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Nov 13: House Oversight Chair Comer floats restricting federal officials from prediction-market bets. Same day, CFTC Chair Selig calls state suits against platform founders 'egregious.'
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White House announced on Nov 12 four nominees: Kristin Johnson and Steven Levine for SEC, Nathan Anonick and Matthew Rowland for CFTC. First nominations in a year.
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DeFi Education Fund, Paradigm, Uniswap and a16z led a Nov 12 court filing with 14 co-signers against the Illinois Digital Asset Tax Act, now postponed to July 2027.
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NYDFS's Nov 12 guidance orders virtual-currency entities to overhaul advertising policies and governance by May 10, 2027, covering testimonials, third-party promoters and fraud monitoring.
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Bloomberg says Goldman Sachs, Citi, Santander and Deutsche Bank have pledged ~$270M to Project Faro, the 21-bank consortium planning a USD stablecoin for 2027.
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The Nov. 10 release counts 348 actions and $1.095B in orders; crypto cases include a $95.6M bitcoin mining scheme and the BitConnect remedies judgment.
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Binance notified French customers Nov 6 that all accounts close on Dec 31 and monthly fees of 0.025% or 10 USDC (whichever is greater) begin Nov 29, after failing to obtain MiCA authorization.
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FinCEN and the Federal Reserve jointly withdrew on Nov 6 the 2020 NPRM that would have cut the Travel Rule threshold from $3,000 to $250 and named CVC in the rule.
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FinCEN named MEXC Global a primary money laundering concern on Nov 6, citing $16B of transactions tied to Russia, Iran and North Korea from May 2021 to May 2026.
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The Department of Labor sent a proposed rule on alternative assets in 401(k) plans to the White House's OIRA for pre-publication review, implementing an earlier Trump executive order.
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Fairshake and allied crypto PACs spent about $176M on 2026 midterm races and lost two of the biggest, including the $63M push to beat Sherrod Brown.
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig said Nov 3 that perpetual futures on individual stocks are deemed approved as security futures under Reg 40.3, overseen jointly with the SEC via a March 2026 MOU.
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Sun moved Nov 3 for sanctions against World Liberty Financial after it amended its corporate disclosure to add UAE citizenship — a move he argues was engineered to kill federal diversity jurisdiction.
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Fairshake, Digital Freedom Fund and Fellowship Fund closed the 2026 cycle at ~$170M, with ~$56M against Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Nov 3 polling still has the race inside the margin.
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig told CNBC Oct 30 the $6.3B Binance theft 'proves our exact point' and pointed to a federal registration path for offshore exchanges while Congress waits on CLARITY.
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Itaú notified the Banco Central do Brasil on Oct 27 that it will keep running crypto trading and custody under Resolution 520, three days before the Oct 30 compliance deadline.
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Polymarket's head of global intelligence Shana Bautista says a 16-person team is probing dozens of US midterm-election bets, with at least two referrals to the CFTC.
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Finance Canada published draft stablecoin rules in the Canada Gazette on Oct 24, with comments closing Dec 23. Yield banned, redemption capped at 1% within three business days.
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The NBA becomes the third US pro league after MLB and NHL to sign a CFTC information-sharing MOU on prediction markets, and names Kalshi and Polymarket as preferred exchanges.
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IRS-CI chief Jarod Koopman says a revised VDP will cut resolution to 120 days and lower penalties, with digital-asset cases folded into the general track.
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OKXICE's Oct. 23 public notice adds six names — Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Intuit, Moderna — bringing issuer objections to 22 under the SEC's TSV framework.
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The SEC and France's AMF signed a cooperation MOU covering investment advisers, investment companies and investment service providers operating across the two markets.
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The Division of Examinations' FY2027 report names super intelligence under emerging tech and tokenization under market-infrastructure risks; the word 'crypto' is dropped.
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The American Bankers Association called the OCC's final GENIUS Act rule a gap that risks undermining the line Congress drew between payment stablecoins and bank deposits.
