Vol. I · 4 issues filed

Policy
Friday

5 May 2026 · EEA
The weekly column on regulatory developments that open or close the door for institutions building on Ethereum — with the editorial machinery on view.
Latest issue · 2026-W18

April 27 – May 3, 2026

Net signal: Mixed — competing signals — read the cards.

21 documents reviewed
6 agencies scanned
2 signals filed

In this issue

  • CFTC CFTC sued Wisconsin (and previously New York, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois) to block state-level gambling law interference with federally-regulated prediction markets including Polymarket and Crypto.com, establishing…
  • TREAS OFAC designated Iranian shadow banking networks and explicitly cited 'digital asset exchanges used to evade sanctions' as a target mechanism, signaling intensified scrutiny of blockchain-based…
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Section II

All editions

Every issue, most recent first. Click a card to read the full recap.

  1. Issue 004 Mixed

    April 27 – May 3, 2026

    CFTC sued Wisconsin (and previously New York, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois) to block state-level gambling law interference with federally-regulated prediction markets including Polymarket…

    2 signals · 21 docs · 6 agencies
  2. Issue 003 Opening

    March 26 – May 2, 2026

    SEC Chairman Paul Atkins declared a fundamental regulatory shift toward crypto assets through three concrete mechanisms: (1) crypto-token taxonomy distinguishing securities from…

    5 signals · 87 docs · 6 agencies
  3. Issue 002 Opening

    March 14 – March 20, 2026

    SEC and CFTC jointly published a 68-page interpretive release creating the first unified crypto asset taxonomy — five categories covering digital commodities…

    4 signals · 30 docs · 6 agencies
  4. Issue 001 Opening

    February 26 – March 5, 2026

    OCC published proposed rules implementing the GENIUS Act — the first federal stablecoin framework — covering payment stablecoin issuers, foreign issuers, and…

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Policy Friday runs an automated pipeline against official press rooms, an editorial filter against a public spec, and a human approval gate before publication. Below: the parameters used at the time of build, and the catalog of all signals filed to date.

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Filter parameters

sensitivity
MEDIUM
lookback_days
7
geographic_scope
US
max_items
5

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Catalog reach

editions filed
4
signals catalogued
13
distinct agencies
4
distinct tags used
9

The signal catalog aggregates every filed signal across all editions, filterable by tag, impact, and agency.