Senior Reporter · Joined 2020
Covers Crypto Regulation, Crypto Business and Market Updates.
Melker Bengtsson is a Swedish writer with 10+ years of experience in cryptocurrencies, investing and personal finance. He holds a BSc in Finance from the University of Gothenburg.
AUSTRAC, the Australian financial crime regulator, has suspended crypto ATM operator Cryptolink's registration, shutting down 96 crypto ATMs throughout Australia. The suspension took effect Sunday and will remain for three months.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has called a meeting to discuss Regulation Crypto, its first formal ruleset for crypto, a new dedicated offering regime for crypto fundraising, on August 14th.
Japan has created a standalone Crypto Assets and Stablecoins Division within the FSA, a big regulatory upgrade for an asset class previously handled by a back-office unit in the agency.
The U.S. Senate leaves for August recess without a vote on the CLARITY Act. Thune says the bill will be queued up first thing when Senators return on September 14th.
Cloudflare Wallets is a stablecoin wallet built for AI agents, letting them make autonomous purchases of APIs, data and content, with human guardrails set in advance and settlement over x402.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon publicly backs the CLARITY Act after a year of bank lobbying against it, as Senate Republicans aim for a floor vote before the August recess.
The CLARITY Act text now contains the ethics provision that was the last major point of contention. But there are still issues with it, namely who enforces it.
Trump urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act to honor Senator Lindsey Graham. Republicans are pushing for a vote before the August recess, with ethics rules the main blocker.
CFTC Chief Michael Selig urged the US Senate to pass the CLARITY Act. With around four weeks before the next recess, it might be the last realistic window for passage.
Belgium's FSMA added six platforms to its list of fraudulent crypto-asset service providers. It's been touted as MiCA enforcement, but the numbers say otherwise: practically nothing has changed.
Cloudflare has opened the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, letting publishers and developers charge for access to any page, API, dataset or tool they host, with payments settled in stablecoins over x402.
Nearly 1,700 investors are suing Binance and Changpeng Zhao in London, seeking £150 million over high-risk derivatives allegedly sold without FCA authorisation, both before and after the products were banned.
