may not stop every market before trading starts.

Greece is moving toward a clearer crypto tax regime, with officials reportedly preparing a 15% levy on crypto gains.

Russian banks may soon face a hard 1% capital cap on their crypto exposure, as the Bank of Russia wants lenders to treat tokens as assets that can be blocked.

The Backpack crypto exchange has secured MiCA and payment institution licences in Latvia, giving it a wider EU route beyond earlier perps setup in Cyprus.

Kalshi Bitcoin perps are coming to a CFTC-regulated exchange, giving U.S. traders a domestic version of a product that has mostly lived offshore.

The CFTC is trying to unwind its own enforcement case against Gemini after concluding that the crypto exchange shouldn't have been sued in the first place.

The former CEO of failed crypto lender Hodlnaut has been charged in Singapore over alleged false statements about the company's TerraUSD exposure.

A New York Times investigation found that Trump-linked crypto firms benefited as the CFTC weakened crypto enforcement and pushed out staff who raised concerns.

Estonia's financial watchdog suspended Zondacrypto's license, blocking the exchange from taking new client money.

Kalshi and Polymarket are still letting users in India sign up and trade even after the country's technology ministry warned that the platforms are illegal.

ICE and CME are reportedly pressing U.S. officials to bring Hyperliquid under oversight over oil-linked trading on the crypto platform.

The crypto industry just got one of its biggest wins in Washington, but this isn't law yet.