Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
Two of the earliest tokenization platforms are heading to federal court in Delaware just as BlackRock, JPMorgan and the NYSE ramp their own onchain builds, with tZERO signalling it has six more firms…
The complaint alleges board members sold shares into a market where outside investors were locked up, then personally bought 2.298M Class B shares at $4.97 and signed preferential advisory deals.
The filing turns a private cease-and-desist into a public courtroom fight over who owns the plumbing of on-chain securities, a call that could shape how rivals build out RWA infrastructure.
Tokenized equities are landing in DeFi collateral vaults faster than the legal mechanics can catch up, and the SEC's crypto lead just drew a line: the wrapper doesn't change what the asset is.
The DFPI deadline covers every offering, issuance, redemption, and custody activity Ripple runs in the state.
Section 604 writes FinCEN's 2019 guidance into statute, but the 'non-controlling' test leaves every operator with a kill switch, multisig, or upgrade key still exposed to the same theory that…
The unusual suit argues Kalshi's Bitcoin perps are "swaps" under Dodd-Frank, not futures — and that the CFTC rubber-stamped the listing without doing the legal analysis.
The plaintiffs' case rests on 39,069 addresses being abandoned — but 52 of those very addresses have moved 34,335 BTC since filing, including coins attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto.
By settling on the S&P 500 rather than sports or elections, Schwab sidesteps the state-vs-CFTC fight now engulfing Kalshi and Polymarket — and brings $13T in client assets into prediction-style…
Wang's exit follows Stańczak's — the foundation has now lost both co-executive directors and at least eight senior staff in five months, leaving one board member to steer a nonprofit under mounting…
The lawsuit argues perps should be swaps, not futures — and the legal read is that CME has both the procedural and substantive advantage heading into a likely injunction fight.
A regulator-favored derivatives giant is challenging whether a CFTC-regulated event-contract venue can quietly become a leveraged Bitcoin venue — the case will set the boundary between event…
The joint rulemaking lands days after CME sued the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi's perpetual futures — meaning the comment period will shape the very product line the lawsuit targets.
The pitch to bankers comes six weeks after a $1B Series F at a $22B valuation, with annualized revenue doubling since March and May monthly volume hitting $16.8B — even as state-level lawsuits pile…
The Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act targets Kalshi and Polymarket-style political bets, with fines near $2,000 or 10% of the wager — but a Senate companion and a DOJ arrest signal the fight is…
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
The suit would hinge on Dodd-Frank's swap-vs-future line — and with CME stepping in, the fight stops being a CFTC-vs-predictiom-market story and becomes a battle over who gets to define the next…
A deep-red state joining the state-level fight puts Kentucky's GOP attorney general on the opposite side of a Trump-aligned CFTC — and the contradiction is now the story.
The registration and trading ban closes out the agency's case but adds nothing to the 12-year prison sentence — the structural read is that a top-tier US regulator now has a permanent fraud record on…
The denial closes off a circulating narrative that the US agreed to a large financial transfer to Iran, with no such deal on record.
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