The dominance of Republicans in all three government branches has been broken by the midterms, and the industry will feel the result as Congress changes hands. 

South Korea's ruling party wants to delay crypto tax by about two years, as it waits for global tax-sharing rules and new digital assets law. 

Russia’s main bourse wants back the crypto trading Russians do abroad, and one of the coins it's listing is issued by a company that freezes wallets on the U.S. sanctions list. 

The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits. 

A CoinDesk-commissioned poll from April sheds light on how voters — who aren't necessarily part of the crypto sector — view this industry.