Legal & Compliance

US Congress drafts safe harbor rules for small stablecoin payments and deferred taxation of staking rewards.

A class action lawsuit accuses the memecoin platform Pump.fun and the Solana ecosystem of operating an illegal digital casino.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dropped its investigation into leading DeFi protocol Aave after four years.

PayPal has applied to the FDIC and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions to establish a Utah-chartered industrial bank.

The US Senate has postponed the vote on the long-awaited crypto market structure legislation, the CLARITY Act, to 2026.

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is being sentenced to a prison term today in a US federal court in Manhattan.

The US banking regulator OCC has significantly expanded the regulatory framework for crypto activities conducted by US banks.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has received comprehensive regulatory approval for the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

The CFTC is allowing regulated spot crypto trading in the US for the first time, establishing a new standard for secure, supervised markets.

Zurich authorities seize millions in Bitcoin during the Cryptomixer.io investigation; prosecutor outlines legal boundaries.

China’s central bank intensifies its crackdown on cryptocurrencies, warning that stablecoins pose a risk to financial stability.

Ripple secures regulatory approval for its RLUSD stablecoin in Abu Dhabi, opening the door to institutional financial use.

Major exchanges urge the SEC not to exempt crypto firms from existing securities rules when offering tokenized stocks.

Binance faces US lawsuit over alleged terror financing by Hamas: victims sue under the JASTA anti-terrorism law.

The EU will ban privacy coins and anonymous wallets by 2027 – AMLR and MiCA will require all crypto service providers to conduct identity verification.

With new rules for the suboptimal FinTech license and stablecoins, the Federal Council aims to close gaps in crypto regulation.