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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the next steps in its consideration of the proposed Franklin Templeton and Hashdex spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) bids. The agency has requested written comments on both proposals to approve or deny the appli ...

Coinbase is warning that it has received a subpoena from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to X (formerly Twitter) users who have posted copies of the message. The CFTC is seeking information about the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange.Recipients have spe ...

CbatGPT developer OpenAI announced last week that it had fired CEO Sam Altman due to a loss of confidence by the board — only to see him return to the company after 90% of OpenAI staffers threatened to resign. The firing caused a flurry of excitement from companies offering to match OpenAI ...

Binance and its founder Changpeng"CZ" Zhao has admitted to violating United States laws around money laundering and terror financing — agreeing to pay $4.3 billion in fines The Here's what happened.Feb. 15: Binance was under suspicion since 2018Reports emerged th ...

Crypto markets were subjected to a heavy dose of volatility on Nov. 21 as the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and U.S. Treasury announced a $4.3-billion settlement with Binance and that former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao will plead guilty to o ...

Officials with the United States Department of Justice announced that Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao will plead guilty to one felony charge as part of a settlement over criminal and civil cases with the exchange.In a Nov. 21 press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland ann ...

BNB’s (BNB) price breakout to a 5-month high at $271.90 comes as reporting from the Wall Street Journal highlighted the United States Department of Justice’s plan to announce a $4.3 billion dollar settlement with Binance to end its case. WSJ also reported that Binance founder Changpeng “CZ" Zhao ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.A new DeFi report has highlighted that a significant amount of crypto lost to exploits was due to tradi ...

Zubin Koticha and Alexis Gauba, two founders of the Opyn decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, are stepping down from the project and “leaving crypto,” according to a statement from Koticha posted to social media on November 14. The statement comes approximately two months after Opyn ...

Cboe Digital has announced the launch date of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) margin futures trading – Jan. 11, 2024. The regulated crypto-native exchange and clearinghouse will become the first in the United States to offer both spot and leveraged derivatives trading on a single platform, it ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unveiled its enforcement outcomes for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. It highlights a historic surge in digital asset cases, actions to enforce regulatory obligations for registrants, manipulation and spoofing cases, and groundbreaking court decisions in ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has focused its attention on how companies handle customer assets. Nevertheless, this fresh regulation does not fully encompass the innovative model of the crypto platform LedgerX, leaving key operational aspects subject to regulatory oversight ...

The United States commodities regulator has paid $16 million this year to whistleblowers who gave information leading to successful enforcement actions with a majority of the tips involving crypto.In an Oct. 31 statement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Christy Gol ...

Kain Warwick, the creator of Synthetix (SNX), has expressed his belief that US financial regulators are no longer operating in good faith when it comes to overseeing the cryptocurrency sector. In an interview with Bankless, Warwick mentioned his surprise at the level of "adversarial attacks" on the ...

Chris Ferraro, the interim CEO of Celsius, has implemented a strategy focused on stability and a more "boring" work culture to revive the bankrupt lender. According to Bloomberg, Ferraro initiated regular staff meetings and emphasized sticking to the budget as part of his efforts to make the company ...

The Stellar token experienced a notable 11.5% increase in value between Sept. 2 and Sept. 8, a novelty given that Bitcoin and most altcoins are down for the week. The surge came after Stellar (XLM) tested the $0.113 support level, which marked its lowest point in the past eight weeks. T ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in the DeFi ecosystem was filled with ups and downs, from the United States Commodity Fut ...

The United States regulators have finally taken steps to resolve an enforcement case against the collapsed Mirror Trading International (MTI).The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas has ordered MTI to pay $1.7 billion in restitution to victims for operating a fra ...

Mirror Trading International (MTI) has been found guilty by a U.S. court in a cryptocurrency fraud case involving a Bitcoin scam, resulting in a restitution order of $1.7 billion. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) disclosed that Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited ...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner, Summer K. Mersinger, has expressed concerns over the CFTC's approach to decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. In a public statement issued on September 7, Commissioner Mersinger criticized the focus on enforcement actions rather than engagi ...

