Treasury Killed Two Crypto Surveillance Rules After Six Years
FinCEN withdrew its 2020 unhosted wallet reporting rule and 2023 mixing proposal on October 5, ending six years of debate over crypto privacy measures.
FinCEN withdrew its 2020 unhosted wallet reporting rule and 2023 mixing proposal on October 5, ending six years of debate over crypto privacy measures.
Solana trackers logged near $112M in September token unlocks. One memecoin, the TRUMP unlock, is over half of the total, and its tokens vest to insiders.
Crypto's Monday rebound evaporated Tuesday after Iran downed a US helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz and the US struck back. Bitcoin slid toward $60,700 as risk assets sold off.
Crypto opened the week green after its worst week since 2024. Strategy resumed buying Bitcoin, SBF filed for a pardon, and MetaMask armed AI agents, with Wednesday's CPI the real test.
Justin Sun put $75M into WLFI and became its biggest early backer. He claims the team secretly added a blacklist function, froze his tokens, and threatened to burn them. The complaint uses the word extortion.
Saturday started with a 297-investor Mar-a-Lago gala for the top TRUMP holders. It ended with the President evacuated from the Washington Hilton after a gunman opened fire. The token absorbed both.
Bloomberg uncovered undisclosed private sales worth hundreds of millions. The token hit a new all-time low the same day. Early investors still cannot sell 80% of what they bought.
BTC is pressing $79K with $630 million in Friday ETF inflows behind it. But liquidity maps are flashing a setup that has burned bulls before.
The sector added $1.08 billion in a single week. Tether lost $271 million of it. USDS gained $503 million. The pecking order is shifting.
The global financial markets, and specifically the crypto sector, are currently caught in a web of conflicting geopolitical signals.
The Altcoin Season Index sits at 47/100. Memecoin Index and DeFi Select Index outperformed the broader market on Monday. Bitcoin needs to reclaim $80,000 and hold it before any of this means anything structural.
He turned $7,600 into $25 million on PEPE. He built an $87 million account on Hyperliquid. He opened a perpetual futures position with $1.25 billion in notional exposure — on roughly $31 million of actual margin. On April 6, 2026, his account had $914 in it. This is the full story of how that happened — and what it reveals about leverage trading in crypto.
Trump Media transferred 2,650 BTC to Crypto.com on May 22, the second major outflow this year. The company originally bought 11,542 BTC for $1.37 billion. It is now sitting on a $455 million unrealized loss, and last week it withdrew its Bitcoin ETF application.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business the US has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto since the war began in February. His phrasing was blunt: "Just outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet has been grabbed." Iran was allegedly moving $400 to $500 million a month through crypto.
Saylor's company bought 13,927 BTC for $1 billion last week through its STRC program. The rally above $77,000 pushed Strategy's 780,897 BTC treasury back into unrealized profit for the first time since early April.
Seven House Democrats sent CFTC Chair Michael Selig a letter demanding answers on suspicious trades tied to U.S. military actions in Iran and Venezuela. The same trades that made anonymous users hundreds of thousands of dollars in minutes.
Donald Trump has become one of the most market-moving names in crypto, from executive-branch policy to the family-linked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) project and the TRUMP memecoin that drew congressional probes after billions in retail losses. This tag tracks the crypto executive orders, the strategic-reserve proposals, the SEC and CFTC personnel shifts under the administration, the conflict-of-interest questions raised by senators over selling access, and the way political headlines now move token prices directly. Coinliva covers the policy moves, the on-chain flows tied to Trump-linked ventures, and the legal challenges that keep this the most politically charged corner of the market.