Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
A closed-door Thursday meeting with Trump, Lummis, Moreno and the White House crypto team is the last real chance to clear the stablecoin bill before ethics language sinks it.
The President's sit-down with Senate Republicans failed to break the impasse: the bill's still-stuck definitions of digital asset securities keep it parked in committee past the 2025 window.
The case tests the CFTC's authority over prediction-market insider trading as political-event contracts draw billions in volume and a celebrity-adjacent defendant.
Even if no law is broken, the optics of a sitting president with active equity positions endorsing those same names on a public platform raise conflict-of-interest and market-manipulation questions…
The X-leaked number was a unit conversion error, not a flow signal. DTCC plumbing entries list fund structures but carry no allocation data, and the SEC S-1 queue is still where the real launch dates…
The eight-shell structure and bank-to-exchange routing alleged in Wiener’s indictment match the textbook signaling pattern federal prosecutors have been flagging in crypto fraud cases since 2023.
A unanimous Senate resolution signals bipartisan resolve to keep the FTX founder's 25-year sentence intact, closing off a presidential pardon before any future appeal.
Lummis is pushing to move the digital asset market structure bill straight to the President's desk, but ethics provisions targeting presidential crypto holdings have put the brakes on floor time.
The bipartisan nonbinding resolution signals that even the chamber's most pro-crypto voices are drawing a hard line at the $8B fraud, and reframes who counts as a clemency candidate after Trump…
The attack fits a wider pattern: South Korea's retail-trading forums have turned violent before, and the gap between social-media financial advice and personal accountability keeps narrowing.
The transfer drops the seized BTC into Coinbase Prime custody, and the pending court ruling on Bitfinex creditors could still claw back roughly 30% of the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
A sit-down between the White House and a bipartisan Senate group turns the long-stalled market-structure bill into an active 2026 legislative priority for crypto.
Maclear's Vibroedil default settled at full principal recovery via Italian pledge law, the first real-world stress test of whether an on-chain credit claim is still enforceable off-chain.
The market structure bill's hardest remaining fight is the ethics provision aimed at Trump's crypto ties, and only a few Senate weeks remain before the August recess.
The consortium stablecoin's reserve-yield sharing model strikes at the core of Circle's economics, and arrives weeks before Coinbase's revenue-sharing renewal could reset the terms.
Tether had put $800M into Heka's arbitrage strategy and waived minting fees, a relationship that only became public when Circle's arbitration filing unsealed it in Boston federal court.
The complaint lands as Meta continues a multi-thousand-person workforce reduction and pushes AI deeper into HR and performance evaluation workflows.
The CFTC is invoking exclusive federal authority over event contracts to prevent a Michigan court from unwinding executed trades, a precedent that would reach every state-level prediction-market case.
The order lands as the CFTC is already suing Connecticut, Illinois, and New York over the same jurisdictional question, putting Kalshi at the center of a federal preemption fight.
Three Senate Democrats hardened their opposition on Tuesday, putting the ethics provision on senior officials at the center of whether any market-structure bill can reach 60 votes.
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