White House meeting on stablecoin yield ends without agreement: banks and crypto industry continue to clash over the CLARITY Act.
Legal & Compliance
The White House mediates stalled CLARITY Act negotiations between the crypto industry and banks ahead of a February 2 meeting.
The US Senate introduces counter-proposal to the Clarity Act. The Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act grants the CFTC primary crypto oversight.
Coinbase withdraws support for CLARITY Act. Banking lobby fights stablecoin yields and the Senate postpones the vote.
Russia prepares law granting retail investors access to the crypto market. Trading limit of 300k rubles, implementation planned by July.
US Senate plans decisive vote on comprehensive crypto legislation – disputes over DeFi, stablecoins, and ethics remain unresolved.
PwC strengthens its presence in the crypto sector following the US regulatory shift. CEO Paul Griggs confirmed the strategic realignment.
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.
The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market, which dominated the crypto narrative throughout 2025, continues its rapid expansion this year.
Crypto products on the SIX: Altcoins overtake Bitcoin (BTC) in trading volume. Solana (SOL) and XRP overtake Ethereum (ETH).
