The punishments of Alexander Mashinsky, the imprisoned former chief of Celsius until its high-profile collapse, continue with a formal banishment from any ability to seek business with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission or the trading it oversees. The derivatives regulator didn’t pile any new… Read More
A package of several crypto tax bills may not be ready yet for prime time, as a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing revealed potentially significant questions from lawmakers that suggested the panel hasn’t achieved a bipartisan embrace of the bills that would tailor… Read More
The first week of June may turn crypto’s 2025 policy wins into hard deadlines. Comment periods for the GENIUS Act’s stablecoin rules start closing this week, reaching the point where a federal framework stops being statute and becomes the operating rules issuers have to build… Read More
The United States has seized about $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency tied to Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, describing the action as part of a broader campaign to cut off funding channels used by Tehran. Speaking in an interview on Fox Business, Bessent said… Read More
As global trading trends race toward 24-hour, no-days-off markets, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that it may be fine for the new blockchain-native players, but that expanded hours might not be appropriate for some of the traditional markets, the derivatives watchdog said in… Read More
As the Commodity Futures Trading Commission takes on a growing task to police U.S. crypto trading, senior lawmakers are saying it needs bipartisan leadership.
