Make Crypto Make Sense™
Institutional intelligence before the institutions arrive.
Every week, we track what moved across SEC, ESMA, MAS, FINMA, and 20+ regulatory bodies — and tell you what it means for your desk. Built from primary sources. Written for professionals.
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Essential Analysis
- •MiCA's Passport Problem: Europe's Crypto Single Market Is Fracturing Before It Begins
Why MiCA's single-market promise is fragmenting across 27 implementation regimes.
- •UK Property (Digital Assets) Act 2025 Guide
The legal framework that finally gives digital assets property rights under English law.
- •Stablecoins vs CBDCs vs Tokenized Deposits
The structural comparison your treasury team needs before choosing rails.
- •Off-Bank FX Settlement Regulatory Guide
How settlement is moving outside traditional banking — and what regulators are doing about it.
- •EU MiCA Enforcement Heatmap
Which member states are enforcing, which are delaying, and what that means for your licensing strategy.
This Week's Intelligence
- •M-Pesa Just Put 60 Million Users on Blockchain— Mar 6, 2026
Fed/FDIC/OCC confirmed tokenised securities get same treatment. FATF endorsed programmable AML controls for stablecoins.
- •The SEC Is Now Using AI to Examine You— Mar 6, 2026
Chair Atkins revealed AI embedded across SEC examinations. ESMA found 17% of EU firms already run agentic AI.
- •Four Jurisdictions Went Live in a Single Week— Mar 5, 2026
EBA killed PSD2-MiCA tolerance. Australia opens VASP registration March 31. Hong Kong confirms first stablecoin licences this month.
- •Tether Just Restructured Around US Compliance— Mar 1, 2026
USA-T pivot under GENIUS Act. Canton Network ran first cross-border tokenised repo. Nigeria processed $22B in stablecoin flows.
Analysis built from BIS, ECB, ESMA, FINMA, MAS, SEC, FATF, and 60+ primary sources per week. Written by a cross-border transactions lawyer since 1998.
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