Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
The lawsuit puts a rare institutional spotlight on regulatory unpredictability in US derivatives markets, with CME arguing the CFTC shifted its stance without notice or justification.
A decade after the most consequential smart-contract breach in crypto history, the Ethereum ecosystem has channelled the lesson into a $130 million security fund — a direct institutional response to…
The Aztec Foundation says the breached product is a four-year-old immutable stage 2 rollup with no ties to current network contracts or the AZTEC token — but a related validation flaw just drained…
The $1.8B scheme ran 2020-2022 on fake 0.5%-1% daily mining returns — and lands one week after the FBI reported record $11.4B in crypto fraud losses for 2025.
Three simultaneous suits, naming Coinbase and Robinhood affiliates, frame a direct challenge to CFTC federal preemption — and land a day after a Michigan court cleared the way for state-level…
The fight isn't over perpetuals themselves — it's over whether a regulated venue like CME gets first crack at the benchmark, with Duffy arguing Dodd-Frank makes the venue question settled law.
ECB opposition behind the scenes turned a routine licensing review into a political veto — and now leaves Binance with one remaining MiCA seat, in France, to keep serving the entire bloc.
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
A $10M-backed perps DEX with $1.2M left in TVL is calling it quits — yet another protocol casualty in a cycle where even recognized teams can't turn traction into revenue.
A $120 million prediction market on a permanent Iran peace deal is under dispute after Trump comments complicated how resolvers should interpret the outcome.
Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) are publicly pressing President Trump against pardoning former…
Australia's High Court ruled unanimously 7-0 on Wednesday that Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd, operating as Block Earner, needed…
Sam Bankman-Fried told a fellow inmate he would "start my own coin" after leaving prison, and that "everyone will flock…
FTX's bankruptcy estate sold its 5% stake in AI coding startup Cursor for roughly $200,000 in 2023, part of the asset…
Binance is set to lose permission to serve EU clients within weeks after its MiCA license application in Greece is…
The defense lands as Selig runs the CFTC as its sole commissioner and defends a sport-betting rule against state lawsuits — with a potential crypto mandate waiting in the wings.
India's Directorate of Enforcement (ED) filed a prosecution complaint against Chirag Tomar and seven other individuals…
Susie Violet Ward, director of Bitcoin Policy UK and a self-described Strategy shareholder, said a recent video by…
Charles Hoskinson used a Saturday AMA to offer what may be the most specific public explanation yet for the fate of…
The July 4 deadline for passing the CLARITY Act into law has slipped, with negotiations over ethics provisions and…
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