📰 Crypto Digest

Press review for 16 mars 2026 – editorial selection
Last updated: 07:17

Daily News Summary: Global regulators advance crypto rules as Australia backs a new framework, U.S. agencies coordinate oversight, and CBDC debates intersect with market infrastructure.

🏛 Australia Senate backs crypto framework in regulatory push

• The proposal would bring crypto platforms and custodians under Australia’s financial-services law.
• Operators that hold client tokens must obtain licences and meet new asset-safeguarding standards.

Sources

Australia Senate Backs Crypto Framework in Latest Regulatory Push decrypt.co

🏛 The SEC and CFTC join hands: State of Crypto

• The SEC and CFTC signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate crypto regulation.
• The memorandum aims to establish a unified regulatory approach to the digital asset sector.

Sources

The SEC and CFTC join hands: State of Crypto coindesk.com

Here is why Nasdaq and owner of NYSE are putting the $126 trillion equity market on blockchain coindesk.com

🏛 CFTC crackdown on insider problem in prediction markets

• The CFTC issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts and opened a 45-day rulemaking.
• Kalshi disciplinary cases included Langford: 5-year suspension and $2,246.36 penalty; Kaptur: 2-year suspension and $20,397.58 penalty.
• The advisory asks questions about asymmetric information, cross-market manipulation, and participant safeguards.

Sources

The CFTC is cracking down on the growing insider problem in prediction markets cryptoslate.com

🏛 Six senators oppose March digital-dollar ban

• The six holdouts were Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Chris Murphy, Rick Scott, Tommy Tuberville, and Chris Van Hollen.
• The Senate moved to proceed on H.R. 6644 by 90-8 on March 4 after an initial 84-6 cloture vote on March 2.
• CBDC language defines a digital currency as a direct liability of the Federal Reserve and sets a sunset on Dec. 31, 2030.

Sources

Who are the six senators who just opposed the March digital dollar ban cryptoslate.com

🏛 Nasdaq and NYSE owner push blockchain for equity market

• The race for the 'everything exchange' makes Wall Street operators and crypto exchanges rivals and partners at the same time.

Sources

Here is why Nasdaq and owner of NYSE are putting the $126 trillion equity market on blockchain coindesk.com

Review based on an editorial selection of reliable press sources.