Regulation Lead — MiCA, SEC, EU crypto policy
Two stablecoin rulebooks stopped being hypothetical this autumn. Treasury's first binding GENIUS rule and ESMA's new opinion now point at the same…
Q3 2026 was the worst quarter on record for crypto theft, with $1.26 billion gone across 247 incidents. Most of the victims…
Europe's crypto rulebook is fully live, and on 8 October ESMA told platforms to drop non-compliant stablecoins by January. Here is how…
A single reseller and tampered Ledgers may have drained more than $80 million in October 2026. Here is how a hardware wallet…
In 2026 DAOs bolted human circuit-breakers onto token voting. Marinade's council killed an attack in six hours; Onyx's timelock just ran out;…
MiCA is now fully live across the EU, with 361 licensed providers trading under it. Here is what the rulebook actually does…
A federal judge drew the clearest line yet under a DeFi rug pull. Solana walked free, the securities case collapsed, and two…
In one week the SEC rewrote its quorum rule, lost Hester Peirce, and dropped to two commissioners. Here is who, or what,…
Smart-contract audits grab the headlines, but 2026's costliest crypto losses came through keys and cryptography, not code. Trail of Bits' newest work…
The SEC's crypto enforcement machine went quiet twice in 2026. First by design, as Atkins unwound the Gensler-era crackdown; then by accident,…
