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Regulation
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9 pieces on Regulation
What happens to your coins if an exchange goes bankrupt
The answer depends on a legal question most customers never ask: is that balance your property, or the company's?
The real cost of a crypto card, once you price the stake
A headline cashback rate that requires locking up the issuer's own token is not a reward rate. It is a bet, and last year every one of those bets lost.
Is Coinbase safe? What its own filings say
A listed company has to disclose risks its private competitors can leave unsaid. The most useful sentence about Coinbase is one Coinbase wrote.
Senate blocks the CLARITY Act 49–50, leaving market structure to the regulators
Cloture on the motion to proceed failed eleven votes short of sixty. The Democrats who negotiated the text voted against opening debate on it.
Which crypto exchanges can Americans actually use?
State exclusions, separate US platforms with thinner books, and permanent injunctions. The venue you read about is often not the one you can open.
Stablecoin framework clears committee with reserve and audit rules attached
A stablecoin bill has advanced out of committee carrying reserve-quality, attestation and redemption rules — a framework that would legitimize the biggest compliant issuers while squeezing everyone else. Here is what it would require and where the real fights remain.
The EU’s crypto rulebook enters its next compliance phase
Europe's unified crypto framework is shifting from paper to practice, forcing exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers to prove they can operate under bank-style oversight or leave the market.
A national tax authority issues clearer crypto guidance
A national tax authority has sharpened its guidance on how crypto is taxed, spelling out which everyday actions trigger a bill and shifting the record-keeping burden onto users.
Stablecoins are becoming plumbing. Here’s what regulators want next
Once a stablecoin settles real payments at scale, it stops being a trading chip and becomes financial infrastructure. That shift is what regulators are now writing rules to govern.