The Fed's skinny account proposal is live and Congress is already pushing back. The buried lede: a Tier 3 application freeze through December 2026.

SCOTUS rules 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter: presidents can fire agency commissioners at will. The Fed is carved out. For Bitcoin, this cuts both ways.

SCOTUS rules 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter: presidents can fire agency commissioners at will. The Fed is carved out. For Bitcoin, this cuts both ways.

OFAC added 134 ISIS-K wallets to the SDN List. Tether froze all 131 Tron addresses instantly. The rails matter more than the target.

John Doe 33 filed a motion to dismiss the Noah Doe lawsuit over 39,069 dormant wallets. Two legal defects could end the case before it reaches a merits hearing.

Payward won $22M in arbitration after Mazars quit Kraken's 2022 audit citing regulatory pressure. The SEC case was later dismissed with prejudice.

Atkins' SEC wants Bitcoin trading alongside stocks on a single broker-dealer license. The rules aren't written yet, here's what's real and what could derail it.

Bull Bitcoin filed at France's Conseil d'État to annul the DAC8 implementing decree, calling mass crypto identity collection a physical danger to millions of holders.

Wyden's letter gives Senate leaders Democratic cover to keep Section 604 intact. Without it, every non-custodial wallet dev faces the same exposure that convicted Roman Storm.

Binance's own data: 70% of EU withdrawals after MiCA suspension went to self-hosted wallets. Regulators wanted compliance. They got self-custody.

BPI wants to become a defendant in ABC Company v. John Does, using its own self-custodied bitcoin as its standing.

Brazil's TJSP applied consumer protection law to self-custody software and ordered Coinbase to return ~$100K. Every wallet developer operating in Brazil should be paying attention.

Three weeks, three unresolved disputes, and no cloture motion filed. Section 604's developer protections are the flashpoint as the Senate returns to the CLARITY Act.

Witt exits July 18 for Army JAG training. Jung inherits the 60-vote push. Polymarket odds dropped to 24% intraday. The August recess window is closing fast.

Japan's FIEA amendment passed July 15: 20% flat tax and ETF framework targeted, but neither lands until 2027-2028. The compliance trap is already built.