Blockchain Legal Resource

On March 17, 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the release of interpretive guidance (Guidance) seeking to clarify the application of the federal securities laws to various categories of crypto assets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also joined the guidance to assure market participants it would interpret the Commodity Exchange Act in a consistent fashion.

On March 6, 2026, the Treasury Department published a report to Congress entitled “Innovative Technologies to Counter Illicit Finance Involving Digital Assets.” Required under the GENIUS Act, the report evaluates how financial institutions can use new technologies to detect and prevent illicit finance involving digital assets, and recommends regulatory and policy actions.

On February 25, 2026, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), published draft regulations for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. The proposed rules focus on stablecoin activities of entities that the OCC will supervise under the GENIUS Act, including stablecoin issuers that are owned or chartered as national banks, as well as certain federally licensed nonbanks and foreign stablecoin issuers operating in the US.

On June 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act” or GENIUS Act.  The new Act establishes a comprehensive mechanism for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and represents the first major legislation Congress has passed on digital assets.