The CFTC is probing whether the White House staffer who ran Trump's teleprompter used advance knowledge of speeches to win over $100,000 on Kalshi's word-mention markets.

President Trump will meet senators Thursday to hash out the ethics provisions blocking the CLARITY Act, with Senate leadership racing to pass crypto's biggest bill before the August recess.

Japan's upper house reclassifies crypto as financial instruments — Bitcoin ETFs by 2027 and a 20% flat tax on deck — while cooling US inflation sends BTC to a three-week high above $65,000.

Japan's upper house passed a landmark bill moving Bitcoin and crypto under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — opening the door to spot ETFs and slashing the top crypto tax rate from 55% to a flat 20%.

The SEC has opened a 27-question, 60-day review of its ETF rulebook — and whether crypto funds should even count as investment companies is on the table.

A new IMF working paper by economist Brandon Joel Tan finds dollar stablecoins help households in calm times but can turn a wobbling currency peg into a full-blown run — and floats limiting large transactions during crises.

The OCC has given Circle final approval to open a federally regulated national trust bank, a first-of-its-kind milestone for a stablecoin issuer — though it can't take deposits or make loans.

BoE Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden floated market-wide kill switches for autonomous AI trading agents, as the FCA's Nikhil Rathi admits legislation 'will never keep up.' Crypto's 24/7 markets have no such brakes.

A Sunday Times investigation says Nigel Farage failed to declare security, drivers, staff and housing paid for by George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster behind offshore crypto gambling platform Tether.bet. It's his second crypto-money headache — he's already under investigation over £5M from Tether stakeholder Christopher Harborne.

Binance logged $1.23 billion in weekly outflows — the most in over three years — as it winds down EU services ahead of the MiCA deadline and ether withdrawals hit levels not seen since March 2023.

Bitcoin opened July at a 652-day low after its worst month since 2022, then bounced above $60K on Fed comments. Plus: MiCA's deadline hits EU crypto firms, Nasdaq taps Pyth, and Thursday's jobs report looms.

The UK's FCA has published the near-final framework for crypto firms, with authorization applications opening in late 2026 and the full regime going live in October 2027.

In its 2026 annual report, the Bank for International Settlements says today's stablecoins fail the basic test of money and risk fragmenting global finance unless governments coordinate fast.

Luxembourg's CSSF handed Ripple a preliminary CASP approval on June 23, putting the firm inside MiCA's perimeter a week before EU enforcement begins. The 'Green Light Letter' still comes with conditions Ripple has to clear.

The European Banking Authority proposed penalties of up to 12.5% of annual revenue for non-compliant token issuers — landing just days before the July 1 MiCA deadline already squeezing Binance out of the EU.

The Bank of England has scrapped the per-person and per-business stablecoin caps the industry hated most, but replaced them with a single £40 billion ceiling on the entire sterling stablecoin market.

Singapore's central bank added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, parking the largest perps DEX next to Binance and Bybit. Hyperliquid's response: it never claimed a license, nothing has changed, and your funds were always self-custodied.

The SEC and CFTC opened a 60-day comment window on harmonizing portfolio margin rules across securities, swaps and futures — landing right after regulated U.S. crypto perpetual futures went live.

With no CASP authorization from any EU regulator, Binance has told customers across Spain, Italy, France and Poland to withdraw their funds before the bloc's July 1 MiCA cutoff. Spain's regulator confirmed there will be no extension.

The two top US market regulators are jointly asking for public input on unified portfolio margin rules spanning securities and derivatives — a potential structural win for crypto traders.