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The SEC and CFTC issued joint interpretive steerage on March 17 introducing a five-category token taxonomy: digital commodities, digital collectibles, digital instruments, stablecoins, and digital securities. The steerage explicitly classifies protocol mining, staking, and sure airdrops as non-securities actions. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the interpretation “acknowledges what the previousContinue Reading

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WLFI plans to tokenise mortgage income from a Trump-branded Maldives resort as a part of its broader real-world asset technique. The providing will present accredited traders with mounted yield and publicity to hospitality-linked mortgage earnings inside a regulated framework. The tokens can be privately positioned, topic to switch limits, andContinue Reading

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SMSFs are more and more allocating to crypto as a result of youthful trustees, diversification objectives, and regulatory readability. Crypto ETFs are decreasing obstacles to entry, making regulated digital asset publicity simpler and compliant for SMSFs. Broader ETF market progress, together with document inflows and passive technique choice, helps theContinue Reading

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A number of crypto executives, together with Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, have been appointed to the CFTC’s new Innovation Advisory Committee. The committee has 35 appointees in complete drawn from a spread of sectors together with crypto, on-line betting, prediction markets, and huge TradFi establishments. TheContinue Reading

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The Federal Reserve is pushing forward with a limited-access fee account whereas broader crypto regulation stays stalled. Trade suggestions reveals sharp disagreement over whether or not non-traditional corporations ought to entry Fed infrastructure. Waller linked regulatory progress with a broader cooling in crypto market sentiment after final yr’s surge. USContinue Reading

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A public session of the UK’s Home of Lords Wednesday heard criticism of stablecoins together with that they’re just about ineffective outdoors of on- and off- ramping between fiat and crypto. Monetary Instances economics author, Chris Giles, argued that stablecoins are unlikely to have a lot affect on the broaderContinue Reading

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Matt Hougan says crypto has been in a protracted downturn since early 2025. Institutional flows masked losses, whereas regulatory uncertainty weighs on sentiment. Hougan believes the cycle is superior, bringing a possible restoration nearer. Crypto markets have been in a sustained downturn since January 2025, in keeping with Bitwise chiefContinue Reading

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SEC Chair Paul Atkins has distanced himself from his December 2025 remarks that urged regulatory reduction for sure crypto merchandise, similar to tokenised equities and DeFi, might come into impact in January 2026. Atkins was extra wishy-washy on Thursday, saying the scenario is now extra advanced, with many “transferring elements.” Continue Reading

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The Senate Agriculture Committee superior a long-delayed crypto market construction invoice on a slender party-line vote after rejecting all proposed amendments. Democrats pushed for ethics and bipartisan safeguards, whereas Republicans moved forward citing stalled negotiations and the necessity for regulatory readability. The invoice now awaits consolidation with separate Senate BankingContinue Reading

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SEC and CFTC leaders signalled a unified strategy to crypto regulation regardless of stalled congressional laws. CFTC Chair Mike Selig outlined early priorities, together with digital asset definitions and prediction market rulemaking. Venture Crypto will function a joint framework to harmonise oversight and cut back regulatory fragmentation. Leaders of theContinue Reading