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Bitcoin bounced and global stocks clawed back some of their recent losses on Friday as investors assessed the US Treasury’s efforts to push down long-term borrowing costs.

Congress designed a dual regulatory structure that splits oversight between federal and state authorities based on issuer size and type, giving regulators new supervisory tools but also creating potential jurisdictional complexity, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, published Aug. 20.

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) shares rose nearly 4.9% in pre-market trading on Friday as renewed optimism over US cryptocurrency regulation fuelled buying across digital asset-related stocks.

With congressional efforts to enact comprehensive crypto legislation—including the CLARITY Act—stalled for the time being, the SEC has made its own rule proposal based on Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets, Release No. 33-11412 (Mar. 23, 2026), input from its Crypto Task Force,…

Over the course of June 2025, both the Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published policy statements setting out the UK’s framework for regulating stablecoins. These policy statements followed a period of consultation, during which both regulators adapted their proposals amid significant feedback from a broad spectrum of stakeholders across…

President Donald Trump says regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid into the US in a fully compliant and legal fashion. HYPE, the exchange’s native token, jumped more than 6% within hours.

Kalshi filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch perpetual futures tied to a major US stock index and to copper, extending a leverage-trading structure it pioneered in Bitcoin (BTC) earlier this year.

With Congress moving slowly, regulators are preparing rules that could reshape the crypto market now—yet leave businesses exposed to another political reversal.

The US Treasury Department has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that sets out the proposed rules for implementing Title III of the GENIUS Act. The document primarily addresses who, where, and under what conditions may issue payment stablecoins in the US, as well as when they may be offered to US users.

Prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have grown rapidly in recent years, with billions of dollars’ worth of event contracts now traded annually. Along with that rapid growth have come questions about how these markets should be regulated and taxed.