Regulation
Timely, impact-focused reporting on global crypto laws, enforcement actions, and policy shifts — helping traders and investors understand how new rules shape markets and digital assets.
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SEC Draft Strategic Plan Sets Goal of Regulatory Framework for Digital Assets
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published a draft strategic plan for fiscal years 2026–2030 that outlines the agency’s regulatory and operational priorities, including a commitment to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies.
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CFTC Issues Policy Statement on Perpetual Contracts
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a policy statement outlining its views on the listing of perpetual contracts, stating that perpetual contracts referencing asset classes not contemplated in the Commission's approval of KalshiEX LLC's BTCPERP futures contract should be submitted for review and approval under the voluntary product approval process set out in Commission Regulation 40.3.
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CFTC Staff Confirms Certain Crypto Perpetuals as Foreign Futures
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued an interpretation confirming that certain crypto-asset perpetual contracts offered on Deribit FZE may be categorized as foreign futures under Commission Regulation 30.1 and issued a no-action position regarding the posting of customer-owned digital commodities and payment stablecoins as margin collateral for certain foreign futures and foreign options positions.
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CFTC Approves Kalshi Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Contract
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved KalshiEX LLC’s BTCPERP Contract, a perpetual futures contract that references the spot price of bitcoin, allowing the product to be listed for trading on Kalshi and made available for clearing as a futures contract.
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CFTC Sets Regulatory Expectations for 24/7 Trading and Clearing Operations
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2026 — Staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk, Division of Market Oversight, and Market Participants Division issued an advisory outlining regulatory expectations for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, derivatives clearing organizations, and futures commission merchants seeking to extend trading and clearing operations to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis.
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CFTC Concludes Gemini Enforcement Complaint Should Not Have Been Filed
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Wednesday it joined Gemini Trust Company LLC in a motion for relief from judgment in a long-running enforcement case, concluding after an internal review that the agency’s original complaint “should not have been filed” under current enforcement standards.
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CFTC Charges Google Employee in Polymarket Insider Trading Case
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Wednesday it filed a civil enforcement action against a Google employee accused of using confidential internal search-trend data to trade event contracts on prediction-market platform Polymarket, in a case that adds to U.S. regulatory scrutiny of blockchain-based event markets.
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Singapore Revokes Bsquared Payment Institution Licence After Compliance Failures
SINGAPORE, May 20, 2026 — The Monetary Authority of Singapore revoked the Major Payment Institution licence of Bsquared Technology Pte. Ltd. with effect from May 14, prohibiting the company from providing digital payment token services in Singapore under the Payment Services Act 2019.
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Hong Kong SFC Revises Rules for Funds With Virtual Asset Exposure
HONG KONG, May 27, 2026 — Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission revised its requirements for SFC-authorised investment funds with virtual asset exposure, setting out the conditions under which funds with virtual asset exposure exceeding 10% of net asset value may be offered to the public in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Concludes Consultation on Virtual Asset Advisory and Management Regimes
HONG KONG, May 26, 2026 — Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Securities and Futures Commission said Tuesday they had concluded a consultation on proposed regulatory regimes for virtual asset advisory and management service providers, as Hong Kong continues developing its regulatory framework for digital-asset financial services.