Caroline Pham, a commissioner with the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has suggested a limited pilot program in an effort to address crypto regulation.In a pre-recorded message for a Cato Institute event on Sept. 7, Pham said that following public roundtable disc ...

Legal proceedings have been initiated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against individuals and their organization, Fundsz, citing their involvement in a deceptive scheme concerning cryptocurrencies and precious metals trading.Rene Larralde from Melbourne, Florida, Juan Pa ...

Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed the $30,000 resistance on June 21, or 40 days ago, after a notable 19.5% gain in a week. Since then, it has been moving within a range filled with occasional moderate corrections and BTC price trades near $29,300. While these consolidation periods are common in traditional ...

A Tennessee husband and wife are facing charges over “Blessings of God Thru Crypto” — an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme that swindled at least $6 million from over 100 victims in just six months.A July 24 complaint from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CF ...

Crypto exchange Binance and its CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, are planning to file a motion asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit from the United States commodities regulator.In a July 24 filing to an Illinois District Court, multiple Binance entities, Zhao and former Chief Compliance Officer Sa ...

Last week was marked by two new legislative initiatives for the crypto industry in the United States. Senator Jack Reed sponsored a bipartisan bill that would tighten Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations and sanctions requirements for decentralized finance (DeFi). ...

A bill to create a regulatory framework for digital assets has been introduced by Republican members of the Agriculture and Financial Services Committees of the United States House, the result of several months of joint effort by the two committees.The 212-page bill — called the Fin ...

Caroline Pham, one of five commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, believes the path to United States crypto regulatory clarity has been laid out following Ripple’s partial victory.Speaking on Bloomberg TV on July 17, Commissioner Pham said recent big court decisi ...

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced fraud charges against the former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Alex Mashinsky.In a July 13 announcement, the U.S. Justice Department said it had charged Mashinsky wi ...

United States Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand will reintroduce legislation aimed at establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets.The U.S. lawmakers said they would reintroduce the Responsible Financial Innovation Act to the Senate on July 12 after roughl ...

Investigators from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have reportedly determined that bankrupt crypto lender Celsius and its former CEO Alex Mashinsky broke a number of U.S. rules before the company's implosion.According to a July 5 report from Bloomberg, attorneys from the CFTC ...

On June 28th, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York had issued a default judgment that granted a permanent injunction against Michael Ackerman, a resident of Alliance, Ohio.  ...

The United States Federal Reserve Board sees payment stablecoins as a form of money, Chair Jerome Powell said during questioning at the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee’s semi-annual hearing on Fed policy on June 21. Powell’s comments came in response ...

Retail trading platform eToro has halted purchases of Algorand (ALGO), Decentraland (MANA), Polygon (MATIC), and Dash (DASH) for customers in the United States in response to the tokens being labeled as securities in recent SEC lawsuits.The move comes just a few days after competitor ...

A U.S. District Judge has entered a default judgment order that requires Decentralized Organization Ooki DAO to permanently shut down and pay a civil monetary penalty of $643,542. Today the CFTC’s Division of Enforce ...

Messari CEO Ryan Selkis has praised a newly proposed Republican crypto bill, commenting it is a “10x improvement” on all other crypto bills introduced to the United States Congress so far.The “Digital Asset Market Structure” (DAMS) bill, introduced on June 1, propos ...

If there was ever such a thing as an all-star lineup of regulators, the United States House of Representatives Agricultural Committee’s June 6 hearing on digital asset regulation would probably hold the record. The current chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Beh ...

Cboe Digital, a major options exchange in the United States, has had its application to offer margined futures contracts for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) approved by the United States commodities regulator. While Cboe has offered crypto futures contracts since December 2017, margin trades ...

Coinbase, Robinhood, and representatives from the United States commodities regulator are set to testify before Congress on June 6 to discuss a newly proposed crypto bill. The trio will be sharing their firm's, or agency’s views on a proposed bill that could see certain crypto t ...

Lawmakers with the United States House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee have released a draft discussion offering certain crypto assets a pathway to being labeled digital commodities.According to a discussion draft published on June 2, lawmakers proposed “ ...

