Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss says the United States is moving toward “clear rules” for cryptocurrency, arguing that years of regulatory uncertainty are giving way to a more defined framework for digital assets.Winklevoss made the comments as Washington works through a combination of congressional legislation and regulatory initiatives intended to establish clearer boundaries for crypto exchanges,
South Korea has emerged as East Asia’s largest cryptocurrency economy, receiving an estimated $449.1 billion in onchain digital-asset value over the 12 months through June 2026, according to new data from Chainalysis.The figure covers cryptocurrency value received between July 2025 and June 2026 and places South Korea ahead of the region’s other major crypto markets. It
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig has cited Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, Stellar, Tezos and XRP as examples of digital commodities, providing unusually explicit guidance on how the agency views several of the largest blockchain assets.Selig named BTC, ETH, SOL, XLM, XTZ and XRP while discussing the CFTC’s role in digital-asset markets and the need
Brazil has moved the date when banks and payment institutions must stop facilitating virtual-asset operations with non-compliant crypto counterparties from 30 October to 6 November, while the Banco Central do Brasil prepares an official list of firms in transition under the new licensing regime.The change comes through Resolution BCB 589, published in the Diário Oficial
Strategy estimates it recorded a $20.91 billion gain on its digital assets in the third quarter, giving MSTR investors an unusually detailed preview of the impact of Bitcoin’s rebound several weeks before the company reports its full quarterly results.The estimate appeared in Strategy’s October 5 Form 8-K alongside its regular Bitcoin-purchase disclosure. The weekly purchase
Follow-upThe XRP Ledger’s Permission Delegation upgrade did not activate on October 5 as several earlier reports had projected, after its two-week validator approval clock was reset in late September.The amendment, PermissionDelegationV1_1, remains disabled. A fresh validator roll call at 17:16 UTC on October 5 showed support from 29 of the XRP Ledger’s 35 trusted validators,
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun a rulemaking process that could give cryptocurrency exchanges a federal route for offering leveraged, margined and financed crypto trading to retail customers, moving ahead under its existing authority after Congress failed to advance broader market-structure legislation.The agency on Monday issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking covering Regulation
Strive bought another 2,000 bitcoin for approximately $168.8 million last week, its largest purchase since June, lifting its corporate treasury to 29,462 BTC and bringing the company within roughly 6,100 BTC of MARA.The Nasdaq-listed company acquired the bitcoin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 at an average price of $84,422, including fees and expenses. The
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is withdrawing two long-running crypto rule proposals that would have expanded reporting around cryptocurrency mixers and self-hosted wallets, ending measures first proposed in 2023 and 2020 without changing financial institutions’ existing obligations.The more recent proposal would have designated international convertible virtual currency mixing as a class of transactions of
The number of unique wallets sending peer-to-peer stablecoin transactions in China increased 43-fold between the first quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of 2026, according to Chainalysis, showing rapid growth in direct wallet-to-wallet activity despite the country’s continuing restrictions on cryptocurrency trading.Chainalysis recorded $104.1 billion across 18.1 million transfers involving self-custodied stablecoin holdings during