Macro & Regulation

CFTC Warning Hits Prediction Markets as Insider Trading Scrutiny Grows

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has warned that insider trading rules apply to prediction markets, and David Miller, the agency’s enforcement director, said...

Stablecoin yield is being pushed out of the banking frame and deeper into DeFi

Stablecoin yield is not going away. But it is being forced to migrate. That is the real takeaway from the latest U.S. policy fight,...

The ECB is questioning whether DeFi is really decentralized

The European Central Bank is sending a fairly clear message to crypto: if your project is not actually decentralized, it may not stay outside...

Canada’s crypto donation crackdown and the Trump family probe show political crypto is entering its accountability era

Crypto likes to present itself as financial freedom technology. As something huge. Politics tends to look at the same thing and see a potential...

Washington State’s Kalshi lawsuit shows prediction markets are becoming a federal-state power struggle

When a platform wants to look like both a trading venue and a place where you can “bet on anything,” a legal fight is...

The White House may be opening America’s biggest retirement market to crypto

Crypto getting into a 401(k) would matter more than most new token launches combined. It would push the asset class into the place where...

Coinbase is fighting the stablecoin bill again, and exposing the deepest conflict inside crypto lobbying

A lot of people still imagine crypto lobbying as one industry pushing in one direction against Washington. That was always too simple, and now...

The CFTC’s new task force shows crypto, AI, and prediction markets are no longer separate regulatory problems

Most people still think crypto regulation is about token listings, ETF approvals, or the occasional enforcement case. That was true a few years ago....

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