Regulation News

Global crypto regulation updates, enforcement actions, and compliance developments.

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Bitcoin coin stopped at a metal gate while smaller tokens pass through, illustrating Congress targeting crypto wash-sale rules while favoring stablecoin tax treatment

Congress proposes removal of widely used Bitcoin tax loophole and giving it to regulated stablecoins

The new Digital Asset PARITY Act draft would extend wash-sale rules to digital assets while shielding certain regulated payment stablecoins from routine gain-or-loss recognition.

4 days ago

Brian Armstrong at a podium with a glowing teleprompter full of crypto icons as a prediction-gauge arc flips beside a luminous Coinbase backdrop.

People

When the CEO reads the script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong manipulate a market?

Armstrong said words at the end of Coinbase's earnings call to settle nearly $90,000 in prediction markets bets. Some called it a harmless troll. Others called it market manipulation by a regulated CEO.

5 months ago

metallic blue USDT and USDC tokens streaking toward a sunlit Great Wall where a glowing red yuan symbol is embedded, captured in high-key natural light with a soft bloom from a low, dramatic angle.

Stablecoins

The $308B question: Will stablecoins thrive globally without China?

Despite China's criticism, stablecoins find product-market fit, challenging traditional finance with $46 trillion in transactions.

5 months ago

ETF

US Solana staking ETFs begin trading today: What it changes for altcoins

Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg confirmed that the company's spot HBAR and LTC ETFs are effective and will also begin trading on Nasdaq.

5 months ago

A vivid Capitol scene contrasts a glowing hourglass and Bitcoin with a bright pause symbol and barricades, suggesting a government shutdown testing crypto’s resilience.

Regulation

Crypto under pressure: What the U.S. shutdown tells us about market resilience

The government shutdown leaves crypto traders leaning into chaos as traditional signals disappear.

5 months ago

Banking

Fed opens a narrow payments door to stablecoin issuers, Arthur Hayes warns of bank fallout

Waller's "skinny" master account proposal could let compliant crypto firms access Fed rails directly, eliminating bank-partner friction while raising concerns about commercial-bank disintermediation.

5 months ago

Bitcoin and Ethereum coins ensnared in a wire UK-shaped net on a stone embankment beside the Thames, with Parliament and Big Ben in crisp daylight and structured blue-red data lines arcing overhead toward a magnifying glass with a pound symbol—no text visible, only logos and objects.

Regulation

HMRC tightens the net: UK crypto investors face crackdown on unreported gains

For UK investors, the days of "forgetting" to report their transactions are over as crypto tax rules and enforcements are stepped up, and penalties for non-compliance are brutal.

5 months ago

hand tapping an SBI prepaid card on an XRP-lit POS terminal on a sunlit New York sidewalk, with crisp coin glints, realistic reflections, and the Statue of Liberty softly blurred in the background to dramatize XRPL’s return to U.S. rails.

Adoption

How XRP’s renewed role is driving crypto-fiat settlement and innovation worldwide

Ripple's XRP Ledger emerges as a cornerstone for blockchain payments, boasting compliance and institutional integration in major markets

5 months ago

A hyper-realistic 16:9 cinematic scene shows a towering smartphone merged with an open vault door pouring golden light onto a path of biometrics, coins, and contactless symbols, as distant, unidentifiable figures raise their arms beneath a bright teal-and-amber sky signifying financial freedom.

Slate Sunday

Debanked to rebanked? Redefining financial access in the age of executive orders

President Trump's executive order aims to end political debanking and restore fair access to banking for crypto companies like Custodia, but is it working?

5 months ago