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LATEST: 🇸🇻 The IMF approved the disbursement of ~$138M to El Salvador under its $1.4B program, granting waivers on missed criteria including Bitcoin accumulation, citing corrective measures.

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LATEST: 🇸🇻 The IMF says El Salvador has used no public funds to buy Bitcoin since June 2025, with all accumulation since then coming from private donations.

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LATEST: 🇹🇭 Thailand's SEC proposed letting retail investors access qualifying overseas crypto derivatives through licensed intermediaries.

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LATEST: 🇺🇦 Zelenskyy says he and NATO chief Rutte agree on diplomatic progress, discuss Patriot missiles and PURL funding.

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LATEST: 🇺🇲🇹🇷 US sanctions Turkey’s Golden Global Bank over alleged Iran ties.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 A bipartisan majority of US states has backed New Jersey’s petition to the Supreme Court to declare that states, not the CFTC, have authority to regulate prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 A new OCC report says all nine of the largest national banks debanked customers for political beliefs or lawful activities, including digital asset firms, between 2020 and 2025.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 A U.S. judge has ruled that the Constitution does not guarantee Americans a right to clean drinking water or to accurate information from government officials, Bloomberg reports.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Alabama's crypto ATM fraud law took effect Oct. 1, requiring operators to fully refund new customers who were scammed into a transaction, plus fees.@coinmarketcap 2 sources

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico's city council passed an ordinance banning Bitcoin ATMs and cashier-facilitated crypto transactions, giving operators 45 days to remove kiosks.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Albuquerque's crypto ATM ban is now in effect, with noncompliant businesses facing $500 daily fines and possible license revocation, and kiosks must be gone by Dec. 5.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 All 11 Democratic members of the Senate Banking Committee are calling for a public congressional hearing on prediction markets, citing the committee's oversight responsibility.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Andreessen Horowitz-backed OpenReserve secured preliminary OCC approval for a national bank charter, with plans to offer tokenized deposits and digital asset custody.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Andrew Cuomo told Bloomberg the CLARITY Act failed because one party didn't want "the other side" to "look like they were winners" ahead of the midterms.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Bernstein expects the SEC and CFTC to pursue "aggressive and swift" crypto rulemaking after the CLARITY Act failed its Senate cloture vote.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Binance co-CEO Richard Teng says he hopes the CLARITY Act still becomes law to prevent regulatory backtracking, calling a reversal of progress "the biggest fear" for the industry.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the CLARITY Act's failure was actually good for crypto, saying regulators have since acted more aggressively pro-crypto than anything the bill considered.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen called the CLARITY Act's failure "a massive tailwind" for crypto, telling Bitcoin Magazine "this gray cloud hanging over investors’ heads of uncertainy" is now gone.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Bloomberg Intelligence's Nathan Dean says the CLARITY Act will not return this Congress. "Lame ducks are lame. We don't think the CLARITY Act is going to come back."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Brad Garlinghouse urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act, saying "perfect can't be the enemy of good" and that the bill is the product of "real, substantive trades" senators should stand behind.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Brian Armstrong told CNBC that even if the CLARITY Act doesn't pass, there will still be "a good outcome," pointing to the SEC and CFTC's readiness to issue crypto rules.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Brian Armstrong told CNBC the CLARITY Act is "ready to get a yes vote" in the Senate, saying senators he has spoken with are on board.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order calling for experts to draft recommendations strengthening the state's AI safety laws, saying action is needed "before it's too late."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says "the new frontier of finance will be written by opportunity, innovation and clear rules."

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