Regulation
Markets

CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals

CFTC staff issued release 9252-26 on Friday, giving designated contract markets a no-action path to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity…
Jun 12, 2026
Regulation

'Peirce Out': A Decade of Dissent

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as…
Jun 12, 2026
Markets

CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets

The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws…
Jun 12, 2026
Infrastructure

SEC targets 20-year-old rule standing between Wall Street and blockchain trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to dismantle a stock-trading rule that has governed Wall Street for two…
Jun 12, 2026
DeFi

Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets…
Jun 12, 2026
Regulation

Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal to overturn 25-year prison sentence

A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief’s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears…
Jun 12, 2026
Regulation

Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction

Bitcoin Magazine Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s final viable avenues to overturn…
Jun 12, 2026
Regulation

Polish president vetoes crypto bill for third time ahead of MiCA deadline

Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill to implement MiCA for the third time, just weeks before the end of…
Jun 12, 2026
Regulation

Japan’s Lower House Passes Sweeping Bill to Regulate Crypto Like Stocks, Opening a Path to Lower Taxes and ETFs

Japan’s lower house passed a sweeping bill on Thursday to regulate cryptocurrencies like stocks, a structural shift for one of…
Jun 12, 2026
Markets

SEC plan to scrap ‘Rule 611’ positive for tokenized US stocks: Galaxy

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says a plan to scrap rules on stock orders and quotes would remove a major barrier to…
Jun 12, 2026