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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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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says Congress "failed to deliver" the CLARITY Act but pledges to establish a crypto regulatory framework anyway, using the CFTC's existing authority.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says critics of the agency’s proposed crypto exchange regulation are “dangerously inviting the next Sam Bankman-Fried to run roughshod over the American people.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says the agency has exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets because they match bids and offers across state lines, with Congress equipping the CFTC to police fraud.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig says the agency intends to deliver, “once and for all, the developer protections” from the CLARITY Act negotiations. “A builder shouldn’t have to register as an intermediary simply for shipping code.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig told CNBC he's "absolutely disappointed in Congress" for failing to pass the CLARITY Act, adding, "we've got statutory authority and we're going to use it."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig told Fox Business he would "love to see Congress take up the CLARITY Act once again" in a "form that makes sense," calling it "a very large statute."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig told Fox Business the agency will "go to war with the statute we've got" without the CLARITY Act.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig told Natalie Brunell that if the US isn’t the crypto capital of the world, it will be “one of our adversaries." "If we don’t own this market, somebody else will.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig told Natalie Brunell the prior administration told crypto firms to register without rules, comparing it to a “Roach Motel." "You’ve got nothing there to hang your hat on, and you can never leave.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 CFTC official Mel Gunewardena says the US has an "opportunity and a responsibility" to lead the financial transformation toward tokenization, stablecoins, smart contracts and AI.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says the failed CLARITY Act cloture vote doesn't mean the bill is dead, telling Bloomberg the GENIUS Act also failed its first cloture vote before ultimately passing.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told CNBC that even if Democrats win the House, the GENIUS Act is not “something that’s at risk of being reversed,” calling it “the only major piece of bipartisan legislation” passed in two years. “There may be other areas of crypto that have

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Circle president Heath Tarbert urged Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, calling it the missing piece of the US digital asset regulatory framework.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Circle president Heath Tarbert warned Congress that "whoever leads in this technology is going to end up writing the rules of the game," arguing infrastructure design choices are themselves policy decisions.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Citadel Securities urged the SEC and CFTC to confirm the SEC is the primary regulator of equity-linked products, warning venues are using CFTC self-certification to bypass SEC oversight.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Citi says Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will likely cut 20- and 30-year bond auction sizes by $3B each at the Nov. 4 quarterly refunding, and could cancel 20-year sales entirely.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Fox Business he is "pretty optimistic that we're going to get more than 60 votes" on today's CLARITY Act procedural vote.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Money Rehab "a couple of the big banks" fought to kill the CLARITY Act because "they didn't want the competition." "They really kind of went to the government to try to kill their competition."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Scott Melker that the SEC and CFTC rules replacing the CLARITY Act are "arguably going to be more permissive in certain ways than we would have seen" from the bill.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase chief policy officer Faryar Shirzad told Fox Business there is bipartisan agreement on the need for a federal crypto framework, but "ultimately the politics of Washington overwhelmed it."

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack says onchain finance and tokenization "aren't coming — they're here," urging the US to pass the CLARITY Act and lead the industry.

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack told Bloomberg Crypto "it's time to stop talking and start voting" on the CLARITY Act.

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