29 folders open · 9 verified so far · last updated November 4, 2026
This is the current issue being built in public. Every topic the issue is tracking sits in a folder below, filed in the drawer where it will appear. A folder states facts only once its stamp reads Verified — in the issue and its primary source is attached; before that, it is a topic and a status, nothing more. Topics carried in from earlier issues keep their first-covered month and their next date, so nothing this digest has ever flagged quietly disappears.
Nothing filed yet.
On November 2, SEC staff added Questions 1.4–1.6 to the crypto-asset FAQs: token holders who merely vote in a functional system's broad governance are generally not a "central party" — control means actual power over access, validation, voting rules, or code. Staff views only; the FAQs create no obligations.
On November 3, the Division of Corporation Finance said, on the facts presented and counsel's opinion, that it views Canton Coin as a "digital commodity" under the Commission's March 2026 interpretation, and that staff will not recommend enforcement action if the coin is minted programmatically by Super Validators, Validators and application providers as described, without registration under Securities Act §5 or Exchange Act §12(g). Staff views only.
On November 3, CFTC Chairman Selig announced that perpetual futures contracts on individual equity securities ("Equity Perps") can begin trading for the first time on designated contract markets that are also notice-registered with the SEC as national securities exchanges to trade security futures products — the crypto-born perpetual format, extended to single stocks inside the U.S. regulated framework.
On October 1, the SEC proposed tailored custody rules for crypto assets held by registered investment advisers and regulated funds (File No. S7-2026-35) — including holding crypto in self-custody under certain circumstances and using state trust companies as custodians. A proposal, not a final rule; comments are due December 7, 2026.
On November 3, in the Eastern District of Virginia, Jorge Figueira was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a money-laundering conspiracy that moved illicit funds through cryptocurrency wallets, exchange accounts, and shell companies; he also agreed to a $1 billion money judgment.
A federal ruling in the Southern District of New York on the challenge to the CFTC's equity-perps approval is reported in the press for November 3; the order itself is being pulled from the court file, and nothing is stated here until it has been read.
The study report for the Joint Commission on Technology and Science was presented November 4, 2026: it recommends a limited, risk-based pilot — independent verification for selected higher-risk public-sector AI, with lighter oversight where risk is lower — rather than statewide adoption now. The report (Virginia State University's Center for Responsible AI, November 2026) was due November 1 under HB 797 / SB 384.
Nothing filed yet.
Comments on FinCEN's proposed special measure — a prohibition on covered institutions transmitting funds involving the A7 Network's sub-agents (docket FINCEN-2026-0265) — were due November 4, 2026, per the October 5 Federal Register notice (FR Doc. 2026-20371). The comment period has now closed; a final determination follows.
October closed with the Senate's September 15 cloture vote failed at 49–50 and a motion to reconsider pending; the bill sits on the Senate calendar — stalled, not law.
Comments closed October 19; the rule is still being written while the Act's effective date approaches.
Comments closed October 20 with a heavy, divided public file; no final rule yet.
The OCC's piece finished in October; Treasury's §3 rule and the FDIC's piece remain open — partially built, clock running.
The final rule reached White House review on October 1 and sat there all month; reporting is not yet required, and the rule is already a year past its statutory deadline.
Draft rules were released October 6, with the hearing and comment close on October 26; the Attorney General's final set is still owed.
The implementing procedures ordered in the August memorandum remain publicly unverified — no public White House or DHS document has been located, and this folder stays openly labeled rather than resolved either way.
Comments closed October 15; the final guidance is pending.
The replacement proposal has been in White House review since August 4, unpublished — stalled in review.
The statement is pending. The November 21 comment date is carried here exactly as October carried it: reported by the Associated Press, not verified — no FTC or Federal Register extension document has been located for it.
The nation's first same-day kiosk ban is in its removal tail; the deadline stands.
No verified development in October; the file's last verified milestone remains the industry's August 31 letter — carried openly rather than dropped.
Reported out of Ways & Means 38–5 on September 16, then never scheduled — no House floor action in October. Reported, awaiting the floor.
The September 17 order is in effect, and its comment file (No. 4-927) is open — live relief, rulemaking to follow.
The 2026–2027 Priority Guidance Plan (September 29) names four digital-asset projects — transaction guidance including wrapping, electronic delivery of broker statements, information-reporting guidance, and cross-border (CARF) broker-reporting regulations. All four are open.
Two dated deliverables from the fall's executive orders are still outstanding; the first falls due this month, and this folder will report whether it lands.
Executive Order N-9-26 (September 18) gave a convened expert panel two months to recommend stronger state AI safety law, including a verified off-switch for frontier models. The recommendations land this month. November 4 sweep: the order's own text fixes the date — November 16, 2026.
The ringleader of the $245 million social-engineering ring pleaded guilty on September 8; the case sits open between plea and sentencing.
October's issue did not separately re-verify this profile's status and said so openly; the last verified reading (September 30) is: in development.
Comments on the CFTC's advance notice for Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions (Reg CTX) and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets (Reg CAM) — the agency's own crypto market rulebooks, opened in October — must be received on or before December 14, 2026.
Treasury's proposed outbound-investment rule — notification duties, and some prohibitions, for U.S. investment into foreign "notifiable technologies" — was published October 26, and written comments must be received by December 7, 2026.
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