Christy Goldsmith Romero, a commissioner with the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has commented on a proposal amending the government body’s Risk Management Program with respect to digital assets.In a June 1 notice, the CFTC said it would be opening a propo ...

This idea was expressed by Commissioner Christine Johnson She believes all clearing organizations should be subject to the same rules The CFTC's Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) has issued a formal warning to DCOs regarding the risks of cryptocurrency. More ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued five Americans who promoted what officials said was a fraudulent Icomtech cryptocurrency scheme that caused more than 170 people to lose money. The CFTC filed a civil lawsuit in California Central District Court against D ...

The Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said she is ready to regulate cryptoindustry with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Christy Goldsmith Romero said the regulator is now conducting several major investigations related ...

Ether would then fall under the jurisdiction of both the SEC and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). There is currently no certainty about ETH. CFTC representatives have repeatedly referred to ether as a commodity and stated that it is their agency that should regulate this cryp ...

Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) told Bloomberg that for regulatory purposes. It does not matter whether decentralized exchanges (DEX) operate autonomously or with human participation. Rostin Behnam belie ...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is trying to reduce the number of shares he owns in the American division of the exchange. According to The Information, Zhao has been trying to reduce his ownership stake in Binance.US since last summer, at which time the Securities and Exchang ...

Chief strategy officer of the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance said that the oppression of cryptocurrencies in the U.S. has become "very difficult to do business" UK also causes concern. U.S. actions "have been very confusing over the last six months," Patrick Hill ...

Patrick Hillmann criticizes confusing regulatory rules But believes it won't always stay that way The exchange is banking on British oversight for now Binance chief strategist Patrick Hillmann criticized the US regulatory framework at the Financial Ti ...

It is possible that such pressure from the authorities has a positive effect Counterparties with weak or unreliable structures will leave the market, making room for others The Fed is expected to raise interest rates again today, May 3, after which the market wil ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) imposed a $3.4 billion fine on the CEO of cryptocurrency pyramid scheme Mirror Trading, Cornelius Johannes Steinberg. A statement from the regulator alleges that Cornelius Johannes Stey ...

Bloomberg's investigation has unearthed some interesting information regarding Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, and its VIP clients. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has accused Binance of not registering in the US and violating federal laws governing commodity mark ...

Raoul Pal, the former top executive at Goldman Sachs and current CEO of Real Vision, has predicted that American cryptocurrency companies may have to relocate their headquarters to other parts of the world due to regulatory issues. In an interview with the Rug Radio podcast, Pal drew parallels to ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler recently addressed concerns about the need for additional legislation regarding cryptocurrencies. According to Gensler, the existing securities laws already cover much of the activity that occurs in cryptocurrency markets. He ...

Following a prolonged period of legal disputes, the US government has successfully halted a $1 billion deal between cryptocurrency lender Voyager, which filed for bankruptcy in July 2022, and the Binance.US cryptocurrency exchange. The decision was made by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Reard ...

Following the announcement of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) indictment against Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, users began withdrawing funds from their accounts, with a total of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency being withdrawn. The CFTC alleged that Binance was ...

On March 27, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) made allegations against Binance, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, for not being registered in the United States and for violating federal laws that regulate commodity markets. Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, has swiftly responded to the ...

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler recently emphasized the need for regulation of cryptocurrencies utilizing the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus method, arguing that they should be treated as securities. During a public SEC meeting, Gensler pointed out that PoS-based crypto assets are often promoted on soc ...

The KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange has been sued by the New York Attorney General's Office for failing to register in the state, with the prosecutor referring to ETH, LUNA and UST as securities. The Attorney General, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court, alleging that loca ...

Rostin Behnam, the chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has expressed his belief that Ethereum and stablecoins should fall under the purview of the agency's regulation, as they can be categorized as commodities. Behnam's comments came during a recent Senate meeting on a ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken legal action against Vista Network Technologies, a California-based company, alleging that the firm defrauded investors and embezzled over $7 million worth of cryptocurrencies. According to the complaint filed in the District Court for t ...