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Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Says Crypto Use Will Lock In Regulations

September 29, 2026
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SEC’s Crypto Push Could Shift Who Raises Capital and Who Controls Trading
Cryptocurrency // September 28, 2026

Nature abhors a vacuum, and marketplaces do, too. After all, no industry exists in a vacuum. The digital asset space is finding that out in real time, as it enters into an apparent regulatory vacuum after the Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market...

Crypto Lost Its Clarity. Here’s How Industry and Government Are Rebuilding.
Cryptocurrency // September 28, 2026

There’s a changing of the guard taking place across crypto. The Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to advance in the Senate has coincided with a rash of leadership changes across the cryptocurrency establishment. The Blockchain Association is changing chief executives....

SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets
Legal & Regulation // September 28, 2026

The Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on the financial industry to take care in valuing private assets, including private credit, according to a Monday (Sept. 28) statement. “Statement on Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Considerations for Private Assets” was made by SEC Chief Accountant...

5 Crypto Launches That Bet on Clarity but Are Still Going
Cryptocurrency // September 21, 2026

The cryptocurrency industry spent years citing U.S. regulatory clarity as the prerequisite for its next phase of growth. This past week showed the industry may have had the sequence backward. On Sept. 15, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the legislation intended to establish...

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Crypto Lost Its Clarity. Here’s How Industry and Government Are Rebuilding.

September 28, 2026
There’s a changing of the guard taking place across crypto. The Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to advance in the Senate has coincided with a rash of leadership changes across the cryptocurrency establishment. The Blockchain Association is changing chief executives. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce, […]

Vendor Breaches Create a New SEC Compliance Test

May 07, 2026
The public narrative around third-party cyber risk has traditionally focused on downstream fallout. When a software provider or financial services vendor suffered a breach, attention typically shifted to the large...

New SEC Guidance Pushes Stablecoins Closer to Cash Status

February 23, 2026
For banks, broker-dealers, and clearing firms, the primary obstacle to engaging with crypto has rarely been philosophical skepticism. It has instead been the 800-pound-gorilla in the room made up of...

Senate Sets Dueling Markups for High-Stakes Crypto Market Regulation

January 09, 2026
This January is crunch time for the Senate on cryptocurrency market regulation efforts. After years of fits and starts on Capitol Hill, including key wins like the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act,...

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Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Says Crypto Use Will Lock In Regulations

September 29, 2026
Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce believes that as people get used to using cryptocurrencies under newly implemented rules, it will be harder to take those technologies away from them in the future, she told The Block in an interview posted Monday (Sept. 28). Peirce shared a letter announcing her resignation from […]

SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets

September 28, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on the financial industry to take care in valuing private assets, including private credit, according to a Monday (Sept. 28) statement. “Statement on...

SEC Readies Updated Rule for Crypto Custody

August 26, 2026
Federal securities regulators issued a proposal on updated cryptocurrency custody rules for investment advisors. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent its proposal to the White House’s Office of Management...

Kalshi Asks SEC to Slow Product Launches From Rival Cboe

August 25, 2026
Prediction market Kalshi reportedly wants federal regulators to delay products from rival Cboe Global Markets. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Aug. 25) from Bloomberg News, which calls this the latest example of the growing...