Timeline

A chronology of U.S. crypto and digital-asset regulatory events for markets counsel. Start here; Global is a separate filtered view.

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• October 21, 2026 – OCC — OCC Issues Final Rule Implementing the GENIUS Act for the Issuance of Stablecoins by Entities Subject to OCC Jurisdiction (source; final rule PDF; Bulletin 2026-50); Federal Register). Published at 91 FR 67000 (Oct. 23, 2026).
• October 5, 2026 – CFTC — Staff Issues No-Action Relief for DCMs Converting Perpetual-Style Broad-Based Security Index Futures into True Perpetual Futures (Letter 26-29) (source; letter)
• October 5, 2026 – CFTC — Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets (source; PDF; Federal Register)
• October 5, 2026 – FinCEN — Withdraws Proposed Section 311 Special Measure on International Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing and Proposed Rule on Unhosted Wallet Transactions (source; PDF; unhosted wallet withdrawal)
• October 1, 2026 – SEC — Proposes Rules Addressing Custody of Crypto Assets for Investment Advisers and Regulated Funds (Adviser and Regulated Fund Custody Rules; Crypto Custody Rules) (source; PDF; Federal Register)
• September 30, 2026 – Treasury — Federal Register Publishes Interim Final Rule on Forms and Procedures for Review of State Certifications by the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee (source; PDF)
• September 29, 2026 – Fed — Federal Register Publishes Notices of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Board-Supervised Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Application Procedures for State Member Bank Subsidiaries (source; applications; implementing PDF; applications PDF)
• September 29, 2026 – SEC — Charges Cryptoaiml Ltd., Cryptoaiml Capital Foundation, TSAI Pro Ltd., and TSAI Capital Foundation in Investment Confidence Scams Involving Fake Online Trading Platforms and Crypto-Asset Transfers (source)
• September 25, 2026 – SEC — Division of Corporation Finance Issues FAQs on Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets (Buybacks; Post-Functionality Development; Staking Receipt Tokens) (source; Corp Fin crypto)
• September 24, 2026 – Fed — Federal Reserve Board Issues Notices of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Board-Supervised Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Application Procedures for State Member Bank Subsidiaries (source; implementing; applications)
• September 24, 2026 – CFTC — Staff Updates FAQs on Crypto Assets and Blockchain Technologies (Tokenized Customer-Fund Investments; Blockchain Recordkeeping) (source; FAQs)
• September 22, 2026 – CFTC — Staff Issues Advisory on Mention Markets Event Contracts (Letter 26-27) (source; letter)
• September 17, 2026 – Treasury — OFAC Designates BitBank Iranian Digital Asset Exchange and Related Parties under Operation Economic Outcast (E.O. 13902) (source; OFAC)
• September 17, 2026 – CFTC — Staff Issues No-Action Position to Providers of Passive Software (Letter 26-25; Expands Letter 26-09) (source; letter)
• September 17, 2026 – SEC — Issues Temporary, Conditional “Innovation Exemption” for Tokenized Securities Venues to Trade Tokenized NMS Stock (Request for Comment) (order; hub; press)
• September 15, 2026 – Congress — Senate Rejects Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025) (49–50) (source)
• September 14, 2026 – SEC — Chair Atkins Remarks: Project Crypto, CLARITY Act, Regulation Crypto Assets, Transfer-Agent Modernization, and Crypto Custody (source)
• September 9, 2026 – Treasury — OFAC Designates Xinbi Guarantee as a Transnational Criminal Organization and Sanctions Related Digital-Currency Service Providers Supporting Cyber Scam Operations (~$24 Billion Marketplace Volume) (source)
• September 8, 2026 – Federal court — D.D.C.: Malone Lam Pleads Guilty to RICO Conspiracy in Cryptocurrency Social-Engineering Enterprise (Forfeiture Money Judgment ~$245 Million) (source)
• September 3, 2026 – FinCEN — FinCEN Publishes Alert and Financial Trend Analysis on Digital Asset Investment Scams Operated by Overseas Scam Centers (~$12.7 Billion in Suspected BSA-Reported Activity) (source)
• August 21, 2026 – SEC — SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: Tailored Offering Regime for Certain Investment Contracts Involving Crypto Assets (source)
