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While the federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve sits idle at 328K BTC with no acquisition mandate, Texas, New Hampshire, and Arizona have already passed state-level Bitcoin reserve laws. Ohio, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have bills in committee. The states are moving faster than Washington.
The SEC and CFTC jointly classified 16 tokens as digital commodities on March 17, ending years of regulatory ambiguity. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and 12 others now have a clear legal identity. Here's what the 68-page ruling actually says and why it matters.
Asia's three largest non-Chinese crypto markets are writing their rulebooks simultaneously - and reaching wildly different conclusions. South Korea bans leverage trading. Japan cuts crypto taxes to 20%. India quietly unbans exchanges while keeping its 30% flat tax. The regulatory arbitrage is just beginning.
CFTC Chairman Selig moves to bring crypto perpetual futures - a $100B daily market that exists almost entirely offshore - back to regulated US exchanges.
SEC Chairman Atkins outlined a three-path safe harbor giving crypto projects up to four years before full securities regulation. The biggest change since Howey.
A bipartisan deal on stablecoin yield could deliver crypto's first market structure law. Senate Banking Committee markup targeted for late April.
Hong Kong grants stablecoin licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered - the same banks that print the city's physical banknotes. 36 applications filed.
The SEC and CFTC issued their first joint guidance classifying 16 cryptocurrencies as digital commodities. Combined with the Senate's CBDC ban, a seismic shift.
MiCA is fully enforced across 27 EU member states. Compliant exchanges gain share, Tether faces an existential challenge, and DeFi routes around the rules.