Today's essential intelligence covering international developments and European affairs. Regulators Recode Crypto
Washington quietly created the first federal-level guardrails for digital assets as President Smith signed the GENIUS Act on Thursday, giving licensed exchanges a 24-month safe-harbor to register and subjecting stable-coin issuers to bank-style 10 % capital buffers (Bloomberg, WSJ). Brussels’ Sanctions Machine Rolls On
The EU’s 18th Russia package now in the Official Journal black-lists 22 banks, 23 firms and 10 Kremlin-linked figures, plus 18 third-country intermediaries from China to Mauritius (ANSA).