• August 18, 2026 – Treasury — U.S. Department of the Treasury Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: GENIUS Act Regulations on Payment Stablecoin Issuance, Offer, and Sale (source)
• August 8, 2026 – Congress — Senate Majority Leader files cloture motion on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025) (source)
• August 7, 2026 – Treasury — OFAC Designates Shelbit Exchange Network (Siavash Kayvanpour and Related Entities) and Aban Tether Iranian Digital Asset Exchange under E.O. 13224 and E.O. 13902 (source)
• June 24, 2026 – OCC — OCC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer AML/CFT and Sanctions Compliance Risk Management (in coordination with FinCEN and OFAC) (source)
• June 22, 2026 – FinCEN — FinCEN Issues Proposed Rule: Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Customer Identification Program (source)
• June 12, 2026 – Federal court — Second Circuit affirms Samuel Bankman-Fried’s fraud and conspiracy convictions and 25-year sentence in United States v. Bankman-Fried (source)
• June 5, 2026 – FDIC — FDIC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Bank Secrecy Act and Sanctions Compliance Standards for FDIC-Supervised Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (GENIUS Act) (source)
• June 2, 2026 – Treasury — OFAC Designates Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Digital Asset Exchanges (Wallex, Bitpin, Ramzinex) under E.O. 13224 and E.O. 13902 (source)
• May 29, 2026 – CFTC — CFTC Approves KalshiEX BTCPERP Bitcoin Perpetual Contract for Listing as a Futures Contract and Issues Policy Statement Concerning the Listing of Perpetual Contracts (source)
• May 20, 2026 – Fed — Federal Reserve Board Requests Comment on Proposed Limited-Purpose “Payment Account” for Legally Eligible Institutions to Clear and Settle Payments (source)
• May 19, 2026 – Other — President Issues Executive Order 14405, Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into Regulatory Frameworks (Including Digital Asset Services; Reserve Bank Payment Access Review) (source)
• May 18, 2026 – Other — NCUA Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Payment Stablecoin Issuance by Entities Subject to NCUA Jurisdiction (source)
• May 14, 2026 – Congress — Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs orders H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) reported favorably with an amendment in the nature of a substitute (15–9) (source)
• April 10, 2026 – FDIC — FDIC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: GENIUS Act Requirements and Standards for FDIC-Supervised Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Insured Depository Institutions (source)
• April 10, 2026 – FinCEN — FinCEN and OFAC Issue Joint Proposed Rule on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer AML/CFT Program and Sanctions Compliance Program Requirements (source)
• April 3, 2026 – Treasury — U.S. Department of the Treasury Issues NPRM: GENIUS Act Broad-Based Principles for Determining Whether a State-Level Regulatory Regime Is Substantially Similar to the Federal Regulatory Framework (source)
• March 23, 2026 – SEC — SEC Issues Final Interpretation and Guidance on Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets; CFTC Provides Related Guidance (source)
• March 4, 2026 – Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Approves Limited Purpose Account for Kraken Financial (Wyoming Special Purpose Depository Institution) under Board Account Access Guidelines (source)
• March 2, 2026 – OCC — OCC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for the Issuance of Stablecoins by Entities Subject to OCC Jurisdiction (source)
• February 12, 2026 – Other — NCUA Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Investments in and Licensing of Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (GENIUS Act) (source)
• January 23, 2026 – SEC — SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini Earn) (source)
• December 19, 2025 – FDIC — FDIC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Approval Requirements for Issuance of Payment Stablecoins by Subsidiaries of FDIC-Supervised Insured Depository Institutions (GENIUS Act) (source)
