The GENIUS Act was signed into law on July 18, 2025 and is expected to take effect by January 18, 2027.

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Kazakh cryptocurrency traders transitioning to authorized platforms must complete required onboarding and identity verification procedures mandated by local regulators

Seven cryptocurrency platforms indicated to the Astana Financial Services Authority that they intended to seek formal licenses to operate in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's 2023 Law on Digital Assets mandates that only entities authorized and licensed within the Astana International Financial Centre are permitted to carry out activities involving unsecured digital assets

Exchanges Binance Kazakhstan and Bybit Kazakhstan operate as authorized digital asset service providers within the Astana International Financial Centre regulatory framework

The SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets framework permits eligible crypto projects to raise up to $5 million over four years under a startup exemption or up to $75 million annually under a fundraising exemption.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center filed a comment letter on October 19, 2026, requesting five key revisions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets framework.

DekaBank operates its Sparkasse cryptocurrency trading and custody service as a registered crypto-asset service provider under BaFin oversight and the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.

The European Securities and Markets Authority's e-money token register remained at 50 entries representing 25 unique entities, while the asset-referenced token register stayed at zero in the October 16, 2026 update.

YouHodler's Italian MiCA authorization covers five regulatory permissions: custody and administration, crypto-to-fiat exchange, crypto-to-crypto exchange, execution of customer orders, and crypto-asset transfers.

Crypto lending platform YouHodler entered the MiCA register through subsidiary YouHodler Italy S.r.l., which obtained authorization from Italy's CONSOB under resolution No. 24156 on October 8, 2026.

Denmark's Penning Financial Services disappeared from the European Securities and Markets Authority's MiCA register in the October 16, 2026 update, despite Penning stating its authorization remains unchanged and unnotified by regulators.

The European Securities and Markets Authority's October 16, 2026 MiCA register update reflected a net increase of eight providers, expanding from 367 to 375 listed firms after nine additions and one removal.

Spanish firm Prakma Markets, affiliated with the Goin crypto savings and investment application, joined the European Securities and Markets Authority's MiCA register on October 16, 2026.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's proposed stablecoin rule implementing Section 3 of the GENIUS Act was published on August 18, 2026 under docket TREAS-DO-2026-0496.

The Blockchain Association argued that permissionless protocol participants should not face blanket identification or geolocation obligations when interacting only with public wallet addresses.

The Blockchain Association proposed a safe harbor excluding ordinary secondary-market trading and liquidity provision from criminal liability for unlawful stablecoin issuance.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed using customer information, geographic restrictions, device-location checks, and transaction monitoring to support its reasonably believes counterparty location assessment.

The Blockchain Association urged the U.S. Department of the Treasury to clarify that criminal liability for knowing participation in unlawful stablecoin issuance requires actual knowledge and affirmative, substantial assistance.

The Blockchain Association recommended that digital asset service providers be allowed to rely on publicly available regulatory lists from the Treasury and OCC rather than conducting open-ended due diligence on foreign stablecoin issuers.

The Blockchain Association requested that the term digital asset service provider be limited to customer-facing businesses and exclude self-custody software, validators, and proprietary trading firms.