At 7:12 a.m. on a random Tuesday in February, an email lands with a subject line that looks harmless enough: “Your tax forms are ready.” For Maya, a part-time designer who bought a little Bitcoin during the 2021 hype, then sold small chunks across a couple of apps when life got expensive, it feels like […]
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The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House backed a Box 3 overhaul that would tax “actual returns,” including annual price changes in liquid assets like BTC, at a flat 36%, even if you never sell. The plan targets Jan. 1, 2028 (pending […]
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The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in. That story still matters. The past week made something else clearer: the legislation is becoming a proxy war over who gets to pay Americans for holding digital […]
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CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOs Most crypto traders barely think about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until something breaks, a lawsuit hits, or a Bitcoin futures headline crosses their feed. In the popular mental map of US regulation, the SEC is the one staring at […]
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Washington’s stablecoin stalemate is hardening into a fight that banks recognize immediately as a deposit issue. The dispute is no longer centered on whether dollar-linked tokens should exist. It centers on whether they should be treated as deposits, especially if consumers can earn interest-like rewards simply for holding them. A recent White House meeting aimed […]
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White House stablecoin meeting could unfreeze the CLARITY Act, but your USDC rewards may be the price The newly confirmed Feb. 10 White House meeting on stablecoin policy is being framed by some market observers as a step toward breaking the logjam around the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that has already run […]
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The White House's end-of-February deadline for banks and crypto firms to resolve the “stablecoin yield” debate exposes a structural fault line that was never going to stay buried. This isn't a speed bump on the road to crypto-friendly regulation. Instead, it's a core collision that happens when digital dollars scale large enough to threaten the […]
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DeFi exclusions sound protective, yet the CLARITY Act’s Bank Secrecy expansion may target your access points While supporters say the CLARITY Act could bring long-awaited regulatory certainty to crypto markets, not everyone is on board. Critics argue the bill doesn’t need to “ban DeFi” to reshape it. Their claim is that CLARITY can leave base-layer […]
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On Jan. 29, the Senate Agriculture Committee advanced the crypto market-structure bill, giving the legislation known as the “CLARITY Act” its first concrete win in the Senate. The Agriculture panel’s action moves the bill closer to a full Senate fight over which regulator sets the rules for spot crypto markets. However, the bigger near-term problem […]
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Fairshake and its affiliate super PACs announced they have more than $193 million in cash on hand heading into the 2026 midterms. The amount includes $74 million raised since July from three contributors: $25 million from Coinbase, $25 million from Ripple, and $24 million from a16z. The network, consisting of Fairshake plus Protect Progress (Democratic-oriented) […]
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Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman has now released updated crypto market structure text, posting a full bill PDF last night. The release locks in a near-term Senate Agriculture path to markup next week, but it also hardens a political split that could determine whether Senate Banking gets a negotiated bridge or a rival marker for […]
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Bitcoin pricing in 2026 may hinge on officials and executives who set dollar liquidity, US market access, ETF distribution, stablecoin settlement capacity, and exchange venue rules, based on a market-structure framework that prioritizes chokepoints over social reach. The scale of each chokepoint is measurable in flows, assets, and supply, which makes a short watch list […]
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly sparred with crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett this week after she questioned the exchange’s stance on crypto regulation, prompting an exchange that quickly spilled onto social media and reignited tensions between industry leaders and the broader community. Senate Banking postponed its planned Jan. 15 markup of the CLARITY Act, leaving timing […]
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Two senators have introduced a short bill with an unusually big ambition: to stop US law from treating people who write and publish blockchain software as if they were running a shadow payments company. The proposal, titled the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act of 2026, aims to clarify that “non-controlling” developers and infrastructure providers (i.e., those […]
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The US crypto industry believed it stood on the precipice of securing the regulatory legitimacy it has pursued for a decade, but the political ground has suddenly shifted beneath it. On Jan. 14, Sen. Tim Scott, the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, postponed a vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. This delay […]
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On Jan. 13, the US Senate Banking Committee released the full text of the highly anticipated Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) ahead of its expected markup this week. The 278-page draft abandons the strategy of picking winners on a token-by-token basis. Instead, it constructs a comprehensive “lane system” that assigns jurisdiction based on the […]
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Bitcoin investors are bracing for a rare convergence of market forces this week, walking into a gauntlet of three distinct macro and policy catalysts packed into a single 72-hour window. The catalysts include the release of December’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Tuesday, a potentially historic Supreme Court opinion day on Wednesday regarding executive tariff […]
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On Jan. 7, Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) formally applied for a national banking charter to establish the “World Liberty Trust Company.” This is a proposed national trust bank specifically designed to handle USD1 stablecoin issuance, custody, redemption, and reserve management. USD1 is WLFI's flagship product, with more than $3.3 billion in supply across […]
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The US crypto industry has launched a unified push for Congress to pass federal market-structure legislation, known as the “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” (H.R. 3633). The legislation is viewed by industry proponents as the necessary “missing layer” of federal law to allow the industry to thrive. While the “GENIUS Act” established baseline […]
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Crypto companies serving EU residents began collecting tax data on Jan. 1, 2026, under the European Union’s DAC8 rules. That start date has fed viral claims on X that the bloc has “ended crypto privacy.” The European Commission's guidance for DAC8 set Jan. 1, 2026, as the operational start date for data collection. However, many […]
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The US Supreme Court returns from a four-week break on Jan. 9 with a potentially consequential economic ruling: whether the President Donald Trump administration lawfully imposed sweeping tariffs under emergency powers, or whether those duties on hundreds of billions in imports violated Congressional limits. Prediction markets give the government only a 23% to 30% chance […]
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The FSTB and SFC concluded consultations on virtual regimes and plan to introduce new bill to LegCo next year.
David Sacks announced on Dec. 18 that Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott and Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman confirmed a January 2026 markup for the CLARITY Act. “We look forward to finishing the job in January!” The problem: a January markup isn't finishing anything. It's the opening move in a multi-year pipeline where the most […]
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The Sejm passed the same version of the Crypto-Asset Market Act previously rejected by President Nawrocki, escalating political tensions.
Next year's first quarter could prove kinder to Bitcoin than late 2025, not because bank-run stablecoins arrive overnight, but because the pipes feeding retail and advisors just widened. Vanguard reversed its crypto ban, opening spot ETF access to roughly 50 million clients. Bank of America advisors can now recommend crypto allocations of 1% to 4% […]
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Legislation will be introduced into Parliament on Monday extending existing financial regulation to crypto companies.
The Polish government reintroduced crypto legislation without changing a single period, after telling the president he needs to sign it to avoid Russian-linked security threats.
Belarus expanded platform blocking in December, tightening access to exchanges and reinforcing a High-Tech Park perimeter for residents. The move fits a wider access playbook across EMEA and APAC that now uses telecom blocklists, app-store removals, and KYC gates to shape who reaches the same BTC and USDT order books. The practical result is a […]
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The House’s new fiscal 2026 defense bill directs the Pentagon to develop options to impose costs on state-backed hackers who target defense-critical infrastructure in cyberspace. Section 1543 of the chamber’s amendment orders the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, highlighted by Jason Lowery, in consultation with […]
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The year is 2075. The judge does not ask for a deed. She asks for a transaction ID. The landlord’s lawyer queues up a Bitcoin transaction from fifteen years earlier that moved a token representing the property. The tenant’s lawyer concedes the transaction exists, yet claims the signature was obtained under duress. Everyone in the […]
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