Regulation

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed its lawsuit with crypto exchange Coinbase on Feb. 27, filings show, ending the case permanently. The SEC agreed to voluntarily dismiss all litigation tied to Coinbase and Coinbase Global with prejudice, which included withdrawing from its initial June 2023 lawsuit and its request for an interlocutory appeal

Rebecca Liao, co-founder and CEO of layer-1 blockchain Saga, believes that digital assets began as a bipartisan issue but gravitated toward the Republican Party in the last election cycle due to the previous administration’s anti-crypto policies. In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright during the ETHDenver Conference, Liao pointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s

Update (Feb. 28, 4:20 am UTC): This article has been updated to further clarify that the Division of Corporation Finance’s statement isn’t legally binding. The US Securities and Exchange Commission says it does not view memecoins as securities but warned any fraudulent tokens could still be subject to enforcement actions by other regulators. The agency’s

The US Securities and Exchange Commission, under former chair Gary Gensler, used settlements to pressure founders of decentralized finance platforms from ever working in the industry again, according to venture capital firm Founders Fund partner Joey Krug. “The thing people don’t really know about is that the government, in many cases, went to founders of

Arizona’s Senate has advanced a Bitcoin reserve bill, bringing it to second place behind Utah in a race between US states to get a crypto investment bill approved.  The Arizona Senate passed the Strategic Digital Assets Reserve bill (SB 1373) on its third reading on Feb. 27 with a vote of 17 for and 12

FTX, FTX Digital Markets and former Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco have reached a settlement agreement in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Trabucco has maintained a low profile since leaving FTX just months before its collapse. Agreeing to save time and money In a motion that will be heard on

Lawyers representing Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of the crypto platform Celsius facing a criminal indictment in the United States, have lost a motion to drop two charges related to commodities fraud and manipulating the price of the Celsius (CEL) token. In a Nov. 8 filing in the US District Court for the Southern District

Reports of a Wall Street lawyer as a potential SEC chair candidate in Trump’s administration have divided the crypto community, with some raising concerns that his traditional finance background may lead to an anti-crypto stance. However, others are more optimistic, speculating that his experience may lead to “thoughtful frameworks” for crypto regulation. Levin Naftalis and

Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, has endorsed the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) as the country evaluates the potential adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Kjetil Watne, project director for Norges Bank’s CBDC project, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that Norway, as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA),

Roman Sterlingov, the founder of Bitcoin Fog, the darknet’s oldest cryptocurrency mixer, has been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison as part of the United States government’s broader crackdown on cryptocurrency mixers. It falls short of prosecutors’ earlier petitions for a 20- to 30-year sentence following Sterlingov’s March conviction by a jury on charges of

A second Trump administration is likely to elevate the crypto sector — both in the United States and overseas — informed market observers told Cointelegraph in the aftermath of the Nov. 5 presidential election. It raises the odds for digital asset market structure legislation, and will probably bring along a stablecoin payment act as well.

Elon Musk appeared to support a call to end the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States after reposting a tweet from Utah Senator Mike Lee — who called for greater executive oversight over monetary policy and abolishing the central bank. Lee argued that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s recent assertion that he would not

The crypto arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) said there will be  “greater flexibility to experiment” as the regulatory landscape for crypto improves in the United States following the Nov. 5 elections. “While we’ll likely have greater flexibility to experiment, we can’t forget that the fundamental regulatory principles applicable to blockchain systems remain

ARK Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood expects that a “changing of the guard” at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission may turbocharge the economy and bring about an influx of innovation and investment in emerging technologies.  “Deregulation, defanging the SEC, FTC, and others, government spending cuts, tax cuts, and a focus on technologically

Alameda Research filed a lawsuit against Aleksandr Ivanov, founder of Waves, as part of its ongoing legal strategy to recover crypto assets. The trading arm of the bankrupt FTX exchange is aiming to recoup at least $90 million of digital assets from Waves, according to a Nov. 11 court filing.  In March 2022, Alameda Research

The Coinbase-backed crypto advocacy group Stand With Crypto has expanded to Australia as part of a broader move to push for regulatory clarity and crypto-friendly policy in the country.  Tom Duff Gordon, vice president of international policy at Coinbase, said the overarching goal of the new offshoot of Stand With Crypto is to bring political

The UK’s antitrust regulator is considering initiating a merger investigation into Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar collaboration with OpenAI. This announcement resulted in a response from Microsoft, declaring that it only plays a non-voting observer role on the board of the ChatGPT maker. The investigation announcement follows the ChatGPT maker’s disclosure that the U.S. tech giant would

Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao must stay in the United States until his February sentencing as he’s unlikely to return to the country if allowed to travel to the United Arab Emirates, a federal judge has ruled. On Dec. 7, Seattle District Court Judge Richard Jones ordered Zhao to stay in the U.S. until his

Officials with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission are reportedly discussing aspects of Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, proposed by asset managers. According to a Dec. 7 Reuters report, industry insiders said the SEC and certain asset managers were discussing “key technical details” related to U.S. exchanges listing shares of a spot Bitcoin

Is a game even a game without bots? Pixels CEO doesn’t think so Some think that bots in games is a sign of the apocalypse, or perhaps just the makers trying to fill up an empty venue to make it look popular. But Pixels founder and CEO Luke Barwikowski says that conversely, if people aren’t