27 March 2026
Austin, Texas, USA

Jesse Hamilton

Articles by Jesse Hamilton

Court closes Custodia fight with Federal Reserve just as Fed opens master-account door

CryptoMarch 14, 2026

A federal appeals court rejected the final bid of crypto bank Custodia to challenge the U.S. Federal Reserve's authority over granting master accounts, but the decision arrives at a time that the cenÃ...

U.S. Senate votes to ban CBDCs in housing bill that may face trouble in the House

CryptoMarch 13, 2026

An initiative to ban the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing a government-run digital dollar has been approved in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 89-10 vote in the Senate, but it's tucked inside a housingÃ...

SEC, CFTC end years of rivalry with deal that will mean combined crypto oversight

CryptoMarch 13, 2026

The U.S. markets regulators are melding their operations in the places where the duties of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) overlap, anÃ...

Stablecoins won't get any kind of deposit insurance under GENIUS rules, says FDIC chief

CryptoMarch 12, 2026

Stablecoin users won't benefit from any government guarantee of their money when the new U.S. law is implemented to govern these tokens, said Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Chairman Travis HiÃ...

Senators try to unlock stalled crypto Clarity Act with compromise on stablecoin yield

CryptoMarch 12, 2026

The U.S. banking industry had effectively lobbied to halt the crypto industry's market structure bill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, over a dispute about the proper role for stablecoin rewardâ...

Trump's threat to block Congress over voter-ID law leaves crypto bill on shakier ground

CryptoMarch 11, 2026

If the crypto industry manages its top priority to get its market structure legislation through the U.S. Senate and to the desk of President Donald Trump, he might not sign it if he holds true to thrâ...

Market structure state of play: State of Crypto

CryptoMarch 9, 2026

Key senators critical to advancing the crypto market structure legislation may soon be willing to move forward on the bill, individuals familiar tell CoinDesk. Youre reading State of Crypto, a CoinDâ...

Those who cheered U.S. Bitcoin reserve have spent year watching Trump's order languish

CryptoMarch 8, 2026

President Donald Trump's move to establish what he called a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" within the federal government was greeted with crypto-sector celebration at the start of his administration. Thâ...

U.S. banking agencies say capital should be same for standard or tokenized securities

CryptoMarch 7, 2026

The U.S. Federal Reserve and other regulators told bankers that they need to maintain the same amount of capital to back tokenized securities as they do regulator securities. "The technologies used â...

U.S. Treasury's Bessent calls out crypto 'nihilists' resisting market structure bill

CryptoFebruary 6, 2026

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired warning shots at crypto insiders who are pushing back in the negotiations over a digital assets market structure bill in the Senate briefly aligning with Dâ...