Nigeria Approved Tokenized Stocks. The Venue Trades 31 Times a Day.
Nigeria cleared tokenized stocks for its OTC exchange NASD. The venue traded N65.2 million across 31 deals on August 3, near $47,900.
Nigeria cleared tokenized stocks for its OTC exchange NASD. The venue traded N65.2 million across 31 deals on August 3, near $47,900.
South Korea's crypto tax lands January 2027, but exchange volume already fell 54.6% in the first half of 2026. The missing rule is on losses.
Russia bars crypto mining in Moscow until 2032. The one gigawatt behind the decree works out to 3.5% to 5.7% of global hashrate.
Minnesota's crypto kiosk ban and its bank custody law took effect on the same August 1 date, and the two statutes point in opposite directions.
The SEC stayed Nasdaq bitcoin options after a CME petition. The contract settles on a CME CF benchmark, and statements are due August 24.
The CFTC order shows George Santos cleared $3,448 on the yes side of his own attendance market and $14,390 on the no side in four days.
The Bank of Italy sent USDC down ten routes and priced every leg. Stablecoin remittances ran 0.30% to 8.96%, and the chain took 0.4%.
New York's petition against Kalshi lists $36 billion at minimum, more than the entire on-chain World Cup prediction market. The CFTC filed first.
Vietnam fines unlicensed crypto trading from September 1, 2026. Not one local exchange holds a license yet, and the retail figure is disputed.
The EU MiCA license register reached 309 firms in July. Poland, which registered thousands of crypto companies, still holds none of them.
In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
Kentucky sued Kalshi and Polymarket as illegal sportsbooks on June 17, the same day a Michigan judge ruled sports prediction markets aren't under the CFTC, denting the industry's federal shield.
Dropped lawsuits, new ETFs, a token taxonomy, and a joint framework with the CFTC. Paul Atkins delivered almost everything the crypto industry asked for. But prediction markets just landed on his desk as an unresolved jurisdictional fight.
The FSC's emergency inspection found three of South Korea's five major platforms reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. The trigger: Bithumb crediting 620,000 BTC — roughly $56 billion — to 249 users instead of 620,000 Korean won. Regulators have now mandated five-minute reconciliation cycles, automatic kill switches, monthly external audits, and daily public disclosure of results. The deadline is May 2026.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
Operating without Bank of Russia registration could bring up to seven years in prison. The Supreme Court says the bill is premature until a broader digital currency law takes effect in July.