MSCI Purges Bitcoin Treasury Companies from Global Indexes
MSCI excludes bitcoin treasury companies from global indexes, triggering $2.8B in passive sell-offs. Strategy and Metaplanet face November 30 deadline.
MSCI excludes bitcoin treasury companies from global indexes, triggering $2.8B in passive sell-offs. Strategy and Metaplanet face November 30 deadline.
Stablecoins can lose their dollar peg when reserves fall short or panic causes redemption runs. Learn how reserve mechanics and ratios prevent depegging.
Standard Chartered's Oct 12 RLUSD custody signals institutional adoption. $765M Q3 growth shows banking partnerships now drive stablecoin market expansion.
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
Treasury's GENIUS Act proposal includes vague participation liability that could penalize exchanges listing new stablecoins. Comment deadline October 19.
UK court ruling narrows victims' path to $5B seized bitcoin. Chinese law may limit 16,000 claimants to their £500M net loss, not the £3.8B current value.
Kalshi is investigating three bets totaling $173 that correctly predicted Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary hours before the announcement.
Thailand crypto ETF rules take effect October 16 with a margin loan ban. Brokers cannot extend credit, contrasting with Hong Kong's approach.
The IRS updated staking guidance on October 6, reversing three 2025 restrictions. Trusts can now use multiple custodians and face narrower slashing rules.
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.
Treasury sanctions revealed A7 Network ran $179B crypto token channel and $17B banking network simultaneously from early 2025 through mid-2026.
The SEC's October 1 proposal allows investment advisers to hold client crypto but requires 90-day custodian checks, dual approvals, and annual audits.
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.
Goldman Sachs opened its $100 billion Treasury fund to crypto firms via Lynq, but chose traditional settlement over tokenization unlike BlackRock.
Robinhood CEO claims America's first perpetual futures despite Coinbase launching in July 2025. CFTC's May 2026 approval enabled both platforms.
Crypto regulation is now where the biggest stories actually happen. The market moves on what the SEC, CFTC, Treasury, Congress, and their counterparts in Brussels, London, Singapore, and Seoul decide next. The coverage here tracks the full picture: SEC enforcement actions and the cases that set precedent, the CLARITY Act and other market structure bills working through Congress, MiCA implementation across the EU, stablecoin frameworks in the US and abroad, tax guidance from the IRS, OFAC sanctions targeting mixers and bad actors, licensing regimes in jurisdictions that actually matter for global liquidity, and the state-level battles in places like New York and Texas that often move faster than federal action. Personnel matters too. Who chairs the SEC, who runs the CFTC enforcement division, which senators sit on banking committees. Coinliva follows the rule changes, the lawsuits, the comment letters, the testimony, and the political shifts that turn into real policy. Not just headlines about what was proposed, but what actually got passed, what got dropped, what the market did when the news broke, and what comes next on the calendar.