• December 12, 2025 – OCC — OCC Conditionally Approves Five National Trust Bank Charters: First National Digital Currency Bank (Circle) and Ripple National Trust Bank, and Conversions of BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos (source)
• December 11, 2025 – Federal court — SDNY sentences Do Hyeong Kwon to 15 years’ imprisonment and orders forfeiture of over $19 million in United States v. Kwon (Terraform Labs fraud) (source)
• December 11, 2025 – SEC — SEC Division of Trading and Markets Issues No-Action Letter to DTC Permitting Pilot DTCC Tokenization Services for DTC-Held Security Entitlements (source)
• December 9, 2025 – OCC — OCC Issues Interpretive Letter 1188 Confirming National Bank Authority to Engage in Riskless Principal Crypto-Asset Transactions (source)
• December 4, 2025 – CFTC — CFTC Acting Chairman Announces First Listed Spot Crypto Trading on CFTC-Registered Futures Exchanges (Designated Contract Markets) (source)
• November 18, 2025 – SEC — SEC Order Setting Aside Action by Delegated Authority and Approving Listing and Trading of Shares of the Bitwise 10 Crypto Index ETF (Multi-Asset Crypto ETP) (source)
• November 18, 2025 – OCC — OCC Issues Interpretive Letter 1186 Confirming National Bank Authority to Hold Certain Crypto-Assets as Principal to Pay Network Fees and for Platform Testing (source)
• October 21, 2025 – Other — President Issues Full and Unconditional Pardon of Changpeng Zhao for Offenses in United States v. Zhao (W.D. Wash.) (source)
• October 14, 2025 – FinCEN — FinCEN Issues Final Rule Imposing Special Measure Prohibiting Correspondent Accounts Involving Huione Group (Primary Money Laundering Concern) (source)
• October 14, 2025 – Federal court — DOJ (EDNY) Unseals Indictment of Prince Group Chairman Chen Zhi and Files Civil Forfeiture Complaint Against Approximately 127,271 Bitcoin (~$15 Billion); OFAC Designates Prince Group TCO (source)
• September 30, 2025 – SEC — SEC Division of Investment Management Issues No-Action Letter Permitting Advisers and Regulated Funds to Treat State Trust Companies as “Banks” for Crypto Asset Custody (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP) (source)
• September 30, 2025 – State — NYDFS Issues Updated Guidance on Custodial Structures for Customer Protection in the Event of Insolvency (Replacing January 23, 2023 Guidance) (source)
• September 19, 2025 – Treasury — U.S. Department of the Treasury Issues Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on GENIUS Act Implementation (source)
• September 17, 2025 – SEC — SEC Approves Generic Listing Standards for Commodity-Based Trust Shares Holding Spot Commodities Including Digital Assets (source)
• September 17, 2025 – SEC — SEC Order Setting Aside Action by Delegated Authority and Approving Listing and Trading of Shares of the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC (Multi-Asset Crypto ETP) (source)
• September 2, 2025 – SEC — SEC and CFTC Staff Issue Joint Statement That Registered Exchanges Are Not Prohibited from Facilitating Trading of Certain Spot Crypto Asset Products (source)
• August 22, 2025 – Federal court — Second Circuit: FRAP 42 stipulation filed dismissing with prejudice SEC appeal and Ripple cross-appeal in SEC v. Ripple Labs (source)
• August 15, 2025 – Fed — Federal Reserve Board Announces Sunset of Novel Activities Supervision Program and Withdraws SR 23-7 (source)
• August 7, 2025 – Other — President Issues Executive Order 14330 Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k) Investors (Including Actively Managed Vehicles Investing in Digital Assets) (source)
• August 6, 2025 – Federal court — SDNY jury convicts Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business (source)
• August 5, 2025 – SEC — SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Statement on Certain Liquid Staking Activities (Staking Receipt Tokens) (source)
• July 30, 2025 – Other — President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets Releases Report Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology (EO 14178) (source)
• July 18, 2025 – Congress — GENIUS Act enacted as Public Law 119–27 (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act) (source)
