SEC Crypto News & Enforcement

Coverage focus:

• Enforcement actions — cases against exchanges, issuers, and DeFi protocols; settlements, withdrawals, and their market impact
• ETF decisions — spot product approvals (BTC in 2024, ETH later that year, and the active pipeline for SOL/XRP/other filings), futures-based approvals, options approvals on existing ETFs
• Commissioner statements — dissents, speeches, and policy papers that signal where the commission is heading
• Rulemaking — custody rules, market-structure proposals, the scope of securities laws as applied to tokens
• Jurisdictional turf — the ongoing SEC/CFTC boundary disputes, especially on prediction markets and DeFi

The editorial approach is to trace each story back to the actual SEC document (complaint, order, statement, rule text) rather than work from secondary coverage. Where a ruling has practical consequences — changes to ETF eligibility, adjustments to custody requirements, disclosure obligations for tokens — we try to make the translation concrete.

For the regulatory picture beyond the SEC: see the broader regulation tag and stablecoin regulation. The GENIUS Act explainer is the longest-form guide we’ve published on US crypto legislation.