The Federal Reserve released a formal proposal on May 20, 2026 establishing limited payment accounts for eligible non-bank financial firms, including crypto and fintech companies, giving them direct connectivity to key payment infrastructure under a defined set of constraints.

South Carolina's Governor has signed S.0163 into law, a bill introduced on January 14, 2025 that establishes protections for digital asset users, miners, and self-custody holders while prohibiting state authorities from accepting or facilitating central bank digital currency.

As MiCA raises Europe’s entry bar, crypto firms are reassessing EU ambitions and turning to flexible hubs like El Salvador, Costa Rica, and the BVI as they seek growth without regulatory overexposure.

The Bank of England proposed stablecoin limits that the industry called unenforceable, that economists called overkill, and that quietly ignored how the technology actually works. Eleven months later, the central bank dropped them.

The crypto market structure bill cleared its first major legislative hurdle on Thursday, advancing from the Senate Banking Committee with the bipartisan margin that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong had predicted ahead of the vote.

Brian Armstrong recorded a ninety-second update from the Senate office building on Wednesday, and the substance behind the brevity is worth unpacking.

Five crypto-linked stocks posted strong 24-hour gains on May 5, but the CLARITY Act drove Circle's 20% move while Bitcoin drove the rest.

For years, stablecoins occupied an awkward middle ground in financial debates - too small for central banks to treat seriously, too large for regulators to ignore comfortably.

Cardano and Midnight founder Charles Hoskinson says that the Clarity Act, in its current form, is not just incomplete, it is potentially more dangerous than having no legislation at all.

The Russian government has submitted a bill to the State Duma that would establish criminal liability for operating cryptocurrency services without a license from the Bank of Russia.

Pakistan replaced its 2018 crypto ban on April 14 with a regulated framework allowing banks to serve licensed VASPs - formalizing an estimated $25 billion informal market through deliberately narrow conditions.

The U.S. Senate returned from Easter recess on April 13 with one immediate priority: advancing the CLARITY Act through the Senate Banking Committee before end of April. Miss that window, and the next realistic opportunity may not arrive until after the November midterms.