• July 17, 2025 – Congress — U.S. House of Representatives passes S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) by Yeas and Nays 308–122 (source)
• July 17, 2025 – Congress — U.S. House of Representatives passes H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (CLARITY Act), by Yeas and Nays 294–134 (source)
• July 14, 2025 – OCC — Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, and OCC Issue Joint Statement on Risk-Management Considerations for Crypto-Asset Safekeeping by Banking Organizations (source)
• June 17, 2025 – Congress — U.S. Senate passes S. 1582 (GENIUS Act), as amended, by Yea-Nay Vote 68–30 (source)
• May 29, 2025 – SEC — SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Binance Entities and Founder Changpeng Zhao (source)
• May 29, 2025 – Congress — Rep. Hill introduces H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (CLARITY Act) (source)
• May 8, 2025 – Federal court — SDNY Sentences Celsius Founder Alexander Mashinsky to 144 Months’ Imprisonment for Securities Fraud and Commodities Fraud (source)
• May 7, 2025 – OCC — OCC Issues Interpretive Letter 1184 clarifying bank authority to buy and sell crypto-assets held in custody at customer direction and to outsource crypto custody and execution to third parties (source)
• May 1, 2025 – Congress — Sen. Hagerty introduces S. 1582, the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act) (source)
• April 24, 2025 – Fed — Federal Reserve Board announces withdrawal of guidance for banks related to crypto-asset and dollar token activities (rescinds SR 22-6 / CA 22-6 and SR 23-8 / CA 23-5) (source)
• April 24, 2025 – FDIC — FDIC and Federal Reserve withdraw January 3, 2023 and February 23, 2023 joint statements on crypto-asset risks to banking organizations (source)
• April 10, 2025 – Congress — H.J. Res. 25 becomes Public Law 119–5, disapproving under the Congressional Review Act the IRS/Treasury DeFi digital asset broker reporting rule (T.D. 10021) (source)
• April 9, 2025 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed Rule Change to Permit Listing and Trading of Options on the iShares Ethereum Trust (source)
• April 7, 2025 – Other — Deputy Attorney General Issues Memorandum “Ending Regulation by Prosecution” Setting DOJ Digital Asset Enforcement Priorities and Disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (source)
• April 4, 2025 – SEC — SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Statement on Stablecoins (Covered Stablecoins) (source)
• March 28, 2025 – FDIC — FDIC Issues FIL-7-2025 clarifying FDIC-supervised institutions may engage in permissible crypto-related activities without prior FDIC approval; rescinds FIL-16-2022 (source)
• March 27, 2025 – SEC — SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Consensys Software Inc. (MetaMask Swaps and Staking) (source)
• March 27, 2025 – SEC — SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Payward, Inc. and Payward Ventures, Inc. (d/b/a Kraken) (source)
• March 21, 2025 – Treasury — U.S. Department of the Treasury Removes Economic Sanctions Against Tornado Cash (OFAC SDN Delisting) (source)
• March 7, 2025 – OCC — OCC Issues Interpretive Letter 1183 rescinding Interpretive Letter 1179 supervisory nonobjection process and reaffirming permissibility of certain bank crypto-asset custody, stablecoin, and distributed-ledger activities (source)
• March 6, 2025 – Other — President Issues Executive Order 14233 Establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile (source)
• February 27, 2025 – SEC — SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Coinbase (source)
• February 27, 2025 – SEC — SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Staff Statement on Meme Coins (Certain Meme-Coin Transactions Not Offers/Sales of Securities) (source)
• January 23, 2025 – Other — President issues Executive Order 14178: Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology (source)
• January 23, 2025 – SEC — SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122 rescinds SAB 121 interpretive guidance on accounting for obligations to safeguard crypto-assets held for platform users (source)
• January 21, 2025 – SEC — SEC Acting Chairman Uyeda announces formation of Crypto Task Force; Commissioner Hester Peirce to lead (source)
