SEC's $75 Million Annual Token Path Takes Final Comments Tuesday
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
FinCEN withdrew its 2020 unhosted wallet reporting rule and 2023 mixing proposal on October 5, ending six years of debate over crypto privacy measures.
CFTC proposes rules for margin-based crypto trading while spot markets, the vast majority of retail activity, remain under state regulation.
Crypto firms spent $8 million lobbying for the Clarity Act. It failed 49-50 on September 15. Ethics provisions and banking rules killed it, not crypto law.
The CLARITY Act failed 49-50, but regulators moved ahead with crypto rules. Without Congressional backing, they can be reversed after the next election.
Hester Peirce leaves Oct 2, reducing the SEC to two commissioners. The agency published new crypto guidance the same day she announced her departure.
The Senate killed the Clarity Act on Sept 15. Within 48 hours, SEC and CFTC issued three regulatory frameworks, moving faster than Congress ever did.
The CLARITY Act failed 49-50 on September 15, but Bitcoin ETFs pulled $731M in a single day. Institutional capital moved while Congress stalled on regulation.
Polymarket gives the CLARITY Act a 14.5% chance of becoming law in 2026 even as the Senate schedules a September 15 cloture vote and whales bet against it.
Polymarket prices the CLARITY Act at 13% to become law in 2026 while Kalshi gives the September vote a 91% chance. Its odds fell from 82% in February.
Bitcoin clung to $62,500 in extreme fear, but the day's real moves were elsewhere: the CLARITY Act hit political risk, Wall Street pushed into prediction markets, and Binance faced a June 30 EU deadline.
A new Bitget Wallet and Polymarket report shows monthly prediction market volume hit $25.7 billion in March, up from $1.9 billion a year earlier. Retail users drove over 80% of the activity, and the average user is now active four times more often than they were three months ago.
A White House adviser said at Bitcoin 2026 Las Vegas that a major Strategic Bitcoin Reserve update is coming in weeks. The Lummis-Begich bill that would lock the reserve into law just got renamed and reintroduced. Polymarket still gives it a 23% chance before 2027.
Polymarket hired Chainalysis on April 30 to build an onchain anomaly detection system, days after a U.S. Green Beret pleaded not guilty to a $400,000 insider bet. A new ACDC report shows military markets win at four times the normal longshot rate.
HIP-4 went live on mainnet with zero fees to open and a 1 million HYPE staking requirement for builders. Polymarket charges up to 2% on winners. That gap is the entire pitch.
The venture capital giant filed an 18-page letter telling federal regulators to hold the line. On the other side: a coalition of attorneys general from nearly every state in the country.
Congress sets the legislative direction for US crypto, and the market increasingly moves on what lawmakers propose, pass, or block. This tag tracks the market-structure and stablecoin bills, the hearings and testimony from regulators and executives, the bipartisan and partisan splits that decide whether legislation advances, and the investigations into projects and personalities across the industry. Coinliva covers the bills that matter, the political shifts that turn proposals into law, and the market reaction when major crypto legislation reaches a vote.