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RegulationHong Kong’s 2023 retail-crypto day was a licence regime
The AMLO trading-platform rules started. Licensed venues may serve retail with suitability and token due diligence. A start date is not a shopping holiday.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationThe EU Parliament voted MiCA through. A vote is not yet a licence.
Europe now has a text the co-legislators have blessed. Firms still need the Official Journal, technical standards, and a supervisor who will actually issue a licence.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationOFAC listed Tornado Cash. That is a sanctions list, not a code review.
Treasury said the service had laundered billions, including proceeds attributed to North Korean hackers. Compliance desks now have addresses to avoid. A protocol mailing list is not the SDN list.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationBiden’s digital-assets order is a process memo, not a ban
The White House asked for reports on consumers, financial stability, illicit finance, competitiveness, inclusion, and a possible US CBDC. That is coordination. It is not a protocol change.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationChina’s 2021 crypto notice banned the business, not the maths
Exchanges, brokers, token sales and derivatives serving mainland residents are out. Holding a key is not the same as running a venue. May’s mining crackdown was a different instrument.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationEl Salvador made bitcoin legal tender. That is one country’s experiment.
Businesses are told to accept bitcoin alongside the US dollar. Chivo, ATMs, and a $30 signup bonus are the product. Volatility and the IMF are the weather around it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationChina told miners to leave. Hashrate moved. The protocol did not.
Vice-Premier Liu He’s committee named mining in a risk list. Provinces that hosted the world’s hash began to shut barns. Bitcoin kept producing blocks at whatever hash remained.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationBitMEX’s charges are about a derivatives shop, not Bitcoin
An unregistered crypto-derivatives platform that took US customers, the government says, without the AML programme the law wanted. Leverage is a company product. Liquidation engines are too.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationThe SEC’s Telegram case is about a token sale, not a chat app
About 2.9 billion Grams sold to 171 buyers, including more than a billion to US purchasers, the complaint says — unregistered, with delivery tied to a late-October chain launch. An ICO can be a securities case.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationFacebook’s Libra taught regulators to write faster
A social network with billions of users proposed a payment token governed in Geneva, backed by bank deposits and short-term government paper. That is a company product aimed at scale. It is not bitcoin.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationNew York’s Tether order is about a balance sheet, not a peg algorithm
About $850 million stuck at Crypto Capital, then a line of credit on Tether’s cash, the filing says. A dollar token is a company IOU plus whatever sits behind it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readLatest Regulation news
RegulationThe SEC cancelled a crypto-exemption vote. That is not “clarity”.
Commissioners were due to consider proposing a tailored offering regime for some crypto fundraising. The session was pulled. Existing securities law did not take the afternoon off.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min readRegulationFaster crypto ETP listings are a process change, not a hall pass
On 17 September 2025 the SEC approved generic listing standards for Commodity-Based Trust Shares, including some digital assets. That shortens a queue. It does not rewrite Bitcoin.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min readRegulation