The U.S. President signed an executive order allowing investments in crypto, private equity, real estate, and other alternative assets within 401(k) retirement plans. These changes affect more than 90 million…

Hong Kong’s financial regulator tightened requirements for the custody of client assets on licensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATP), establishing minimum security standards for custodians. The Hong Kong Securities and…

Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund submitted a petition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposing that decentralized applications (dApps) that don’t perform intermediary functions be exempted…

U.S. senators from the state of Wisconsin introduced a bill aimed at imposing strict requirements on cryptocurrency ATM operators in the region. The Wisconsin Senate filed Bill 386, designed to…

Financial regulators in China ordered local companies to halt seminars and the publication of research related to stablecoins, citing concerns over fraud and speculation. Chinese authorities instructed brokers, research centers,…

El Salvador passed a law allowing private investment banks to hold Bitcoin and other digital assets on their balance sheets and provide cryptocurrency services to qualified investors. The Legislative Assembly…

The European Banking Authority (EBA) proposed requiring banks in the EU to reserve 1,250% capital for operations involving BTC or ETH and up to 250% for stablecoins. These new requirements…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated that under certain conditions, some operations related to liquid staking don’t fall under federal securities laws. The decision received broad support from…

Algerian authorities officially banned the use, creation, exchange, and storage of any cryptocurrencies. The initiative aims to strengthen control over the national financial system and combat money laundering and terrorism…