Crypto Regulations

Cantor Fitzgerald has donated $10 million to Fellowship PAC, a crypto-focused tremendous PAC chaired by Tether’s U.S. head of presidency affairs Jesse Spiro, in accordance to Federal Election Commission filings disclosed Wednesday. The donation comes at a second when the road between conventional finance and crypto lobbying capital is changing into arduous to outline. The…

Patrick Witt, govt director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets and the White House’s chief crypto adviser, mentioned on Monday that negotiations on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act have superior effectively past the stablecoin yield deadlock, with a number of excellent points being resolved in parallel behind the scenes. The sign…

The Department of Justice has opened a proper compensation claims portal for victims of OneCoin, the $4 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded roughly 3.5 million buyers throughout 175 nations between 2014 and 2019. More than $40 million in restitution, sourced from asset forfeiture proceedings that swept up proceeds tied to co-conspirators, together with Konstantin Ignatov,…

The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally backed a proposal to switch crypto-asset service supplier supervision to the European Securities and Markets Authority – a transfer that may collapse 27 fragmented nationwide licensing regimes right into a single Paris-based enforcement framework. The ECB’s opinion, issued in response to the European Commission’s 2025 capital markets bundle…

Hungary’s 16-year Orbán period ended on April 12, 2026, when opposition chief Péter Magyar’s pro-EU Tisza Party secured a commanding parliamentary majority – and with it, a believable path to unwinding one of many EU’s most aggressive nationwide crypto crackdowns. The political shift is confirmed. The regulatory reversal is just not. That distinction issues, and…

The Japanese Cabinet permitted a invoice on April 10 reclassifying crypto as a monetary instrument below the amended Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, pulling digital belongings out of the Payment Services Act framework and putting Japanese crypto on the identical authorized footing as shares and bonds. Maximum jail sentences for unregistered sellers leap from 3…

The DOJ core authorized idea in the Roman Storm crypto case has by no means been that writing code is against the law. It’s that exercising operational management over a platform that processes greater than $1 billion in illicit funds – whereas explicitly declining to implement possible anti-money-laundering controls – constitutes working a prison enterprise….

Phone logs obtained by federal prosecutors in Argentina present seven calls between President Javier Milei and entrepreneur Mauricio Novelli – one of many architects of the LIBRA crypto token, on the identical evening in February 2025 that Milei posted the now-infamous promotion on X, straight contradicting Milei’s public declare of no connection to the coin’s…