• January 13, 2025 – Federal court — Third Circuit Grants in Part Coinbase Petition for Review and Remands SEC Denial of Crypto Rulemaking Petition as Insufficiently Reasoned (Coinbase, Inc. v. SEC) (source)
• December 30, 2024 – Treasury — Treasury and IRS Publish Final Regulations on Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales (DeFi Broker Rule; T.D. 10021) (source)
• December 19, 2024 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Approval of Proposed Rule Changes to List and Trade Shares of Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF and Franklin Crypto Index ETF (Spot Bitcoin and Ether) (source)
• November 26, 2024 – Federal court — Fifth Circuit holds Tornado Cash immutable smart contracts are not “property” sanctionable under IEEPA in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury (source)
• November 21, 2024 – Federal court — N.D. Tex. Vacates SEC Dealer Rule (Further Definition of “As a Part of a Regular Business”) in National Association of Private Fund Managers v. SEC and Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas v. SEC (source)
• November 14, 2024 – Federal court — D.D.C. Sentences Ilya Lichtenstein to 60 Months’ Imprisonment for Money-Laundering Conspiracy Involving Bitcoin Stolen from Bitfinex (source)
• October 18, 2024 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed Rule Change to Permit Listing and Trading of Options on Multiple Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (source)
• October 10, 2024 – SEC — SEC Charges Cumberland DRW LLC with Operating as an Unregistered Dealer in Crypto Asset Markets (source)
• October 8, 2024 – Federal court — Delaware Bankruptcy Court confirms Second Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of FTX Trading Ltd. and Its Debtor Affiliates (source)
• September 27, 2024 – SEC — SEC Settles Charges Against Mango DAO, Blockworks Foundation, and Mango Labs for Unregistered MNGO Token Offers and Broker Activity (source)
• September 20, 2024 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed Rule Change to Permit Listing and Trading of Options on the iShares Bitcoin Trust (source)
• September 9, 2024 – Congress — Senate receives H.R. 4763 (FIT21), reads twice, and refers to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (source)
• August 8, 2024 – CFTC — CFTC Obtains $12.7 Billion Consent Judgment Against FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda Research LLC (source)
• August 7, 2024 – Federal court — SDNY Judge Torres enters final judgment in SEC v. Ripple Labs imposing $125,035,150 civil penalty and injunction (source)
• July 11, 2024 – Congress — U.S. House fails to override presidential veto of H.J. Res. 109 (Congressional Review Act disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121) (source)
• July 9, 2024 – Treasury — Treasury and IRS publish final regulations requiring custodial brokers to report sales and exchanges of digital assets (Form 1099-DA framework) (source)
• June 28, 2024 – SEC — SEC Charges Consensys Software Inc. for Unregistered Offers and Sales Through MetaMask Staking and Unregistered Broker Activity Through MetaMask Swaps and Staking (source)
• June 28, 2024 – Federal court — D.D.C. Grants in Part and Denies in Part Motions to Dismiss in SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd. (Secondary-Market BNB Sales, BUSD, and Simple Earn Claims Dismissed; Platform Claims Proceed) (source)
• June 12, 2024 – SEC — SDNY enters final consent judgment in SEC v. Terraform Labs and Do Kwon requiring approximately $4.5 billion in monetary relief following fraud verdict (source)
• May 31, 2024 – Congress — President Biden vetoes H.J. Res. 109, Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (source)
• May 31, 2024 – Federal court — SDNY Bankruptcy Court Confirms Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Genesis Global Holdco, LLC and Its Debtor Affiliates (source)
• May 23, 2024 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed Rule Changes to List and Trade Shares of Ether-Based Exchange-Traded Products (source)
• May 22, 2024 – Congress — U.S. House of Representatives passes H.R. 4763, the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21), by recorded vote 279–136 (source)
• May 16, 2024 – Congress — U.S. Senate passes H.J. Res. 109 (CRA disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121) by Yea-Nay Vote 60–38 (source)
