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An 8-K filed June 22 reports Strive, Inc. bought 759 bitcoin at roughly $65,850 each over a one-week window and now holds 19,864 BTC alongside $144.5 million in cash and equivalents.
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Custody of a digital asset is not about holding a certificate in a vault. It is about controlling the private key that can move the asset on the ledger. Here is how the SEC frames the problem.
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FinCEN guidance treats many crypto businesses as money transmitters subject to the Bank Secrecy Act. Here is how the agency defines an exchanger and an administrator, and what triggers the rules.
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Federal rulemaking implementing the GENIUS Act sets out what a payment stablecoin issuer must hold against its tokens. Here is what the proposed regulation says about reserves, redemption, and disclosure.
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The CFTC has stated that bitcoin and other virtual currencies are commodities under federal law. Here is the statutory basis for that position and the limits of what it means.
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Whether a digital asset is a security turns on a decades-old Supreme Court test the SEC has applied to crypto in published guidance. Here is what the test asks and where the SEC says it points.
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A zero-knowledge proof lets one party convince another that a statement is true while disclosing nothing beyond that fact. Here is what the cryptographic primitive does, drawn from NIST's privacy-enhancing cryptography project.
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Proof of stake decides who publishes the next block by how much cryptocurrency a participant has locked up, not by how much computing power they burn. Here is how the mechanism works, drawn from the NIST overview.
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Strip away the marketing and a blockchain is a specific data structure that a U.S. standards body has defined precisely. Here is what that definition actually says, and what the word does and does not guarantee.
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DAAQ, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, disclosed plans to issue 3.25 warrants per non-redeemed share to investors who agree to hold through the shareholder vote on its combination with Old Glory Bank, the future OGB Financial Company.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission published a request for information under Executive Order 14405, asking market participants to identify regulations, guidance, orders, and no-action letters that may unduly impede fintech firms. Comments close July 9, 2026.
Patent of the Week
A newly published application describes a decentralized audit that uses a zero-knowledge-proof protocol so two parties can confirm their records reconcile without revealing the underlying data. The disclosure puts cryptographic privacy at the center of cross-party reconciliation.
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An FCC proposed rule would tighten Know-Your-Customer requirements on phone carriers and assess penalties per call. KYC is the same identity-verification backbone crypto exchanges run on.
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A Federal Reserve proposal would create special-purpose Payment Accounts at Reserve Banks and encourage a pause on the highest-risk account-access requests while the policy is developed.
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An SEC order approves MIAX exchanges' listing criteria for options on multi-crypto trusts, leaning on a rule definition that pins down exactly what counts as a 'crypto asset.'
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MEMX proposed amending Rules 19.3 and 19.4 to establish listing criteria and withdrawal standards for options on commodity-based trusts that hold multiple crypto assets.
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An FDIC proposed rule would clarify deposit-insurance coverage for funds held as stablecoin reserves and spell out the treatment of tokenized deposits under the GENIUS Act.
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An OCC information-collection notice proposes new weekly and quarterly reporting forms for permitted payment stablecoin issuers, including foreign issuers, under the GENIUS Act.
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A presidential executive order directs federal financial regulators to integrate fintech innovation into their frameworks and asks the Fed to evaluate payment-account access for firms engaged in digital assets.
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A supplemental NCUA proposed rule would let credit-union subsidiaries issue payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act, while addressing share-insurance coverage and tokenized shares.
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Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control published General Licenses 48A and 49A under the Venezuela Sanctions Regulations. For anyone screening on-chain transactions, the license file is the map of what's permitted.
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An FDIC proposed rule would implement Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions compliance standards for stablecoin issuers it supervises under the GENIUS Act. The compliance plumbing, not the peg, is the regulatory battleground.
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An amended Nasdaq proposal would loosen the generic listing standards for commodity-trust shares, allowing up to 15% of net asset value in assets that don't meet the normal eligibility criteria.
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An SEC order published June 17 approves NYSE Arca's listing of the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF under the generic commodity-trust rule. The document quietly normalizes actively managed, multi-asset crypto products.
