During a press conference last month, Powell said banks can serve crypto customers as long as they can manage the risk.
House Financial Services Committee Republican Chair French Hill released draft legislation to regulate stablecoins.
FDIC Acting Chairman Travis Hill said the agency is overhauling its crypto approach, just as U.S. senators examined regulators keeping banks out of crypto.
"I don't think for a second that you should be locked out of our banking system," said Senator Elizabeth Warren, a noted crypto critic.
David Sacks and the leaders of the congressional committees that will handle crypto legislation outlined their plans at a press conference.
Work is already underway to regulate stablecoins, with Sen. Bill Hagerty introducing a bill on Tuesday to create a regulatory framework.
Coinbase said it wants three top federal banking agencies to take certain steps to end alleged debanking in the crypto industry.
Banks will limit their crypto exposure as long as anti-money laundering risks are at play, according to investment bank TD Cowen.
Crypto-focused PAC Fairshake is gearing up for the 2026 midterms with $116 million at the ready, according to multiple reports.
Coinbase has strengthened its Global Advisory Council with four political and financial heavyweights, signaling a deeper push into policymaking.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis accused the U.S. SEC under former Chair Gary Gensler of undermining lawmakers' efforts to regulate crypto.
The House Oversight and the Senate Banking committees are probing accusations that U.S. regulators blocked crypto insiders from banking.
Led by Senator Cynthia Lummis, arguably crypto's most loyal friend in Congress, the Senate Banking Committee's new digital assets panel includes other fans.
President Donald Trump has picked Mark Uyeda, one of the SEC's top officials, to lead the agency until a permanent chair is confirmed.
The launch of Trump's memecoin days before his inauguration is being received poorly by both crypto pundits and critics in Washington.
Sen. Lummis is threatening criminal repercussions over allegations that the FDIC is destroying digital asset related materials.
The next few weeks are shaping up to be a whirlwind as Trump returns to Washington D.C. with plans to issue executive orders and much more.
Senator Tim Scott said the Senate will tackle crypto bills, and the incoming chair of the House Financial Services Committee said he hopes to pass them in 2025.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been held up as the crypto industry's chief opponent in Congress, and she's now ascending to the role as the top Democrat in the Senate Banking Committee, where she'll be heard from on the digital assets legislation that likely needs a sign-off from that panel.
The two Republican senators claimed that if their party wins control of the Senate, they will stop the SEC’s “regulation by enforcement.”
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee who may be in position to be its next chairman, argued at a Bitcoin 2024 appearance on Friday that the government should "make it easy" for the crypto industry to innovate in the U.S.
Ohio's U.S. Senate race may be the biggest congressional contest this year for the crypto industry, now pitting a digital assets booster against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the sitting Senate Banking Committee chairman who has stood in the way of the development of regulatory legislation.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's admission that it misrepresented evidence in a lawsuit against the blockchain project DEBT Box casts doubt on its wider enforcement practices, several Republican senators argued in a letter to Chair Gary Gensler.