The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a temporary, conditional exemptive relief order that allows Tokenised Securities Venues to trade tokenised NMS stocks using permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools, without being classified as an exchange under the Exchange Act. Moreover, the order, dubbed the “Innovation Exemption,” marks
According to the former chairman of the CFTC, J. Christopher Giancarlo, the failure of the Senate’s CLARITY Act does not mean that innovation in crypto will be stopped in the United States. In an interview with Eleanor Terrett, Giancarlo mentioned that the regulators will still work on creating frameworks for
Coinbase, America’s leading regulated centralized crypto exchange, has taken a regulatory step toward bringing single-stock perpetual contracts to the U.S. market by filing notice registrations with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its derivatives exchange and brokerage business. The crypto exchange confirmed the move in a post on X
Paul Atkins, the chair of the SEC, has framed the Regulation Crypto Assets as an answer to years of ambiguity. The regulation will make the American market more welcoming for crypto-based firms and innovators. According to Atkins, the former administration was too aggressive in its enforcement efforts and thus pushed
Crypto Council for Innovation is advocating for a modernized framework for ETP by the Securities and Exchange Commission. CCI is calling for more clarity and predictability in the process of obtaining approvals for innovative ETPs. The suggestions from CCI were presented on August 31 concerning the framework for novel ETFs
The committed equity facility of Hyperliquid Strategies with Chardan Capital Markets has been increased to $2.5 billion from $1 billion. This development allows the digital asset treasury company to have more flexibility to secure funds by issuing stocks in the future. The information has been revealed by the company in
Users of Robinhood Wallet and social trading app Fomo discovered they could purchase meme coins, including dogwifhat (WIF). They can use Visa and Mastercard credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, without completing any separate KYC identity verification. The transactions went through, earned standard credit card points and cash back,
This brings Grayscale closer to introducing the first US exchange-traded fund to invest in Zcash directly. The company filed for the fifth amended registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently. The plan is to transform the Grayscale Zcash Trust into an investment spot ETF. This new filing
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally proposed “Regulation Crypto Assets”, a tailored framework that would create clear pathways for crypto projects to raise capital under federal securities laws without going through the full SEC registration process. Moreover, the SEC Chairman Paul Atkins framed the proposal directly: the
On August 7, 2026, Grayscale Investments filed three Form RW submissions with the SEC. It withdrew the S-1 registration statements for the Grayscale Cardano Trust ETF, Grayscale Hedera Trust ETF, and Grayscale Polkadot Trust ETF, all within minutes of each other. The Cardano and Polkadot registrations dated back to August
