Regulation & Compliance

September 10

September 9

Regulation & Compliance

Hong Kong crypto regulation: Why the current path favors stability

HK$5,000,000. That is the floor.

CWCameron Walton·18 min read

September 6

September 5

Regulation & Compliance

UAE Crypto Regulation: What the Latest Rules Mean

VARA issued 36 enforcement notices between August 2024 and August 2025. The notices covered violations including unlicensed virtual asset activity and…

CWCameron Walton·19 min read

September 3

Regulation & Compliance

Crypto Compliance Solutions: Why Most Launchpad Tools Fail

In the first half of 2025, U.S. authorities led by the DOJ and FinCEN imposed $900 million in AML-related penalties against crypto firms. Over the same period…

CWCameron Walton·18 min read

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Regulation & Compliance

UK crypto regulation framework: does it kill token launches?

On June 30, 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority published its finalized cryptoasset regulatory framework. It is detailed, phased, and built around binding…

CWCameron Walton·21 min read

August 28

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Regulation & Compliance

Crypto compliance certificates: why they are security theater

A crypto compliance certificate is not a license. It is not a regulatory safe harbor. It does not stop the SEC, FinCEN, BaFin, or any other competent authority…

CWCameron Walton·20 min read

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Regulation & Compliance

Is crypto compliance software just an expensive bottleneck?

Here is the number that should keep every launchpad founder awake at night: more than $230 million. That is the scale of the penalties assessed against BitMEX…

CWCameron Walton·22 min read

August 16

August 15

Regulation & Compliance

Singapore Crypto Regulation: The Rise of Accredited-Only IDOs

Singapore has not banned token launches. It has done something more consequential: it has made the legally comfortable version of a token launch increasingly…

CWCameron Walton·20 min read

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SEC crypto regulation: Why ambiguity fuels launchpad innovation

The Howey test dates to a 1946 Supreme Court decision and is now 80 years old. Most token-launch teams still behave as if a clever ticker, a "utility"…

CWCameron Walton·14 min read

July 24

Regulation & Compliance

India's crypto tax: A legal shield for token launchpads?

India taxes crypto gains at 30%. It applies 1% TDS to qualifying VDA transfers. It now requires prescribed crypto-asset transaction reporting from April 1…

CWCameron Walton·15 min read

July 21

Regulation & Compliance

US crypto regulation: why SEC crackdowns help launchpads

$782.9 million. That was the value of Ripple’s institutional XRP sales that a federal court found to be unregistered securities offerings in July 2023. The…

CWCameron Walton·14 min read

July 20

Regulation & Compliance

Crypto regulation bill: lessons from our launchpad delay

The Senate Banking Committee voted 15–9 to advance the CLARITY Act on May 14, 2026 — and I still cannot tell you whether the IDO I'm advising launches in Q3…

CWCameron Walton·10 min read

July 18

Regulation & Compliance

MiCA crypto regulation: the rise of standardized token launches

MiCA did not make token launches safe. It made certain parts of the sale process legible.

CWCameron Walton·15 min read

July 15

Regulation & Compliance

European crypto regulation: End of permissionless IDOs?

July 1, 2026 killed a convenient fiction.

CWCameron Walton·16 min read

July 12

Regulation & Compliance

Crypto compliance: does it really kill Web3 decentralization?

The first number I look for in any token launch is not APY, not community size, and not the “revolutionary” nonsense in the deck. It is the exclusion list.

CWCameron Walton·13 min read

July 8

Regulation & Compliance

Crypto regulation: my costly lesson from a blocked token sale

I lost $4,200 in potential allocation because my VPN pinged from the wrong exit node. That's the number that should make any retail participant sit up.

CWCameron Walton·11 min read

July 7

Regulation & Compliance

Crypto KYC: Lessons from my failed IDO verification

I burned 14 minutes on a launchpad's verification flow last Tuesday. Passport scan, liveness blink, proof of residence, wallet signature, two-factor…

CWCameron Walton·11 min read

June 22

Regulation & Compliance

Clear a false AML block on Polkastarter IDO sales

Last cycle, I watched a Discord thread spiral for six hours. Forty-three retail participants — not whales, not snipers, just regular wallets — got locked out…

CWCameron Walton·9 min read