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US tokenisation regulatory tracker, 2026

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Chronological detail demoted from united states to manage that page's length cap. Covers SEC, OCC, Federal Reserve, and market-structure developments touching tokenisation and stablecoins that are no longer the most recent activity but remain useful reference.

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2026

  • 22 Jul 2026SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said some crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under federal securities laws depending on structure and management, with curated vaults holding $8.6 billion across 788 vaults as of July 2026 and Coinbase and Robinhood routing customer stablecoin balances into them for yield. Curator discretion appears to be the classification hinge.
  • 21 Jul 2026Augustus, a startup building a federally chartered clearing bank for stablecoin-era payments, raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation in a Tiger Global-led Series B, having obtained conditional OCC approval for a full-service national bank charter in May 2026, and is chasing a Federal Reserve master account alongside the charter.
  • 30 Jun 2026More than 140 companies, including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Coinbase, launched Open Standard to issue Open USD (OUSD), a jointly-governed stablecoin distributing most reserve income to partner businesses rather than a single issuer. See Open USD.
  • 20 May 2026President Trump directed the Federal Reserve to assess, within 120 days, its authority to extend Reserve Bank account access to non-bank digital-asset firms.

Older entries (the BNY-Circle USDC custody expansion, Paxos DLT clearing-agency registration, JPM policy op-ed, Fireblocks Open Transaction Layer, SoFi SOFID launch, FDIC BSA proposal, tokenised-MMF prospectuses, and earlier items) are not yet migrated here; see BNY, Paxos, and the raw archive.