Bank Group Sues U.S. Regulator Over Granting Crypto Trust Charters A banking group has sued a U.S. regulator over its decision to grant trust charters to cryptocurrency-focused firms, challenging the regulator’s authority to approve the institutions. The lawsuit places the role of crypto trust companies within the broader debate over how digital-asset businesses should be…
Bitcoin Is About to Get a Major Bullish Signal It Hasn’t Had in Over a Year The information provided does not include details about the signal, the data behind it, or the timeframe involved. Additional source material is needed to explain what is changing, why it matters, and how it fits into the broader Bitcoin…
Meme coins lead early 2026 crypto rebound as PEPE jumps and majors trade higher The first trading week of 2026 opened with broad gains across crypto markets, with meme coins and several AI-linked tokens posting the strongest moves. The global crypto market capitalization reached $3.16 trillion, up 1.5%, as major assets traded higher. Bitcoin rose…
SEC Approves Listing of Bitcoin ETF Targeting 3x Daily Futures Moves The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the listing of a bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund designed to target three times the daily performance of a bitcoin futures benchmark, according to a regulatory order covering a broader set of commodity-based products. The approval comes amid…
XRP Ledger Nears 12 Million x402 Payments as AI Agents Buy Services The XRP Ledger is approaching 12 million payments made through x402, a payment mechanism being used by artificial intelligence agents to purchase services. The milestone highlights an emerging use case for blockchain networks: enabling automated software agents to make payments without direct human…
COURT HANDS KALSHI WIN OVER CFTC IN EVENT CONTRACTS FIGHT A federal appeals court just refused the CFTC’s last-ditch bid to halt Kalshi’s political prediction markets, clearing the way for the platform to list contracts on congressional control and presidential outcomes. The three-judge panel’s one-page order keeps a lower-court injunction alive and signals that the…
Court Slams Brakes on Crypto Miners’ Mandamus Bid Texas appeals court denies emergency relief to Envy Blockchain and its co-petitioners, refusing to short-circuit a lower-court fight over land-use restrictions. The terse order leaves the underlying dispute on track, signaling that crypto operations cannot leapfrog ordinary judicial process when local governments push back on energy-hungry mining…
CFTC loses bid to shield internal files in Kraft case The Seventh Circuit just told the CFTC it cannot hide behind privilege to keep key documents from Kraft and Mondelēz. The decision strips away a layer of secrecy the agency has long used to protect its internal thinking and may force regulators to operate with…
Grayscale Sees Potential AI Crypto Winners in a $15B Sector Grayscale has identified artificial intelligence-focused crypto projects as a sector with potential winners, highlighting a market valued at approximately $15 billion. The focus reflects the growing overlap between blockchain networks and AI-related applications. However, the available information does not identify which projects Grayscale considers best…
SEC Scores Rare Win Over 1980s Raider’s Asset Shield A federal judge in Washington just blocked Paul Bilzerian from tapping a Cayman Islands trust to dodge a two-decade-old SEC judgment, confirming that the agency can still pursue hidden assets even when the original fraud happened before most crypto traders were born. The ruling keeps the…
COURT SLAMS SEC: DIGITAL ASSET SALES AREN’T AUTOMATIC SECURITIES The Supreme Court just handed crypto markets a major reprieve by ruling that digital asset sales do not automatically trigger federal securities laws, narrowing the SEC’s reach and forcing the agency to prove each token’s investment-contract status rather than relying on blanket enforcement. The decision comes…
SEC LOSES JURISDICTION BATTLE AS JUDGES DRAW HARD LINE ON COMMODITIES The Seventh Circuit just handed the CFTC a narrow but stinging defeat, ruling that the Conway Family Trust’s discretionary trading accounts do not qualify as commodity pools under the Commodity Exchange Act. In plain terms, the court said the agency overreached when it fined…
Bitcoin Reaches $96,750 as Coinbase and Football.Fun Draw Attention Bitcoin has risen to $96,750, according to the information provided. The move is highlighted alongside news involving Coinbase, although no further details about the development were supplied. The update also references a token generation event interview with the founder of Football.Fun. However, the available information does…
SEC’S CRYPTO CRACKDOWN DEALT SHARP FIFTH CIRCUIT BLOW The Fifth Circuit just gutted a key piece of the SEC’s enforcement playbook, ruling that the agency cannot unilaterally label digital assets as securities without first proving they meet the Howey test. The decision slashes the Commission’s leverage in ongoing Coinbase and Binance suits and signals that…
‘Uptober’ Starts Green as Bitcoin ETFs Draw $134 Million U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) opened October on a positive note, pulling in $134.4 million over the first two trading days of the month. The rebound followed a sharp reversal at the end of September, when the group recorded a combined $148.7 million net outflow…
Court Rules Commodity Contracts Trump Crypto Loopholes In a blunt ruling from New York’s Appellate Division, the Second Department held that digital-asset futures contracts sold by Regal Commodities to investor Tauber were classic commodity transactions, not “software” or “investment contracts” that could slip outside the Commodity Exchange Act. The decision slams the door on the…
Introducing The Information Exchange on Solana, Powered by Decrypt and MYR Decrypt and MYR have introduced The Information Exchange, a new initiative built on the Solana blockchain. The project brings together Decrypt’s role as a crypto-focused media company and MYR’s blockchain infrastructure on Solana. Further details about the exchange’s features, availability, and operating model were…
CFTC SLAPPED: KRAFT WINS FIGHT OVER SECRET PROBES The Seventh Circuit just blocked the CFTC from keeping its own enforcement investigations hidden from companies like Kraft and Mondelēz. The court ruled that when regulators want to force testimony or documents, the targets have the right to see the legal papers that started the probe. That…
Court Slaps SEC Authority Over Crypto Exchanges The Fifth Circuit just handed crypto exchanges a major legal win by reversing a lower court ruling that would have forced unregistered trading platforms to comply with SEC oversight. The decision narrows the SEC’s reach over secondary market activity and signals that federal courts may push back against…
Court Denies Crypto Class-Action Consolidation, Scattering the Battlefield Three lawsuits accusing a major digital-asset platform of selling unregistered securities have been left in separate federal courts after a judicial panel refused to bundle them into a single proceeding. The ruling keeps the litigation spread across Illinois, California, and Pennsylvania, raising the odds of conflicting rulings…
