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Policy
US state and federal rulemaking, plus the international standards bodies: bills, licenses, enforcement and the reserves states are building.
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Indiana Crypto Law First to Require Retirement Options, Then Bans ATMs
Indiana’s crypto law contains its own contradiction. On March 3, 2026, Gov. Mike Braun signed House Enrolled Act 1042, making Indiana the first state to require…
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Which States Have a Bitcoin Reserve, and What Each Law Actually Says
Three states have enacted one. The laws were read line by line for this piece, and not one of them obliges the state to buy a…
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State-of-Crypto: Idaho Regulates Crypto Without a Digital Asset Law
Two dedicated crypto bills have failed in Idaho since 2024, and the state supervises the industry anyway: through a 2003 money transmitter act, a utility rate…
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Georgia’s Transaction Alley Meets Stablecoins as Fiserv Launches FIUSD Rails
US merchants paid a record $198 billion in card fees last year, adding about $1,200 annually to the average family’s bills. Fiserv now holds both the…
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Florida Bitcoin Reserve Bill Returns for 2026 as an Inflation Hedge
Venezuela’s inflation hit about 172 percent in 2025 and Argentina’s reached 124 percent in 2023. Miami’s Venezuelan and Argentine communities lean on stablecoins to protect savings…
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Delaware Crypto Firms Exit as Tokenized Shares Boom Offshore in 2026
Delaware wrote the law allowing blockchain shares in 2017, eight years before the market existed. Almost none of the $1.8 billion in tokenized stock uses it;…
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Connecticut Crypto Law Bans a State Bitcoin Reserve as Texas Builds One
Hartford insurers already tap a catastrophe-bond market worth $63.9 billion by early 2026. In April, Schroders Capital and Hannover Re closed the first live reinsurance deal…
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State-of-Crypto: Colorado Crypto Tax Program Draws 48 Payments in 2024 Despite First-Mover Status
The 48 payments totaled just $17,544, run through PayPal’s crypto hub for a fee. In Denver, burglary made up 96 percent of cannabis-industry crime in 2022,…
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State-of-Crypto: California Crypto Law Takes Effect July 2026 With $100,000 Daily Fines
California’s Office of Administrative Law disapproved the DFPI’s draft rules in May, even as regulators fined crypto lender Nexo $500,000 for loans to more than 5,400…
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State-of-Crypto: Arkansas Crypto Mining Law Reversed in 2024 After 51 Counties Push Back
Walmart’s blockchain food-traceability system, built with IBM in Bentonville, traced a package of mangoes to its source farm in 2.2 seconds, a job that once took…
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State-of-Crypto: Arizona Bitcoin Reserve Returns in 2026 After Hobbs Vetoed Three Bills
A blockchain pilot called Water Trace has placed smart meters on 5,000 farms across Arizona, California and Nevada to trade surplus Colorado River water quotas across…
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What Does It All Mean, BASEL?, Rules Face Review, Banks Push Back
Banks must hold a dollar of capital for every dollar of Bitcoin exposure under the rule’s 1,250 percent weight, and breaching a related 2 percent Tier…