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Crypto Headwinds in 2026: Balancing Decentralized Sovereignty with Local Compliance
Jennie Levin, Chief Legal and Operating Officer, Algorand Foundation
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As The World Is Tokenizing Washington Is Running Out of Time to Write the Rules.
Arthur Firstov, Chief Business Officer at Mercuryo.
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Why Crypto’s Regulatory Gap Is Now an Institutional Problem
Norman Wooding, Founder & CEO, SCRYPT
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After Meta and YouTube, Who's the Next Addiction Defendant? Crypto Brokers and Prediction Markets are Lawyering Up
Patrick Gruhn
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How Forex Robots Designed for MT4 Support Automated Trading
Jan Kus
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The FCA Is Building a Sterling Stablecoin Market. The Rules That Kick In When It Succeeds Could Kill It.
Rosalia Mazza
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Washington Froze Crypto's Legislative Future on Sunday. By Monday, the Industry Had Already Moved On.
Rosalia Mazza
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Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race
Rosalia Mazza
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When Washington waits, criminals move: The hidden cost of the CLARITY Act delay
Baran Ozkan
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BlackRock Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Dominated Inflows. Then It Launched a Second Product That Changes What a Crypto ETF Can Do.
Rosalia Mazza
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JUN 8 - 10, Summits - GDS Group
On the 18-20 November 2019 at the wonderful The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island in Florida, our North American NG Financial Services Technology Summit will bring together a host of senior financial...
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Crypto Headwinds in 2026: Balancing Decentralized Sovereignty with Local Compliance
Crypto regulation is moving from enforcement theatre to infrastructure design — but the legal foundation is still unfinished. As the Clarity Act window narrows before U.S. midterms, builders face a practical choice: wait for Washington, or architect systems that can survive shifting rules, local compliance demands, and future political reversals.
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As The World Is Tokenizing Washington Is Running Out of Time to Write the Rules.
The payment rails connecting traditional finance to on-chain assets are already operational. Arthur Firstov argues that builders are waiting for one thing: a statute that tells them what they can carry.
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Why Crypto’s Regulatory Gap Is Now an Institutional Problem
Regulatory clarity finally arrived for stablecoins. But the EU and US solved the problem in fundamentally different ways. As MiCA and the GENIUS Act diverge on licensing, custody, and compliance architecture, institutions are discovering that “compliant” in one market doesn’t translate cleanly into the other. The new competitive edge may belong to firms and jurisdictions built to operate between regulatory systems, not inside just one.
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JUN 8 - 10, Summits - GDS Group
On the 18-20 November 2019 at the wonderful The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island in Florida, our North American NG Financial Services Technology Summit will bring together a host of senior financial...
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JUN 9 - 11, Wealth Management EDGE
Set your sights on growth
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After Meta and YouTube, Who's the Next Addiction Defendant? Crypto Brokers and Prediction Markets are Lawyering UpCrypto brokers, leveraged trading platforms, and prediction markets are coming under growing scrutiny as courts begin treating addictive digital products more aggressively following recent rulings against Meta and Alphabet. Critics say many trading apps deliberately use gambling-like mechanics — leverage, gamification, and FOMO — while the vast majority of retail traders ultimately lose money. With regulators and lawyers increasingly focused on financial addiction and consumer harm, the industry could face a major wave of legal challenges.
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