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Crypto

The SEC Has Asked 27 Questions About the Next Generation of Crypto Funds, and You Have Until 31 August to Answer

A proceeding opened on 30 June is deciding what exchange traded funds holding unusual assets may look like. Two designs dominate it: funds that earn staking rewards, and funds tracking small altcoins. The comment period closes in days.

Aug 24, 2026/4 min read

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Crypto

The Rulebook for Stablecoins Missed Its Own Deadline, and the Compliance Date Did Not Move

Six federal agencies were required to finalise the GENIUS Act rules by 18 July. They did not. The law still takes effect on 18 January 2027, which leaves issuers building to a rulebook that has not been written.

Aug 24, 2026/4 min read

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Crypto

Bitcoin Went From $64,000 to Almost $80,000 in Three Sessions, and the Trigger Was a Treasury Announcement

From Wednesday to Friday the price rose more than twenty two per cent, the strongest week in over three years, helped by a record short squeeze of about 2.7 billion dollars. Very little of the explanation is about cryptocurrency.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read

Crypto

Ether Rose Seventeen Per Cent in a Day on a Piece of Legislation That Has Not Passed

The SEC proposed a framework, the president pushed the Senate on the Clarity Act, and the market moved before either was settled. What the bill would actually decide is the oldest unanswered question in the industry.

Aug 21, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

More Than a Third of Ether Is Locked Up, and That Cuts Both Ways

Staking and long-term holding have taken a large share of ether out of circulation. It is read as conviction. It is also a thinner market, and thin markets move faster in both directions.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

Binance Stops Processing Transactions With Eleven Platforms From 23 August

The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

Crypto

A Federal Regulator Ordered a Betting Market to Keep Trading in a State That Sued It

On 11 August the CFTC used emergency powers to keep Kalshi running nationwide. A week earlier a Washington judge told it to block local users. Both cannot be right, and that is now the whole fight.

Aug 16, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

Self-Custody: What Holding Your Own Keys Actually Means

Not your keys, not your coins is a slogan with real consequences on both sides. Self-custody removes counterparty risk and replaces it with your own operational discipline, which is not obviously the better trade.

Aug 10, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

Sixteen Tokens Got Reclassified. Here Is What That Actually Settled

A joint classification named sixteen assets as digital commodities outside securities law. It resolved a long-running fight for those tokens and left the harder question completely open.

Aug 8, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

Crypto's Market Makers Are Quietly Becoming Regulated Brokers

A leading crypto market maker registered a US broker-dealer arm and a very large custodian moved towards institutional staking. Neither made headlines. Both change who is allowed to participate.

Aug 7, 2026/3 min read

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Crypto

Crypto's Big Rulebook Is Stuck, and the Delay Now Costs Money

The bill meant to divide SEC and CFTC authority cleared the House and a Senate committee, then stopped. No floor vote, no cloture motion, no date, and firms are compliance planning into a vacuum.

Aug 4, 2026/4 min read

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