Weekly Digital Assets Regulatory Brief: Week 18-2026
15 signals across 11 jurisdictions: the CFTC sues New York and Wisconsin to defend exclusive federal jurisdiction over prediction markets, and files its first event-contract insider trading case against an active-duty Green Beret who allegedly traded Polymarket on classified Maduro raid intelligence; OFAC designates Central Bank of Iran-linked crypto wallets as Treasury's 'Operation Economic Fury' freezes $344M in USDT; the SEC opens public comment on a NYSE Arca proposal that would set an 85% generic listing threshold for crypto commodity-trust ETFs; Canada's Spring Economic Update 2026 bans crypto ATMs and creates a $352.7M Financial Crimes Agency; Banking Circle becomes the first MiCA-licensed bank to launch a stablecoin settlement service; HM Treasury publishes a draft Statutory Instrument carving stablecoin payment services out of FCA cryptoasset authorisation; the HKMA warns the public on fake 'HKDAP' and 'HSBC' tokens; the SFC issues a framework for secondary trading of tokenised SFC-authorised investment products; MAS grants Robinhood in-principle approval for a Singapore brokerage; Pakistan's PVARA mandates prior authorisation for any virtual-asset pilot; South Africa's Treasury publishes draft Capital Flow Management Regulations bringing crypto into the exchange-control regime with five-year prison terms for non-compliance; the Central Bank of Kenya opens recruitment for VASP licensing roles; Israel's Capital Markets Authority approves the BILS shekel-pegged sandbox launch; and the Isle of Man Government publishes its VA/VASP sector risk assessment.