Crypto exchange Blockchain.com has secured registration with UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enabling it to offer crypto services to customers there. Blockchain.com can now provide brokerage, custody, and institutional services under one of the world's strictest regulatory frameworks. For users, this means more protection and oversight of their funds. Founded in the UK in 2011, Blockchain.com has processed over $1.2 trillion in crypto transactions and served 90 million wallets global ...

The Chinese government’s decision to ban most yuan-pegged stablecoins and real-world assets will impact the entire world, Chinese analysts claim. Real-world assets, or RWAs, are tokenised property rights in tangible or intangible assets — including property, bonds, commodities such as gold, and artworks — issued on blockchain networks. Implementing China’s new, enhanced regulatory policies “will have a comprehensive impact” on all cryptocurrency-related industries, Wang Peng, an associate research fello ...

Well, welcome back. Good Friday morning everybody. Thanks so much for joining us this morning and I hope you're having a good morning.I'm Maria Barter Romo and it is Friday, February 6. It is 8 a. m.on the button on the East Coast. Coming up this hour in just moments from now, we will talk with the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Paul Atkins will join me right here coming up. And then at 8:30, don't miss Kansas Senator Roger Marshall on deck.all ahead. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, me ...

Billionaires managing multi-trillion-dollar portfolios are bullish on a future that is tokenized. They expect real estate, bonds, currencies, and pretty much everything of value to float on public ledgers like Ethereum and Solana in the coming months. Tokenization of fiat, like the USD and Euro, has been a huge success. As of February 6, over $308Bn of stablecoins, most of them tracking the greenback, are in circulation on Ethereum and other popular smart contract platforms. (Source: Coingecko) Given t ...

Gemini has announced that it will cease operations in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia marking another high-profile exit as the country transitions to a stricter regulatory regime for digital asset firms. The exchange will also be winding down operations in the European Union and Australia. In a notice sent to customers, Gemini said UK operations will formally end on 6 April 2026, with all UK customer accounts placed into withdrawal-only mode from 5 March 2026. The exchange advised users to eith ...

Government crypto operations are the stuff of lore, from the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, architect of the dark web marketplace Silk Road, to the multinational effort to take down child exploitation site Welcome to Video. (One of the latter operation’s leading agents, Chris Janczewski , is head of global investigations at TRM.)For Jarod Koopman, a longtime agent at the IRS, blockchain analytics has been part of the job for over a decade. “Without third-party tools, it would be infinitely more time-consuming and ...

Big picture when it comes to any kind of regulation, when it comes to crypto is what's going on with the crypto market structure bill. And the big sticking point at this moment is whether crypto companies can give some reward points or yield on stablecoin balances. You've said that the crypto industry is going to lose the battle against the banking lobby on this.Why is that, Mike. I know there are a lot of banks. They've done this a long time.They're good at lobbying. They have community banks. They're cous ...

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the market structure bill moving through Congress would make the United States the "gold standard" for crypto regulation, arguing that clear rules are long overdue for digital asset markets. Selig said the U.S. has lacked clear digital asset oversight and that new legislation would provide "token taxonomy" and defined jurisdiction to move markets forward. SEC CHAIR ATKINS, CFTC CHAIR SELIG: TEAM TRUMP READIES CRYPTO PLAN SO AMERICANS CAN COUNT ON THEIR FUTURE"The goal [of th ...

The newly appointed Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Michael Selig, has signaled a major shift toward clearer federal oversight of crypto-linked prediction markets, according to a report from Clear Street analyst Owen Lau. In his first public remarks as CFTC Chair, Selig outlines a vision of closer coordination with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to unlock innovation across blockchain-based markets. Speaking at a joint SEC–CFTC Harmonization Event, Selig sa ...

A deepening dispute over tokenized stocks threatens to derail Washington’s push for comprehensive crypto regulation as industry executives split over language in the Senate Banking Committee’s portion of the landmark digital assets bill. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called the contested section a “de facto ban” on tokenized equities earlier this month, while traditional finance stalwarts, including Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities, argue firms should follow identical rules whether dealing in blockchain-ba ...