Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product
nor should it—to regulate global, peer-to-peer computer networks. The SEC's aggressive overreach into commodities, software, and these novel technology platforms is unlawful. https://fortune.com/... B...
Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws
How High Can It Soar? PYMNTS.com : SEC Drops Claims Against Ripple Executives Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : SEC Clears Ripple Executives of All Charges in Lawsuit, XRP Price Shoots Benson Toti / Bit...
A US judge says Ripple's XRP sales to sophisticated investors violated securities law but that sales on exchanges were not offers of securities
and this week it got a big one Hassan Shittu / Cryptonews : Coinbase Pauses Staking Services in Several US States Amid SEC Lawsuit Mutuma Maxwell / Cryptopolitan : Binance clients rally behind enigmat...
A US judge says Ripple's XRP sales to sophisticated investors violated securities law but that sales on exchanges were not offers of securities; XRP jumps 70%+
🚀 According to documents filed earlier today … Twitter: Brad Garlinghouse / @bgarlinghouse : We said in Dec 2020 that we were on the right side of the law, and will be on the right side of history. Th...
In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customers' funds
The Bahamas won't like that. https://twitter.com/... Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel : NEW: SBF “selected CC-1” to give a straw donation of “at least $1M to a super PAC” that was “affiliated with pro-LGB...
Kraken agrees to pay $30M and discontinue its crypto-asset staking products to settle SEC allegations that its staking services broke US securities rules
is Coinbase next? Simon Chandler / Cryptonews : Ethereum Price Prediction as $10 Billion Trading Volume Comes In - Can $ETH Reach $2,000 Soon? Tyler Pearson / DL News : SEC hammer comes down on Kraken...
The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato
wherever they are. https://www.reuters.com/... Jameson Lopp / @lopp : Nobody knows what Bitzlato was because criminal activity is (estimated to be) less than 1% of crypto transaction volume. @fbi : An...
John Ray III tells the House that FTX has a “paperless bankruptcy” due to an “unprecedented” lack of documentation, FTX and Alameda were not distinct, and more
the same hearing ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was expected to speak at before his arrest Bennett Tomlin / Protos : New FTX chief describes the firm's collapse in bankruptcy testimony Tweets: @zerohedge : ...