Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
If untouched Bitcoin is treated as abandoned after five years, every cold wallet becomes a legal liability, and the Institute's amicus makes that exact argument to the court.
The suit targets senior engineers who moved from Apple's Foundation Models unit to OpenAI, claiming they carried model-training data and chip design files with them.
The BitClub takedown once read as one of the DOJ's loudest crypto-fraud wins; if the ringleader's counts are dropped after eight years, the message that sends to pending crypto-fraud dockets is…
The Jump ruling lets Terraform pull in external evidence to fight the SEC's collapse narrative. The barred creditors show the bankruptcy estate is closing ranks around an earlier settlement track.
A July 17 hearing puts the market-structure bill back on the calendar, but the SEC writing rules in parallel suggests Washington expects CLARITY to survive Senate math, not stall in it.
Polymarket's $3.3B World Cup run proved the demand, and a stack of ETF filings would route that volume through regulated rails rather than offshore crypto books.
The judge who set the XRP precedent is now drawing a line on prediction-market expansion, signalling that state gambling statutes still apply where federal CFTC oversight stops.
The plaintiffs ask courts to declare long-dormant Bitcoin abandoned, but the wallets that actually transacted while the case was pending expose the limits of an 'inactivity equals abandonment' theory…
The departure ends one of the most-watched tenures in US crypto legal, with Grewal shifting to an advisory role through month-end as Coinbase's regulatory docket keeps growing.
The exit closes the chapter Coinbase's legal team wrote fighting the SEC under Gary Gensler; the timing tells the market the company believes its biggest regulatory battles are behind it.
A federal-event-contract license is not a state-arena pass: a $1B damages claim lets tribal and state plaintiffs drag any venue back into state court, even after Kalshi's CFTC win.
The clarification signals the administration intends to fill the Democratic seats, but timing and nominees remain the open question for crypto policy clarity.
The decision gives the President more power over independent regulators mid-rulemaking, and a former agency official is already calling the fallout unfortunate.
The Wisconsin criminal complaint is unusual: it targets a stablecoin issuer's refusal to act on a fraud recovery request, not a stablecoin depeg or reserve shortfall.
The wrapper promises accumulation, but its own SEC filing warns it may have to sell HYPE into the stress moments, with monthly core-contributor unlocks roughly 44% of the facility's full buying power.
The complaint alleges Circle failed to comply with a court order to recover stolen assets, the first known criminal action against a major USDC issuer for refusing a freeze request.
The supply cut buys time, not relief: nearly 5 billion WLD remain unlocked over the coming years, and a German regulator just ordered biometric data wiped within a month.
The Oregon Democrat is lobbying Senate leaders to graft Banking Committee-passed blockchain developer safe-harbor language onto the broader market-structure bill before any floor vote.
If the memo holds, US prosecutors lose their most informative eye inside the world's largest crypto exchange, and an already-cordial regulatory relationship gets colder at exactly the wrong moment…
The alert suggests the monitor overseeing Binance's $4.3B plea deal is over, which would let the exchange stop sharing documents without breaching the agreement.
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