Practical guides and analysis that explain the rules behind the data. Entity pages carry the current state; regulatory events live in the news section.
Kalshi is one US-regulated exchange that also serves members abroad. Polymarket is two products under one name: an international site and a separate US exchange. The difference decides who can use each and which regulator answers for it.
Read guideA VASP is a crypto business as the FATF defines it. A CASP is one as MiCA defines it. Neither word is a licence, and each country names its own permission differently. Here is what the terms mean and how to check a firm.
Read guideA central bank digital currency is a state-issued digital form of a national currency. This tracker sorts fourteen countries and currency areas by stage, dates every row to the central bank page it rests on, and notes where a CBDC sits beside limits on crypto.
Read guideA prediction market lets people trade contracts that pay out on the outcome of an event. Whether that counts as regulated finance or as gambling is the question regulators and courts are still arguing over.
Read guideA ban on crypto can mean a criminal prohibition, a ban on trading businesses, or a ban on banks and payments. This list separates the three and cites the law behind each entry.
Read guideThe GENIUS Act is the first US federal law for payment stablecoins. It decides who may issue them, what backs them and which exchanges may offer them. Here is what it says, when it starts and what the agencies have written so far.
Read guideMiCA decides which crypto firms may serve EU clients, which stablecoins they may handle and how client assets are held. Here is what it requires, when it applied and what it does not cover.
Read guideKYC decides who an exchange may serve, what it must ask and when it must ask again. It is only one of several layers that determine whether a person can use a crypto platform.
Read guideNo single platform replaces Binance everywhere. Residency rules, licences and product limits decide which alternatives you can actually use, so this guide compares availability first.
Read guideSanctions can block a person, a wallet, an exchange or a single token. Here is how the US, EU and UK rules work, and how they differ from an exchange simply not serving a country.
Read guideThe Travel Rule decides what an exchange must know about the sender and recipient of a transfer. It is an information requirement, not a ban, and it works differently in each jurisdiction.
Read guideThere is no single stablecoin licence. Each jurisdiction regulates the issuer, the reserves and the intermediaries differently, so the same token can be open on one platform and restricted on another.
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