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2026-04-05 · politics — While the federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve sits idle at 328K BTC with no acquisition mandate, Texas, New Hampshire, and Arizona have already passed state-level Bitcoin reserve laws. Ohio, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have bills in committee. The states are moving faster than Washington.
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2026-04-02 · politics — The SEC and CFTC jointly classified 16 tokens as digital commodities on March 17, ending years of regulatory ambiguity. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and 12 others now have a clear legal identity. Here's what the 68-page ruling actually says and why it matters.
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2026-03-31 · politics — Asia's three largest non-Chinese crypto markets are writing their rulebooks simultaneously - and reaching wildly different conclusions. South Korea bans leverage trading. Japan cuts crypto taxes to 20%. India quietly unbans exchanges while keeping its 30% flat tax. The regulatory arbitrage is just beginning.
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2026-03-28 · politics — CFTC Chairman Selig moves to bring crypto perpetual futures - a $100B daily market that exists almost entirely offshore - back to regulated US exchanges.
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2026-03-27 · politics — SEC Chairman Atkins outlined a three-path safe harbor giving crypto projects up to four years before full securities regulation. The biggest change since Howey.
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2026-03-26 · politics — A bipartisan deal on stablecoin yield could deliver crypto's first market structure law. Senate Banking Committee markup targeted for late April.
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2026-03-25 · politics — Hong Kong grants stablecoin licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered - the same banks that print the city's physical banknotes. 36 applications filed.
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2026-03-24 · politics — The SEC and CFTC issued their first joint guidance classifying 16 cryptocurrencies as digital commodities. Combined with the Senate's CBDC ban, a seismic shift.
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2026-03-20 · politics — MiCA is fully enforced across 27 EU member states. Compliant exchanges gain share, Tether faces an existential challenge, and DeFi routes around the rules.