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Abu Dhabi Global Market FSRA Grants Full Commercial Licenses to Tier-1 Digital Custodians
Financial Services Regulatory Authority approves expanded institutional permissions covering custody, multilateral trading facilities, and prime services.
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CFTC Asserts Spot Commodity Jurisdiction in High-Profile Offshore Derivatives Action
Federal commodity regulator details anti-fraud authority over leveraged digital asset contracts marketed to United States retail counterparties.
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Federal Appeals Court Weighs Smart Contract Precedent in Open-Source Sanctions Dispute
Judicial panel considers arguments on whether immutable software code deployed to public blockchains constitutes sanctionable property under IEEPA.
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U.S. Treasury OFAC Updates Sanctions Compliance Guidance for Digital Asset Custodians
New regulatory advisory specifies risk-based screening controls, automated address monitoring, and attribution standards for institutional wallet infrastructure.
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CLARITY Act Safe Harbor Clause Shields Non-Custodial Developers and Node Operators
Statutory provisions protect decentralized open-source contributors from broker-dealer classification while establishing objective metrics for protocol maturation.
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Senate Banking Markup on CLARITY Act Clarifies SEC and CFTC Digital Asset Boundaries
Bipartisan committee compromise defines statutory jurisdictional lines between investment contract disclosures and exclusive spot commodity oversight.
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SEC and Ripple File Second Circuit Briefs Over Secondary Market XRP Programmatic Sales
Federal appellate proceedings examine Judge Analisa Torres' landmark distinction between institutional distributions and secondary exchange trading under the Howey test.