• May 8, 2024 – Congress — U.S. House of Representatives passes H.J. Res. 109 (CRA disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121) by Yeas and Nays 228–182 (source)
• April 30, 2024 – Federal court — W.D. Wash. sentences Changpeng Zhao to 4 months’ imprisonment for failure to maintain an effective AML program (Bank Secrecy Act) (source)
• April 5, 2024 – Federal court — SDNY jury finds Terraform Labs PTE Ltd. and Do Kwon liable for securities fraud in SEC v. Terraform Labs (source)
• March 28, 2024 – Federal court — SDNY sentences Samuel Bankman-Fried to 25 years’ imprisonment and approximately $11 billion forfeiture following FTX-related fraud convictions (source)
• March 27, 2024 – Federal court — SDNY denies Coinbase’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in SEC v. Coinbase; holds certain crypto-asset transactions may be investment contracts (source)
• March 26, 2024 – CFTC — CFTC Charges KuCoin Operators with Operating Illegal Digital Asset Derivatives Exchange and Related Registration and CIP Violations (source)
• March 19, 2024 – SEC — Genesis Global Capital, LLC Agrees to Pay $21 Million Penalty to Settle SEC Charges Over Gemini Earn Unregistered Securities Offering (source)
• January 10, 2024 – SEC — SEC Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed Rule Changes to List and Trade Bitcoin-Based Commodity-Based Trust Shares and Trust Units (spot bitcoin ETPs) (source)
• December 28, 2023 – Federal court — SDNY Grants SEC Summary Judgment That Terraform Labs and Do Kwon Offered and Sold Unregistered Securities; Security-Based Swap Claims Rejected; Fraud Claims Set for Trial (SEC v. Terraform Labs) (source)
• November 21, 2023 – Federal court — DOJ: Binance Holdings Limited and CEO Changpeng Zhao plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act and related federal charges in approximately $4.3 billion resolution (source)
• November 21, 2023 – CFTC — CFTC: Binance and Changpeng Zhao Agree to Pay $2.85 Billion for Willfully Evading U.S. Law, Illegally Operating a Digital Asset Derivatives Exchange, and Other Violations (source)
• November 21, 2023 – Treasury — U.S. Treasury (FinCEN and OFAC) Announces Settlements with Binance for Violations of U.S. Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Laws; FinCEN Consent Order Assesses $3.4 Billion Civil Money Penalty (source)
• November 20, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges Payward Inc. and Payward Ventures Inc. (d/b/a Kraken) for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, Dealer, and Clearing Agency (source)
• November 15, 2023 – State — NYDFS Issues Guidance Regarding Listing of Virtual Currencies (superseding prior listing guidance; Greenlist and self-certification framework) (source)
• November 2, 2023 – Federal court — SDNY jury finds Samuel Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in United States v. Bankman-Fried (source)
• October 23, 2023 – FinCEN — FinCEN Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern (source)
• October 3, 2023 – Federal court — D.N.J. Bankruptcy Court Confirms Third Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of BlockFi Inc. and Its Debtor Affiliates (source)
• September 7, 2023 – CFTC — CFTC Issues Orders Against Operators of Three DeFi Protocols for Offering Illegal Digital Asset D... (source)
• August 29, 2023 – SEC — DC Circuit Court of Appeals rules SEC must review rejection of Grayscale request to convert GBTC ... (source)
• August 28, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges LA-Based Media and Entertainment Co. Impact Theory for Unregistered Offering of NFTs (source)
• August 25, 2023 – Treasury — U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Release Proposed Regulations on Sales and Exchanges of Digit... (source)
• August 23, 2023 – Federal court — DOJ (SDNY) Charges Tornado Cash Founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov With Money Laundering And ... (source)
• August 16, 2023 – CFTC — Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. has secured regulatory approval from the National Futures Associ... (source)
• July 13, 2023 – SEC — SDNY Judge Torres decision in SEC v Ripple (source)
