Regulation


Policy

Invesco Drops Efforts to Launch Bitcoin Futures ETF

A competing product by ProShares will start trading on Tuesday.

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Former SEC Official Expects More Bitcoin ETF Approvals

Lisa Bragança said the agency doesn’t want to have just one.

Former SEC attorney Lisa Bragança on CoinDesk TV (Screenshot/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Learns to Play the DC Influence Game

The infrastructure bill was the first shot in a long battle on Capitol Hill. But do lobbyists in Washington really understand crypto?

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Is Too Big for Partisan Politics

The industry enjoys broad support among the American people, and that should be reflected by our elected officials, too.

(Khashayar Kouchpeydeh/Unsplash)

Policy

Rep. Tom Emmer Wants Stablecoins Over CBDCs – Interview

The Minnesota congressman is fighting what he sees as the “over-regulation” of the crypto industry and he’s no fan of a central bank-issued digital dollar.

Rep. Tom Emmer

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Introducing Crypto 2022: Policy Week

Introducing a week of content about how regulators are shaping the digital assets industry (or trying). Find it all here.

Policy Week by CoinDesk (CoinDesk)

Policy

CFTC Fines Tether and Bitfinex $42.5M for ‘Untrue or Misleading’ Claims

The U.S. regulator issued an order “simultaneously filing and settling charges against Tether,” the issuer of the crypto industry’s largest stablecoin.

Rostin Behnam, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, from left, Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and Jelena McWilliams, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, walk to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 21, 2021. President Biden is meeting with the nation's top financial regulators for an update on the state of the country's financial systems and institutions. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Policy

Crypto Finally Makes the Cut in OCC’s 2022 Bank Supervision Operating Plan

Though the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has been looking into the crypto industry since at least 2018, this is the first time crypto has been included in the regulator’s annual operating plan.

OCC

Finance

Coinbase Wants Coders to Help With Its Crypto Regulation Proposal

A GitHub repository went live Thursday in a bid to make open source a proposed framework to U.S. officials.

(Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)