Backstory · 2026

Global News Tracker

A daily regulatory news digest, sorted by region.

An internal tool I built for BitGo's content and international teams. Crypto regulation moves in every market at once, and nobody has time to read twenty sources every morning.

How it works

  • Pulls curated regulatory RSS feeds, including Cointelegraph Regulation, Ledger Insights, the SEC and the FCA
  • Runs 23 jurisdiction-targeted Google News queries, each from that market's own Google News edition
  • Tags every article by region: APAC, EMEA, Americas or Global
  • Deduplicates, sorts by timestamp, and keeps a 30-day rolling buffer in Supabase
  • Sends a region-organised digest to Slack and Telegram every morning
  • Optionally emails alerts for tier-1 sources only

What it costs

Nothing. It runs on public RSS feeds, Google News, a GitHub Actions cron, and free tiers. Tools that do this commercially charge real money for it.