We mapped every major 2025 crypto regulation change to show you which rules actually protect your wallet
In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure.
Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year answering the “boring” questions that decide whether a market can scale: who is allowed to issue a “digital dollar,” what backs it, how fast investors can get a regulated wrapper like an ETF, and what counts as proper custody when the asset is a private key instead of a paper certificate.
That’s why 2025 mattered even if you never read a single bill. Most of this year’s new regulations didn’t focus on punishing bad actors.
Instead, they focused on whether banks can plug into stablecoins…
