Regulation

The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office has reportedly confiscated roughly $160 million worth of assets from eight people connected to the collapse of Terraform Labs, including co-founder Daniel Shin. According to an April 3 report from South Korean news outlet KBS, authorities seized roughly 210 billion won — $160 million at the time of publication

Last week brought troubling news for the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused the company and its CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, of trading violations. According to the lawsuit filed by the CFTC, Binance has conducted transactions for U.S. customers without proper registration since at least 2019.  According to

Italy’s ban on conversational artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT sparked major controversy among the tech industry as well as in the country. The Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini expressed criticism that the block over privacy concerns seemed excessive.  On Friday, following concerns raised by the national data agency about possible privacy violations and failure to

The organization following the launch of the Central African Republic’s Sango Coin has announced a delay of its listing “just for a few weeks,” citing legal and regulatory obstacles.  In a March 31 message on its Telegram channel, the Sango Project said the government of the Central African Republic, or CAR, had made “significant progress”

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which suffered a bank run after revealing a hole in its finances over the sale of part of its inflation-hit bond portfolio, led to a depegging event for major stablecoins in the crypto sector, leaving many to wonder whether it was a simple stress test or a sign

Just five days after Binance and its CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao got sued by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for alleged trading violations, a new $1 billion lawsuit was filed against the crypto exchange, CZ, and three crypto influencers for promoting unregistered securities. On March 31, the Moscowitz Law Firm and Boies

The U.S. government’s frosty approach to cryptocurrency regulation could ultimately see the industry’s “center of gravity” shift to Hong Kong, says Ambre Soubiran, the CEO of Paris-based institutional crypto market data provider Kaiko. The U.S. has been at the forefront of the crypto sector for quite some time, however, with the government seemingly adopting a

Regulatory trouble is nothing new for Binance, and on many occasions, in the past, it has managed to overcome or bypass such roadblocks and eventually work with regulators.  However, when it comes to the United States, the exchange has found itself in the cross-hairs of multiple agencies. A number of United States financial regulators have

A local court in South Korea denied the prosecutor’s request to issue an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong, also known as Daniel Shin. This was the second attempt made by South Korean authorities to reign in Shin following the recent arrest of Do Kwon — Terra’s other co-founder. On March 23, Kwon

The dramatic collapse of crypto exchange FTX last November is not moving Bermuda away from receiving crypto companies, according to the head of the British island territory’s government during an interview with Bloomberg News.  “The future of finance is digital,” said the premier and finance minister Edward David Burt, who believes there are still considerable

The United States government plans to liquidate more than 41,000 Bitcoin seized as part of the case against Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. A March 31 filing with U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the case against James Zhong said U.S. government authorities had begun liquidating roughly 51,352 Bitcoin (BTC)

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an attempt to halt the release of powerful AI systems to consumers. The complaint centered around OpenAI’s recently released large language model, GPT-4, which the CAIDP describes as “biased, deceptive, and a risk

The United States Senator for Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren is making her “anti-crypto” agenda one of the centerpieces of her re-election campaign, despite polls suggesting the majority of Americans think crypto is a key innovation for the future. In a March 30 Tweet, Warren suggested she was fighting to put “government on the side of working

Do Kwon, currently in custody in Montenegro and potentially awaiting extradition to the United States or South Korea, will reportedly face harsh conditions in the country’s penal system. According to a March 29 Protos report, an unnamed criminal defense lawyer said conditions at Montenegro’s jails and prisons “haven’t changed” from those described in a 2020

Regulated stablecoins are currently in the spotlight of policymakers as a panel of professionals in the digital regulatory space unpacks their predictions on the use of regulated stablecoins in the future at the World of Web (WOW) Summit in Hong Kong.  In the panel titled “Digital Assets: Policies & the Road Ahead,” the group discussed

Sam Bankman Fried’s new petition to have his legal expenses reimbursed has been met with fierce objection from lawyers representing the crypto exchange and its creditors committee. As per previous reporting by Cointelegraph, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers had filed a motion on March 15 seeking to have his court costs covered by directors and officers (D&O) insurance

Beaxy suspended operations on March 28 “due to the uncertain regulatory environment surrounding our business,” according to the cryptocurrency exchange’s blog. The suspension came a day before the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it was charging Beaxy and its executives with failing to register as a national securities exchange, broker and clearing

A new bill has been introduced to the Australian Parliament proposing regulations for providing cryptocurrency services in the country. Senator Andrew Bragg submitted a private senators’ bill titled Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill 2023 to “protect consumers and promote investors,” which includes regulatory recommendations for stablecoins, licensing of exchanges and custody requirements. Proposed regulatory changes

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is once again smearing the cryptocurrency industry and attempting to make Americans more dependent on big banks.  Warren vowed in February to reintroduce the Digital Assets Anti-Money Laundering Act, a proposal that went nowhere when she first introduced it with Kansas Senator Roger Marshall in December 2022. While the proposal’s stated

This week on The Market Report, our beloved host, Joe Hall, and insightful expert Sam Bourgi, unfortunately, could not make it, but don’t worry because Marcel Pechman is here to breakdown everything that is happening between the United States Commodities Futures and Trading Commission, Binance and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Breaking: Binance and CZ sued by CFTC