
The SEC Cancels Its "Reg Crypto" Meeting and Shelves the Innovation Exemption
The SEC called off the Friday meeting that was to propose Regulation Crypto, shelving its tokenization exemption with no new date. COIN and HOOD fell.
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The SEC called off the Friday meeting that was to propose Regulation Crypto, shelving its tokenization exemption with no new date. COIN and HOOD fell.

A Sunshine Act notice sets an SEC open meeting for Friday 14 August, with a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto, a tailored offering regime for token projects.

A Connecticut federal judge denied Kalshi's injunction bid and ruled its sports contracts are not swaps, the second state-law defeat in three weeks.

Flowdesk Omega FZE received Dubai VARA's full broker-dealer licence for qualified and institutional investors, about two months after its in-principle approval.

Japan's financial regulator stood up a dedicated crypto and stablecoin division on 7 August, folding in its monitoring office and adding innovation and digital-payment units.

Three Binance-linked entities filed a Hong Kong claim against RedotPay's co-founders, alleging 470,000 diverted users and $304M of misrouted Binance Pay funds.

New York's financial regulator granted Circle a limited-purpose trust charter on July 31, three weeks after the issuer won a federal trust bank approval.

Singapore pushed Basel-aligned crypto capital rules to January 2027 and told locally incorporated banks to report cryptoasset exposure in the meantime.

Futu opened a real-time BNB order book under the SFC's virtual asset regime, restricted to Professional Investors holding at least HK$8 million.

CFTC staff told exchanges to stop bundling event contracts into template self-certifications. Letter 26-22 requires each to be filed in full under Rule 40.2.

A King County judge barred Kalshi from offering event contracts to Washington residents, holding that federal commodities law does not displace state gambling law.

The GENIUS Act turns one this week, leaving Tether until July 2028 to move a reserve that CoinDesk puts at roughly a quarter non-compliant into cash and Treasuries.