• June 8, 2023 – CFTC — CFTC obtains default judgment order against OokiDao, in N.D. California (source)
• June 6, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing A... (source)
• June 5, 2023 – SEC — SEC Files 13 Charges Against Binance Entities and Founder Changpeng Zhao Charges include operatin... (source)
• April 17, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges Crypto Asset Trading Platform Bittrex and its Former CEO for Operating an Unregistere... (source)
• April 14, 2023 – SEC — SEC Reopens Comment Period for Proposed Amendments to Exchange Act Rule 3b-16 and Provides Supple... (source)
• April 14, 2023 – SEC — SEC Chair Gary Gensler statement: Statement on Alternative Trading Systems and the Definition of ... (source)
• March 27, 2023 – CFTC — CFTC Charges Binance and Its Founder, Changpeng Zhao, with Willful Evasion of Federal Law and Ope... (source)
• March 23, 2023 – SEC — SEC issues investor alert: Exercise Caution with Crypto Asset Securities: Investor Alert (source)
• March 22, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges Crypto Entrepreneur Justin Sun and his Companies for Fraud and Other Securities Law V... (source)
• March 22, 2023 – SEC — SEC sends Wells Notice to Coinbase (source)
• March 19, 2023 – Fed — Federal Reserve: Coordinated central bank action to enhance the provision of U.S. dollar liquidity (source)
• March 19, 2023 – FDIC — FDIC: Subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, Inc., to Assume Deposits (EXCEPT deposits related... (source)
• March 15, 2023 – Fed — Federal Reserve announces July launch for the FedNow Service (source)
• March 13, 2023 – FDIC — FDIC Acts to Protect All Depositors of the former Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California (source)
• March 12, 2023 – State (NYDFS) — Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Announces New York Department of Financial Services Takes Possession of Signature Bank (source)
• March 12, 2023 – FDIC — Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC, on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signatur... (source)
• March 8, 2023 – Other — Silvergate Capital announces plans for an orderly wind down of Bank operations and a voluntary li... (source)
• February 28, 2023 – Federal court — DOJ SDNY – FTX co-founder and former director of engineering Nishad Singh pleads guilty to federa... (source)
• February 23, 2023 – Federal court — DOJ SDNY – Unsealing of superseding indictment against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (source)
• February 15, 2023 – SEC — SEC Proposes Enhanced Safeguarding Rule for Registered Investment Advisers (source)
• February 9, 2023 – SEC — Kraken to Discontinue Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Staking-As-A-Service Program an... (source)
• February 3, 2023 – SEC — SEC issues Wells Notice to Paxos, re: BUSD stablecoin (source)
• January 27, 2023 – Fed — Federal Reserve: Federal Reserve Board announces denial of application by Custodia Bank, Inc. to ... (source)
• January 27, 2023 – Fed — Federal Reserve: Federal Reserve Board issues policy statement to promote a level playing field f... (source)
• January 23, 2023 – State (NYDFS) — NY DFS Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Releases Consumer Protection Guidance In the Event of Vi... (source)
• January 19, 2023 – Federal court — Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern ... (source)
• January 12, 2023 – SEC — SEC Charges Genesis and Gemini for the Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Securities thr... (source)
• January 4, 2023 – State (NYDFS) — NY DFS Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Announces $100 Million Settlement with Coinbase, Inc. af... (source)
• December 22, 2022 – Federal court — DOJ SDNY: United States Attorney Announces Extradition Of FTX Founder Samuel Bankman-Fried To The... (source)
• December 14, 2022 – Congress — Senator Warren: Warren, Marshall Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Crack Down on Cryptocurrency... (source)
• December 13, 2022 – Federal court — DOJ SDNY: United States Attorney Announces Charges Against FTX Founder Samuel Bankman-Fried; Bank... (source)
• November 28, 2022 – Federal court — BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the ... (source)
