Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
The complaint alleges BitMEX operated a hidden desk that traded against users and froze servers during volatility to trigger liquidations, with plaintiffs seeking return of roughly 623 BTC.
The collapse lands as Fidelity argues AI demand is reshaping miner economics, giving hash-power infrastructure a more valuable use than block rewards.
The 622.66 BTC ($40.7M) plaintiffs cite is the headline number, but the allegations of an internal desk trading on frozen-server data and collateral siphoned to an insurance fund cut at trust in…
With $173M in prepetition obligations and a customer-withdrawal freeze from 2022 still unresolved, the stalking-horse bid opens a court-supervised auction that will set the recovery benchmark for…
Missing the pre-recess deadline is a significant blow to 2026 passage odds, though the Senate floor process could still begin before lawmakers scatter for the midterms.
The dollar number is small, but the settlement forces the SEC to hand over two documents it had been withholding, and Coinbase is now using the same playbook to chase every text, email, and chat…
The dollar number is small; the precedent is bigger. After two years of litigation the SEC admitted its phones were wiped, and Coinbase walked away with the document trail it spent years demanding.
The warning lands as Bitwise, Coinbase and Kraken scale onchain yield products that increasingly rely on human managers rather than immutable code, the exact pivot that draws securities scrutiny.
Seven Democrats with crypto-legislation experience publicly reject the GOP's revised ethics package, leaving Republicans well short of the 60 votes they need and exposing a fight over Trump's…
The fight is over DOJ-only ethics enforcement, not the bill's core market-structure framework. A floor vote without bipartisan buy-in signals the crypto sector's first major legislative test is being…
The platform argues the ANJ order is disproportionate because it covers informational visitors too, but France joins Ukraine, Argentina and Spain in ordering ISP-level blocks against prediction…
Eleven years after Arthur Hayes helped popularize the 100x leverage perpetual swap, the exchange that defined an era of crypto derivatives is closing for good, with assets left past the deadline…
The 11-year-old derivatives pioneer exits as offshore perp venues lose their edge and regulated competitors absorb the flow.
The compromise bans federal officials, including the president, from issuing or sponsoring digital assets, but enforcement runs through the DOJ, which is exactly the part Democrats say makes the…
The red line is state attorneys general suing federal officials over crypto ties; Democrats say the draft still falls short on Trump exposure, and a floor vote is unsettled before the August 7 recess.
Seven Democrats likely needed to clear 60 votes tell Republicans the draft still needs work on ethics, illicit finance and consumer protection, just days before the August recess.
The text bans the president, members of Congress and federal judges from issuing or sponsoring digital assets for profit, but a DOJ-enforcement fight with Democrats is the last hurdle before a 15-day…
The MOVE token hit an all-time low after Coinbase delisting, and the bankruptcy filing now shows the project holds under $1M in assets despite raising $38M just last year.
The $150K fee award to History Associates is a footnote; the real concession is the SEC's agreement to review how it preserves staff text messages.
BitClub's $722M scheme is the headline figure, but a pre-trial dismissal leaves victims still waiting on a court-approved recovery formula.
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