Policy, courts and regulators shaping crypto around the world.
The U.S. State Department is launching the Freedom Tech Excellence Program with the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Palantir as founding partners to protect free expression online.
The EU has formally sanctioned crypto exchange HTX among 18 entities accused of helping Russia evade Western financial restrictions, following UK action in May 2026.
The OCC rejected Wise's US national trust bank charter over money-laundering concerns while approving charters for Ripple and other crypto firms. Wise plans to refile under the GENIUS Act.
The Bank of the Philippine Islands is partnering with Meridian to pilot stablecoin settlement rails for OFW and freelancer payroll, with a full rollout timed to the 49th ASEAN Summit.
A proposed class action filed July 23 accuses BitMEX of forced-liquidation fraud worth 622.66 BTC — filed the same day HDR Global Trading announced the exchange's September 23 closure.
Coinbase launches infrastructure for businesses to accept USDC payments from AI agents autonomously, with x402 protocol settling in 200ms and Amazon Bedrock integration.
Gemini and the Winklevoss twins donated $10M in Bitcoin to a Trump super PAC while filing a joint motion with the CFTC to reverse a $5M settlement.
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, Amazon's Japanese logistics partner, will pay ~2,300 contractor drivers in JPYC yen-pegged stablecoin — Japan's first large-scale corporate stablecoin payroll.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon publicly endorses the CLARITY Act, breaking with much of the banking industry as Senate Republicans push crypto market-structure legislation forward.
The Trump White House has accused Beijing's Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, threatening sanctions over industrial-scale AI knowledge theft.
