Feb 11, 2026

Hong Kong ready to issue first stablecoin licenses in March, Financial Secretary...

Hong Kong will begin issuing a small number of stablecoin licenses to companies with credible business models and strong complianc...

Feb 11, 2026

Hong Kong working to allow perpetual contracts, chief regulator says

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission will publish a "high-level framework" allowing perpetual contracts, SFC CEO Julia Le...

Feb 10, 2026

Crypto PAC Fairshake leaps into first midterm Senate race with $5 million in Ala...

The industry's leading campaign-finance operation is getting behind a pro-crypto candidate, Barry Moore, in Alabama's Republican S...

Feb 10, 2026

Crypto's banker adversaries didn't want to deal in latest White House meeting on...

Stablecoin rewards programs were the primary business of a work session at the White House between crypto executives and banking r...

Feb 10, 2026

Ex-SafeMoon CEO gets 8-year prison sentence for defrauding investors

Braden John Karony had been convicted last year on several federal charges, and he's ordered to pay back $7.5 million in restituti...

Feb 10, 2026

Sam Bankman-Fried files for new trial over FTX fraud charges

The incarcerated former leader of the failed crypto exchange wants a new chance to defend against fraud charges.

Feb 10, 2026

Blockchain.com wins UK registration nearly four years after abandoning FCA proce...

The London-based company elected to withdraw its application for FCA licensing in March 2022 having not won approval ahead of an i...

Feb 09, 2026

Bithumb $44 billion bitcoin blunder puts South Korea regulators on alert over lo...

The Financial Supervisory Service said it plans to build tools that automatically extract suspicious trading patterns by the secon...

Feb 09, 2026

$44B bitcoin blunder puts South Korea regulators on alert over local crypto exch...

The watchdog said it plans to build tools that automatically extract suspicious trading patterns by the second and minute.

Feb 08, 2026

Previewing policy at Consensus Hong Kong 2026: State of Crypto

The CoinDesk crew is back in Hong Kong, with policymakers and policy-users alike.