Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
At $100,000 BTC, the traced Intersango pool reaches $550M and a forgotten 5 BTC balance becomes a $500K claim. The constraint is evidence, not blockchain forensics.
The $94.66M award itself is the bigger signal: ICE is betting that AI-driven blockchain forensics is now core Homeland Security infrastructure, with only two credible vendors at the scale it needs.
Kalshi's exclusivity blocks rival prediction markets from advertising at the venue and across ESPN broadcasts, an unusual concession that lands amid the platform's federal preemption fight.
A 49% Gulf sovereign block in a sitting US president's crypto venture invites CFIUS, ethics, and conflict-of-interest reviews the sector rarely sees, with opacity around the bank-holding structure…
Five of six wallets sent coins to non-exchange addresses, and Galaxy data shows 2026 dormant-BTC movement is on pace for under half of last year. Less supply pressure, not more.
An opposing April ruling involving New Jersey leaves federal courts divided, raising the prospect that the Supreme Court will decide who can regulate event contracts.
The Seoul court's ruling is the first of four unjust enrichment suits Bithumb filed to claw back proceeds from its February 620,000 BTC mishap, setting precedent for how exchanges can recover from…
Nearly half of US states are suing Kalshi as courts split 50-50, putting prediction markets' fate in the Supreme Court's hands.
The two unresolved charges carry a maximum 40-year sentence, and the new runway gives Storm's lawyers room to press the Cox precedent while spotlighting Chainalysis' 2022 role as a Tornado Cash…
The 280-year statutory ceiling and a victim count that nearly doubled from the SEC's 2021 civil case show how AI-branded Ponzi schemes are now drawing the full weight of federal criminal courts.
Four hundred investors were sold 15-30% returns and FDIC insurance that never existed. The verdict gives federal prosecutors a clean template for the next AI-mining scheme that walks in the door.
The Autotrader pitch was the con, and with sentencing set for December 8 at 20 years max per count, the verdict becomes a wire-fraud benchmark for retail crypto-fund allocators.
The threat was contained with no user funds exploited, but deposits, withdrawals and MANTRA transactions remain frozen pending testing for a possible same-day restart.
The case cuts to a foundational stablecoin question: can an issuer unilaterally freeze user funds, and if so, under what conditions?
The dispute pits state gambling laws against federal oversight, while proposed consumer protections could shape whether event contracts expand across the U.S.
With three industry groups now aligned against the levy, the suit escalates from a state-budget line item into a precedent fight over digital asset taxation.
A few transactions are setting the sector's headline totals, so half-year comparisons need to be read through the lens of deal concentration.
Beyond the HBO breach, prosecutors allege that 8,000 professor accounts were compromised and attackers stole at least 31.5 TB of academic data and intellectual property.
The millions spent are the easy number. The structural cost is 80% of Ripple's hiring leaving the country while the case dragged on.
The year-long Fiji escape is the unusual part; the bigger read is the textbook Ponzi structure (25% guaranteed monthly returns, new-investor cash funding old) and the FBI's fast international close.
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