Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings has received another subpoena from the SEC. The summons is in relation to its Montana data center, which the regulator claims may have violated securities laws. The company said it was cooperating with the SEC following an initial subpoena on April 10 relating to “transactions with related parties.” “We...Read More
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse revealed Monday that Ripple Labs will spend around $200 million on legal fees to fend off an aggressive SEC lawsuit. But one lawyer and crypto bull explains why the case doesn’t cut the mustard. John Deaton, the founder of Crypto Law and owner of the Deaton Law Firm, recently described the...Read More
Coinbase has called for certain modifications to the proposed rule regarding registered investment advisers’ (RIA) obligations to hold client assets at qualified custodians. Even as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed Coinbase Custody as a “qualified custodian,” the crypto exchange believes the revised RIA rule makes “unwarranted assumptions about custodial practice.” Revisions...Read More
Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of leading American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, believes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is on a lone crusade in the push for regulatory clarity in the country, as the agency’s stance on the matter is different from that of Congress and other federal regulators. During a Monday interview...Read More
A US court has ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission to respond to Coinbase’s complaint about clarity on whether the securities regulator would allow the industry to be regulated using existing frameworks. The latest development emerges amidst escalating tensions between the SEC and Coinbase, with the former ramping up enforcement actions and warnings against crypto...Read More
Brian Armstrong, the chief executive officer of American crypto exchange Coinbase, and the company’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, have responded to a Wells Notice issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) weeks ago in preparation for enforcement action. In a recent YouTube video, the Coinbase executives insisted that the SEC’s notice was...Read More
Major crypto exchange Coinbase has filed a lawsuit against the US SEC and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would compel the regulator to provide an answer to a previous petition by the company. The SEC has adopted a more stringent approach towards the crypto industry in recent times, believing most firms are breaking securities laws without...Read More
Last September, the SEC took the Hydrogen Technology Corporation and its CEO, Michael Ross Kane, to court for the alleged price manipulation of the firm’s proprietary token, HYDRO. Proven Manipulation Of Market Value According to the charges, Kane used services offered by Moonwalkers Trading Ltd, a South African company, without a clear legitimate business purpose...Read More
In a landmark ruling, Hong Kong’s High Court declared crypto as property that can be held in trust. This marks the first time such a decision regarding asset class has been made in the city-state. The ruling, which was handed down in liquidation of a case involving the now-defunct crypto exchange Gatecoin, essentially puts crypto...Read More
The crypto community has left no stone unturned in lambasting the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and, more importantly, its Chief Gary Gensler. The latter’s actions were dissented by members of his own agency. Gensler even received political pushback for his actions. But the SEC boss continued to defend the crackdown on digital assets...Read More
Coinbase is on the brink of legal warfare with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach long-awaited clarity on how federal securities laws apply to the crypto industry, according to CEO Brian Armstrong. Should the regulator situation not improve, the executive said the exchange would consider relocating away from the United States. Will Coinbase...Read More
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday regarding the agency’s enforcement actions against the crypto industry over the past few months. The chair was pressed for answers on how exactly he differentiates between crypto securities and crypto commodities, and recent difficulties for crypto firms to...Read More
The infamous co-founder of Terraform Labs has reportedly lost his bid against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The latter is now allowed to seek records from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) that could shed more details on how the 31-year-old developer managed Luna Foundation Guard and whether he had a hand in...Read More
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s crusade against the crypto-asset industry has prompted political pushback. United States Representative Warren Davidson is the latest to retaliate. The Ohio Representative said he is introducing legislation to remove Gensler as the SEC boss in a bid to “correct a long series of abuses.” SEC’s ‘Unconstitutional Overreach’...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has signaled intent to file another lawsuit against a crypto industry heavyweight – this time being cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. The exchange, which announced the closure of its US operations last month, received a Wells Notice from the SEC at the time claiming it had violated investor protection laws. Why...Read More
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil enforcement action against Rashawn Russell, a former Deutsche Bank investment banker, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The filing alleges that Russell fraudulently solicited retail investors to invest in a digital asset trading fund. He is also being accused...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is furthering its plans to bring crypto exchanges under its regulatory purview – including DeFi exchanges. The agency has announced that it is reopening an old proposal surrounding consumer protection laws to explicitly put digital asset trading within its scope. Regulating DeFi Per a press release from the SEC...Read More
The ongoing legal dispute between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple has taken another turn as the San Francisco-based blockchain company has countered the SEC’s argument regarding its fair notice defense strategy. According to a document filed on April 13, Ripple insisted that the case cited by the SEC did not...Read More
Tron founder Justin Sun has been issued a summons by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection to a recent lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The billionaire will be subject to “default judgment” if he fails to respond to the summons within 21 days, implying that...Read More
The Singaporean cryptocurrency miner – Bitdeer – expects to go public on April 14 after finalizing the SPAC merger with Blue Safari Group Acquisition Corp. The former displayed its intentions to enter Nasdaq in November 2021. However, shareholders of Blue Safari delayed the initiative three times in the past several months due to the harsh...Read More
On April 11, it was reported that Coinbase had been awarded almost $470,000 in damages following a guilty plea in a Manhattan court. The case involved a crypto trader who took tips from his brother who worked at Coinbase Global. According to U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska, Nikhil Wahi was ordered to pay the sum...Read More
XRP is one of the handful of crypto-assets that has outperformed Bitcoin in the latest market-wide rally. Traders are placing their bets on a potential victory for the blockchain firm Ripple’s multi-year legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with a ruling expected in April. In the past two weeks alone, XRP...Read More
Scott Chamberlain – a former US lawyer and co-founder of EvernodeXRPL – thinks the main obstacle that stops XRP’s price from surging is the SEC’s claim that the token classifies as security. On the other hand, Ripple – the entity which issues the coin – has maintained that XRP should be treated as a commodity....Read More
Brad Garlinghouse, the chief executive officer of Ripple Labs, has called on lawmakers in the United States to look into assertive statements made by Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), about the American crypto industry. Garlinghouse’s comments come as Gensler told a House Appropriations Committee in a recent hearing that...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that crypto trading platform Beaxy and its executives ran an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency. The platform ceased operations a day before the SEC lawsuit. Beaxy Fouder Misappropriated Nearly $1M in Investor Funds In a press release on Wednesday (March 29, 2023), the SEC stated...Read More
SEC chair Gary Gensler pulled no punches against crypto in a testimony to the House Financial Services Subcommittee on March 29. The meeting addressed the agency’s fiscal year 2024 budget request, and Gensler acknowledged the high pace of technological change. However, he was quick to attack the digital asset sector yet again with this sweeping...Read More
XRP has been defying the market-wide decline as it continued its impressive recovery for the month. The asset – that is at the center of the Ripple lawsuit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – has surged by nearly 13% over the past day alone. XRP Surges to 10-Month High According to...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has often talked about the purported “dangers” of crypto-assets while highlighting the need to strongly regulate the industry. It wasn’t until the FTX blow-up that the regulator stepped up its aggression. In yet another instance stigmatizing the asset class, the securities watchdog has released a bulletin urging investors...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is prepping for official enforcement action against Coinbase – America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – for selling unregistered securities. The agency issued a Wells Notice against the exchange on Wednesday, following a slew of other investigations and lawsuits launched against Coinbase’s competitors in recent months. Coinbase VS SEC In an...Read More
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly launched an investigation against Terraform Labs and its former employees to explore what led to the collapse of the project’s native token – LUNA – and its algorithmic stablecoin – UST. The US SEC recently accused the entity and its co-founder – Do Kwon – of orchestrating...Read More
