Trump agrees to ethics clause in the Clarity Act: It prohibits public officials from issuing crypto and assigns enforcement to the DOJ.
ICE and OKX launch a 50/50 joint venture for round-the-clock tokenized NYSE shares. Co-chair of the venture is ex-governor Andrew Cuomo.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
CME Group sues the CFTC after the regulator approved perpetual futures as futures rather than swaps under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Illinois becomes the first US state to introduce a 0.2% Illinois crypto tax on digital asset transfers, taking effect in January 2027.
CBDC ban in the US: the Senate and House agree on a housing bill that bars the Fed from issuing a digital dollar until the end of 2030.
Greece’s HCMC plans to reject Binance’s MiCA licence. Without approval by 1 July 2026, the exchange faces exclusion from the EU market.
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S&P and Pantera launch the S&P Pantera Index, a crypto benchmark of 18 constituents that excludes Bitcoin for lack of protocol revenue.
The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report puts illicit activity below 1% of on-chain volume, countering the myth of Bitcoin as a criminal currency.
