Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
The dispute centers on secret data profiles that can turn spending, travel, and other personal records into police suspicion before a specific crime is identified.
The dispute now spans corporate control, a large ONDO holding and a Hawaiian conservatorship petition that could affect who manages the estate.
A single-vote loss normally ends a bill, but Tillis's motion to reconsider means crypto market structure can come back before the Oct. 2 recess.
Lame-duck session is the long-shot next window. The cost is more quarters of US market-structure uncertainty and the patchwork of agency guidance it leaves in place.
The real signal isn't the $30 number. It's that US regulators now treat XRP as a settled commodity, closing a legal chapter that's hung over the token since the SEC's 2020 suit.
Seven Democratic senators say this week's failed procedural vote was a setback, not the end, as analysts pivot to SEC and CFTC rulemaking to fill the gap.
Police traced users through public blockchain records and OSINT, with 18 of 26 cases already heading to prosecutors in a test of how far prediction-market enforcement can reach onchain.
The suit chases 6,360 BTC lost in the March 2020 Covid crash, but it also reopens the gap between Celsius's delta-neutral marketing and the leveraged longs its own bankruptcy filings describe.
Federal prosecutors say the pair traded perps on confidential listing intel, a test of whether commodities-fraud law reaches decentralized venues where the information source and the trading platform…
The bankruptcy estate's fraud and manipulation claims target the exchange's liquidation engine from the March 2020 crash, landing 11 days before BitMEX shuts down trading on Sept. 23.
The small dollar figure is what makes the case notable: two engineers allegedly risked careers and prosecution for amounts most traders would consider pocket change.
Federal commodities and wire fraud charges put decentralized perp venues squarely inside the same insider-trading framework used on Wall Street, with each defendant facing up to 10 years.
Only S$1.69M of the S$4.906M haul has been recovered, a gap that frames a story bigger than the caning: known crypto holders can be physically coerced into transfers that police struggle to reverse.
The suit lands days after Connecticut hit nine prediction market platforms with cease-and-desist orders, as more than a dozen states press crackdowns on sports event contracts.
The case puts confidential listing data and pre-announcement trading on Hyperliquid perpetual futures under heightened legal scrutiny.
The bill's collapse leaves the US crypto industry without a federal digital-asset framework, prolonging the regulatory limbo that has kept institutional capital on the sidelines.
Warren's opposition raises the political stakes for the Crypto Clarity Act at a pivotal moment, signaling that the bill faces a serious Senate fight before any regulatory framework for digital assets…
The case marks one of the first insider-trading prosecutions tied to a decentralized derivatives platform, raising immediate questions about information barriers at retail brokerages.
With a procedural vote hours away, Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked over an ethics provision targeting Trump's crypto profits, making the bill's first Senate hurdle look increasingly…
The blunt ultimatum signals that years of bipartisan crypto-market-structure negotiations may hinge on a single Senate floor vote, with no clear fallback path if the bill collapses.
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