Washington has started selecting which crypto firms control custody at a national level
A fast cluster of OCC approvals suggests the US is formalizing who controls custody, settlement, and stablecoin infrastructure.
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The proposal leaves states with a narrow lane while pushing large stablecoin issuers toward federal control.
After months of expansion, crypto’s most important reserve machine is starting to look less like a growth story and more like a credibility campaign.
The bill links mining hardware supply to national security, raising questions about how the US sustains its global hash rate lead.
A Senate breakthrough on CLARITY could formalize a US market structure in which Bitcoin becomes the clearest institutional winner.
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.
A national fight is now underway over whether sports prediction markets are federally regulated derivatives or unlicensed gambling platforms. The answer could determine not just who regulates them, but whether their current growth model survives at all.