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OCC release 2026-92 drops the third-party rewards presumption, keeps the $5M capital floor permanent, and holds redemption at two business days. Rule and GENIUS Act both take effect Jan. 18, 2027.
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The industry group's last-day docket submission asks Treasury to narrow DASP, tighten the knowing-participation liability test, and drop open-ended due diligence on foreign payment stablecoin issuers.
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File S7-2026-27 drew comments from Hyperliquid Policy Center, Bitwise, Chainalysis and The Digital Chamber. The two sitting commissioners alone review the record after Peirce's October 2 departure.
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The CFTC's October 16 reply brief in CME v. Selig argues CME has not shown an imminent injury, pointing to CME's rising crypto futures volume since the agency OK'd Kalshi's bitcoin perp.
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Nadex and Ludlow Exchange (Novig) filed federal suits against Missouri AG Hanaway, arguing CFTC exclusive jurisdiction preempts state sports-wagering enforcement.
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Parliament adopted amendments on October 15 introducing a 10% one-time declaration on crypto held December 31, 2026, and taxing withdrawals above deposits rather than per-trade.
A new BIS working paper by Ahmed and Aldasoro finds a 1 bp rise in US bank deposit rates cuts 10-week stablecoin growth from 15% to 12% — hitting USDC harder than USDT.
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Defend American Jobs, a Fairshake affiliate funded by Coinbase, Ripple and a16z, disclosed about $7M in new ads against Sherrod Brown in Ohio's Senate race — total year-to-date is $46.66M.
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WSJ reports Tether sent ~$6.3M to Nxum, a consulting firm one-third owned by then-White House crypto chief Bo Hines, starting while he was still in government.
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The second executive director of the White House digital assets council departed October 14. On his way out: no new Strategic Bitcoin Reserve purchases are planned.
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Bailey-chaired FSB warns stablecoins untested under severe stress, flags multi-issuer reserve geography and 24/7 trading as crisis-management gaps, days before the Oct. 15 G20 ministerial.
The October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report publishes the IMF's first empirical slice of tokenized equities — small, more volatile, with 50%+ of trading off-hours.
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Selig issues an interim final rule carving casino-style gambling out of the swap definition and a proposed rule folding event contracts in. 30 days of comment follow.
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France's Commission des Finances adopted amendments taxing crypto-to-stablecoin swaps and extending the exit tax to unrealized crypto gains, then voted the whole revenue section down 31-3.
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Chairman Mike Selig's advance notice pairs CTX (leveraged crypto transactions) with CAM (a new exchange category). 60-day comment window; spot without leverage stays outside.
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FinCEN killed both pending crypto proposals the same week, citing a 'chilling effect on legitimate activity' and the July 2025 Working Group report.
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The Independent Community Bankers of America filed suit in D.C. district court on Oct 2 to block an OCC rule letting crypto firms obtain national trust charters.
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Industry and Illinois state officials filed a joint motion in Sangamon County to push the Digital Asset Tax Act's effective date from Jan 1 to July 1, 2027.
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The SEC proposed Oct 1 to let registered investment advisers custody crypto with state-chartered trust companies, broker-dealers, or self-custody under conditions. 60-day comment window.
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One proposed rule redefines event contracts as swaps; one interim final rule carves out casino-style products. Both landed at OMB while states sue Polymarket and Kalshi over gambling.
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The Illinois Department of Revenue's draft implementing rules for the state's Digital Asset Tax Act clarify who owes the 0.2% levy, when, and how DEX transactions are treated.
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Paul Atkins told CNBC the SEC will move on crypto rulemaking under existing authority if the CLARITY Act does not pass the Senate; Project Crypto is already on the 2026 rulemaking agenda.
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Alliance to End Human Trafficking and Catholic Charities deliver a letter signed by ~82 leaders urging Senate leadership to revisit the developer carve-out in CLARITY Act Section 604.
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The Senate folded a four-year CBDC prohibition into a bipartisan housing bill on June 22; stablecoins are exempt. The bill now returns to the House before Trump's signature.