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The US Department of Justice is examining whether Binance breached its 2023 criminal settlement after prosecutors sought forfeiture of $61 million allegedly tied to laundered Iranian oil proceeds, as the exchange separately tightens compliance rules for Brazilian users.
A Dutch tax reform passed by the Second Chamber would replace the Box 3 system with a model taxing actual wealth returns, naming cryptocurrencies among the assets whose annual appreciation could be taxed from 2028.
The Federal Council has ordered the Department of Defense to draft a new Cybersicherheitsgesetz by June 2027, mirroring the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, drawing criticism from open-source and Bitcoin advocates over bureaucratic burden and privacy.
The CFTC has shielded passive wallet and interface developers from broker registration, while the SEC opened a temporary five-year window for tokenised stock trading — both arriving just days after the Clarity Act failed to clear the Senate.
A working paper by former ECB official Ulrich Bindseil and Circle's Patrick Hansen says MiCA's circulation conditions are isolating EU stablecoin holders from the dollar-dominated global market, and proposes an equivalence regime with regimes such as the US GENIUS Act.
A draft anti-money-laundering bill approved by Madrid would give police, tax authorities and intelligence services direct access to a registry of crypto accounts held at exchanges, without requiring individual data requests.
The UK government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payments and digital money, including stablecoins, with amendments to the Financial Services and Markets bill due before the House of Lords this month.