Securities laws need readjustment to account for some of the unique qualities of digital assets — and market structure legislation should pave the way for better oversight of those nascent offerings, attorneys and a crypto executive told a Capitol Hill hearing. The hearing, titled “American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets Aligning the U.S. Securities Laws for the Digital Age,” came against a backdrop of wild trading in crypto holdings. The Trump administration paused recently instituted tariffs for the vast majority of trading partners, while jacking up tariffs on China. Bitcoin, in one example, surged 7% ... (full story)