Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
Cryptocurrency regulation is no longer an abstract debate—it is now fought out in courtrooms, congressional chambers, and agency hearing rooms, with outcomes that reshape how exchanges operate, how tokens are classified, and how investors are protected. Zipp's Regulation desk covers the legal clashes that determine the rulebook: Supreme Court decisions redefining the powers of the SEC and CFTC, congressional battles over market-structure bills like the Clarity Act, and precedent-setting lawsuits that pit decentralized protocols against traditional enforcement frameworks.
What we track daily is the texture of that fight. A Supreme Court ruling can invalidate a tariff regime and ripple into crypto treasury operations; an ethics provision in a draft bill can stall a vote for weeks; a single filing from a Hyperliquid-linked treasury can move a billion dollars in equity. We follow the indictments, the settlements, the amicus briefs, and the procedural maneuvers—not because litigation is flashy, but because in crypto, the courtroom is where the industry's boundaries are drawn.
Readers come here to understand not just what was ruled, but who sued whom, under which statute, and what it means for BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and the stablecoins that increasingly anchor trading flows.
Dismissed without prejudice leaves a refile on the table, but the niche at the center of the suit barely traded: $1,842 of volume against Kalshi's $148B annual book.
Over 1,600 victims handed $397M to a fund that promised crypto liquidity pool returns; the CFTC and SEC filed charges the same day, with Delgado already facing federal wire fraud counts.
The order escalates a federal-state fight over whether sports event contracts are derivatives or gambling, while New York's court challenge remains unresolved.
The FCA's 2027 deadline puts full FSMA authorisation at the centre of UK access decisions for exchanges, custodians and stablecoin firms.
The suit adds to legal pressure already on Kalshi from New York, Washington, and Michigan, and opens a new front where data licensors can act as private enforcers against prediction markets.
Fraud losses, state bans, KYC rules and high fees are pushing the US Bitcoin ATM sector toward a broader business-model rethink.
The case highlights the gap between legal authority and asset recovery: court backing can support tracing, but it cannot guarantee stolen funds become recoverable.
Chainalysis shows DPRK-linked groups launder stolen crypto within ~45 days, meaning most of the $1.46B likely cleared the pipeline before this 17-month-old lawsuit arrived.
The filing puts BitGo's custody scale under public-market scrutiny, while Aug. 7 class-action warnings add legal risk to the IPO.
The ruling clears the way for Michigan regulators to pursue enforcement against Coinbase's planned sports event contracts, dealing a significant legal setback to the exchange's prediction-market…
The dispute adds governance uncertainty to Ondo's role in tokenizing real-world assets, putting leadership continuity in focus.
The decision keeps executive accountability at the center of crypto's post-FTX compliance debate.
RedotPay now serves 8M users and processes $14B in annualized card volume on the back of that alleged diversion.
The zeroed treasury puts future funding in focus, while Shaw's health disclosures underscore the personal cost of sustained work.
Tarsha allegedly drained SAFT proceeds into gambling, crypto speculation, and a Miami condo while staging a fake marketplace to keep investors in the dark.
A daily close below $1.05 would invalidate the support thesis, with thin volume and deferred catalysts leaving $0.95 to $1.00 as the next technical zone.
The case lands before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, signaling federal prosecutors are treating NFT fraud with the same seriousness as the FTX collapse.
A floor speech framing the bill as the choice between US oversight and losing the market to Singapore or the UAE, with a bankruptcy-protection argument aimed at skeptical Democrats.
Four wallets linked to the staffer bought 80% of supply for $10K then dumped for $638K, a textbook insider-extraction pattern that CZ himself called a scam.
The dispute is not about QBTC alone: CME argues that securities exchanges cannot list derivatives on commodities, and a ruling for CME could force every cash-settled crypto index product back through…
The Clarity Act is a U.S. market-structure bill that would draw clearer lines between SEC and CFTC oversight of digital assets, including how tokens are classified and which agency supervises trading platforms. Its passage—or stall—directly affects how exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and DeFi protocols can operate in the United States.
Yes. Supreme Court rulings on agency authority, such as those narrowing SEC and CFTC reach, can invalidate enforcement theories, reshape disclosure rules, and even trigger downstream effects like tariff refunds that touch crypto-adjacent businesses. A single decision can move the legal ground under an entire sector.
The SEC typically pursues cases alleging unregistered securities offerings or exchange activity, while the CFTC focuses on derivatives fraud and market manipulation in commodities, including certain cryptocurrencies. The asset's classification—security versus commodity—usually decides which agency has the lead.
Lawsuits against prediction platforms address whether event-based contracts are gambling, derivatives, or something else entirely, which determines whether they fall under CFTC, state gaming boards, or neither. Outcomes shape which platforms can legally serve U.S. users and how their tokens are treated.
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