Legal & Compliance

The revised Clarity Act runs to 630 pages ahead of the first Senate vote on September 15, but Democrats have not yet backed it.

Iran’s central bank tolerates crypto in export payments while the US Treasury has sanctioned four Iranian exchanges handling 78% of volume.

Coinbase wants to list stock perpetuals for round-the-clock trading in the US and needs CFTC approval on top of the SEC clearance.

Judge Failla has pushed the Roman Storm trial to April 2027, because she has not yet ruled on the Tornado Cash developer’s acquittal motion.

Coinbase-backed lobbying group Stand With Crypto endorses 32 House incumbents who voted for the Clarity Act, now stalled in the US Senate.

Trump says the CFTC under Chairman Michael Selig is working on regulated US market access for the perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid.

The SEC’s proposed crypto issuance rules would exempt offerings up to USD 5 million from federal registration for four years.

US prosecutors in Atlanta unsealed the Edward Zimbardi indictment over a USD 165 million crypto Ponzi days after Fiji deported him.

Bitpanda’s MiCA penalty of EUR 70,000 concerns only formal and notification rules, while its license and client funds remain untouched.

The OCC has conditionally approved a trust bank charter for World Liberty, allowing the Trump firm to issue the stablecoin USD1 itself in future.

Russian investigators obtained Binance client data on one user, which now underpins a terrorism charge over crypto donations to Ukraine.

The Clarity Act vote now falls on September 15, and Republicans need seven Democratic votes to clear the Senate cloture hurdle.

Since the MiCA transition period ended on July 1, phishing scams have impersonated ESMA or AMF and demanded crypto transfers to fake sites.

Wintermute’s US unit registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer, and the license opens crypto ETF settlement to the market maker.

The Senate has scheduled no cloture vote on the Clarity Act before the summer recess. Ethics and money laundering concerns remain unresolved.

Robinhood’s FCA registration gives its British subsidiary a head start on the new UK crypto licensing regime taking effect in autumn 2027.