NFT marketplace OpenSea says the US SEC has ended an investigation into the company, after OpenSea received a Wells Notice in August 2024
Nonfungible-token marketplace OpenSea said that it was informed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the regulator has ended an investigation …
Do Kwon's criminal fraud trial in the US is scheduled for January 2026; prosecutors expect challenges accessing encrypted devices and translating communications
After the collapse of the crypto firm Terraform Labs, Inner City Press covered … Naga Avan-Nomayo / crypto.news : Do Kwon's fraud trial scheduled for 2026 Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing : Do Kwon's ...
The US charges three UK nationals with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a ~$3M NFT rug pull scam known as Evolved Apes in 2021
Evolved apes was a $3 million NFT rug pull that lured investors in with the promise of developing a video game.
US Copyright Office and USPTO study: existing IP laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright infringement concerns and changes are not currently necessary
- The intellectual property authorities in the U.S. noted in an NFT study that the current laws are sufficient to address infringement concerns.
Logan Paul says he is “personally committing” $2.3M+ to offer refunds for CryptoZoo, the allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021
Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021.
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money
a web series featuring Ashton Kutcher and Jane Fonda—are unregistered securities Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph : Stoner Cats NFTs ‘fan crowdfunding’ not securities: SEC's Peirce, Uyeda Sead-Fadilpasic...
A US judge sentences ex-OpenSea product head Nate Chastain to three months in prison for making ~$50K via insider trades, in the first NFT insider trading case
Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company's home page.
A look at the art world's deal-with-the-devil approach to the NFT market, after allegations that FTX bought the $24.4M trove of 107 Bored Apes NFTs at Sotheby's
Nate Freeman / Vanity Fair : Tweets: @ryder_ripps , @vanityfair , and @agreenberg Tweets: Ryder Ripps / @ryder_ripps : “Ultimately, it alleges that the rise of the planet of the Bored Apes was nothin...
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul finally responds, acknowledging some involved were “bad actors”
Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut …
FTX US tells users to close out positions as it may halt trading in days, hours after SBF said FTX US is “100% liquid”; some Tron-linked tokens can be withdrawn
eg. Bahamas account creates an NFT, the stuck user buys the NFT with their full balance. https://twitter.com/... @statelayer : lots of sizable withdraws hapenning in the last hrs (this is USDT) , peop...