• November 11, 2022 – Federal court — FTX group of entities files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy ... (source)
• September 22, 2022 – CFTC — CFTC Imposes $250,000 Penalty Against bZeroX, LLC and Its Founders and Charges Successor Ooki DAO... (source)
• August 19, 2022 – FDIC — FDIC Issues Cease and Desist Letters to Five Companies For Making Crypto-Related False or Mislead... (source)
• August 16, 2022 – Fed — Federal Reserve: SR 22-6 / CA 22-6: Engagement in Crypto-Asset-Related Activities by Federal Rese... (source)
• August 8, 2022 – Treasury — U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash (source)
• August 3, 2022 – Congress — Senator Boozman: Senators Boozman, Stabenow, Booker and Thune Introduce Legislation to Regulate D... (source)
• July 21, 2022 – SEC — SEC Charges Former Coinbase Manager, Two Others in Crypto Asset Insider Trading Action (source)
• July 21, 2022 – Treasury — DOJ SDNY: Three Charged In First Ever Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Tipping Scheme; Former Coinb... (source)
• July 13, 2022 – Federal court — Celsius and several of its affiliates commenced voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in th... (source)
• July 6, 2022 – Federal court — Voyager its U.S. affiliates commenced voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. Ban... (source)
• June 27, 2022 – Congress — Senator Gillibrand: Lummis, Gillibrand Introduce Landmark Legislation To Create Regulatory Framew... (source)
• June 2, 2022 – CFTC — CFTC Charges Gemini Trust Company for Making Material False or Misleading Statements and Omission... (source)
• June 1, 2022 – Treasury — DOJ SDNY: Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace [OpenSea] Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Inside... (source)
• May 5, 2022 – Federal court — Federal Court Orders BitMEX’s Three Co-Founders to Pay a Total of $30 Million for Illegally Opera... (source)
• February 24, 2022 – Federal court — DOJ SDNY: Founders Of Cryptocurrency Exchange [BitMEX] Plead Guilty To Bank Secrecy Act Violation... (source)
• February 14, 2022 – SEC — SEC: BlockFi Agrees to Pay $100 Million in Penalties and Pursue Registration of its Crypto Lendin... (source)
• October 15, 2021 – CFTC — CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5 Million; Tether to Pay $41 million Ov... (source)
• September 28, 2021 – CFTC — CFTC Imposes A $1.25 Million Penalty against Kraken for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Digital Ass... (source)
• August 10, 2021 – Federal court — Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100 Million for Illegally Operating a Cryptocurrency Trading ... (source)
• March 19, 2021 – CFTC — CFTC Orders Coinbase Inc. to Pay $6.5 Million for False, Misleading, or Inaccurate Reporting and ... (source)
• February 23, 2021 – State (NY AG) — Attorney General James Ends Virtual Currency Trading Platform Bitfinex’s Illegal Activities in Ne... (source)
• December 22, 2020 – SEC — SEC Charges Ripple and Two Executives with Conducting $1.3 Billion Unregistered Securities Offering (source)
• October 21, 2020 – SEC — SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Kik Interactive For Unregistered Offering (source)
• October 1, 2020 – CFTC — CFTC Charges BitMEX Owners with Illegally Operating a Cryptocurrency Derivatives Trading Platform... (source)
• May 19, 2019 – FinCEN — FinCEN: Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virt... (source)
• April 3, 2019 – SEC — SEC publishes Framework for “Investment Contract” Analysis of Digital Assets (source)
• July 26, 2018 – SEC — SEC Denial of Winklvoss Bitcoin Trust ETF; Order Setting Aside Action by Delegated Authority and ... (source)
• July 25, 2017 – SEC — SEC DAO Report: SEC Issues Investigative Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Secu... (source)
• June 2, 2016 – CFTC — CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000 for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Financed R... (source)
• January 30, 2014 – FinCEN — FinCEN Guidance: Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Virtual Currency Software Development and... (source)
• March 18, 2013 – FinCEN — FinCEN Guidance: Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Usi... (source)