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Pro-soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit from plaintiffs claiming they suffered losses from his promotion of the now-legally embroiled crypto exchange Binance.A Nov. 27 filing to a Florida District Court claimed Ronaldo “promoted, assis ...

Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis and its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG), has struck a deal that could end an ongoing lawsuit to claw back $620 million in repayments from DCG. In a Nov. 28 filing to a New York Bankruptcy Court, Genesis said DCG agreed to pay its outstanding ...

A federal judge has accepted materials from Jump Crypto Holdings in discovery for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) case against Terraform Labs.In a Nov. 28 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Jed Rakoff approved the confident ...

Mercedes-Benz Formula One team and Major League Baseball helped FTX perpetrate fraud through promotional deals with the crypto exchange, according to a group of FTX users in a newlThe plaintiffs, consisting of FTX users, filed twin class-action suits in a Florida District Court on Nov. 27, ...

Former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has opposed the United States government's efforts to block his return to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be with his family while awaiting sentencing following his guilty plea.In a court filing on November 23, Zhao’s lawyers urged the judge to reje ...

The crypto trading days of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are over, and the recently convicted founder has found a new thing to trade while in jail — fish. The Wall Street Journal reported on Nov. 23 that Bankman-Fried recently traded four packets of Mackerel — known in ...

Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell has welcomed the result of the Binance investigation in an "X” (formerly Twitter) post and has highlighted the need for long-term-oriented visionaries and shareholders. Over the last 12 months, leaders of major crypto exchanges such as FTX and Bina ...

United States government prosecutors are trying to stop former Binance boss Changpeng “CZ” Zhao from leaving the country, expressing concern about his potential flight risk.In a Nov. 22 filing to a Seattle federal court, U.S. prosecutors requested a review and overturn of a judge’s decisio ...

FTX founder and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried will stay jailed after failing to convince a United States appellate court that he should be freed while his legal team appeals his conviction.In a Nov. 21 mandate, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Bankman-Fried&rsq ...

Amid ongoing confusion, uncertainty and rumors around the recent departure of Changpeng “CZ” Zhao as Binance CEO, his replacement, the new Binance CEO Richard Teng, took to X (formerly Twitter) to attempt to boost investor confidence.Soon after CZ announced he was stepping down ...

Bankrupt crypto lending platform Genesis Global Capital has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Trust to recover $689 million in preferential transfers, a court filing on Nov. 22 shows.The lawsuit alleges that Gemini made preferential transfers of approximately $689,302, ...

Tether’s bank partner Britannia Financial is reportedly facing a lawsuit over claims it failed to pay the full price of revenue-generating assets allegedly related to a large deposit from Tether.Arbitral International, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, has sued Britannia ...

Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell has lashed out at the Securities and Exchange Commission after it sued his crypto exchange for alleged securities law violations. In a Nov. 21 post to X (formerly Twitter), Powell called the regulator “USA’s top decel” — a term us ...

The Blockchain Association has thrown fresh support behind six plaintiffs suing the United States Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over its sanctions on the crypto mixer Tornado Cash.In a Nov. 20 amicus curiae brief to a U.S. appellate court, the crypto advocacy group argue ...

The company behind Atomic Wallet has asked a United States court to dismiss a class action suit seeking damages from a $100 million hack arguing the claims should’ve been filed in Estonia where it's based.In a Nov. 16 dismissal motion in a Colorado District Court the Estonian firm argued i ...

The creator of the Mutant Ape Planet nonfungible token (NFT) collection — a knock-off of Yuga Labs’ Mutant Ape Yacht Club project — has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a New York federal court.In a Nov. 14 statement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office f ...

A group of Tornado Cash users has filed an appeal in federal court following a ruling upholding the United States Treasury’s decision to add the cryptocurrency mixer to its list of sanctioned entities.In a Nov. 13 filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, lawyers rep ...

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 exploiter behind the $116-million theft of assets from Mango Markets will face trial in April next ...

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Genesis has asked the court to approve its proposed settlement agreement with the imploded crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC).According to a court filing on Nov. 9, Genesis argued that the 3AC debtor should receive an allowed general unsecured claim ...

United States federal prosecutors have managed to put SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony’s bail release order on hold, citing flight risk and his release being a possible “danger to the community.On Nov. 9, New York District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall stayed a Nov. 8 bail release order after p ...

Binance’s arguments used in its motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the United States securities regulator relies on an incorrect legal analysis and have no basis in law, the regulator has argued.In a Nov. 7 court filing the SEC rebuffed Binance’s earlier bid to toss the regulator’s suit sayi ...

Lawyers handling the FTX bankruptcy case are considering offers that could eventually lead to a relaunch of the troubled exchange.At an Oct. 24 hearing of the United States Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware, Kevin Cofsky of Perella Weinberg Partners revealed he is negotiating wi ...

Lawyers representing the $116 million Mango Markets exploiter have convinced a judge to postpone the fraud trial until April 8, 2023.Avraham Eisenberg’s fraud trial was set to commence on Dec. 4 but several circumstances impacted his trial preparations, according to his lawyers, who ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refuted the jury’s conclusion regarding Terraform Labs’ alleged violations and has demanded a summary judgment on all the claims. A court filing from Oct. 27 showed the SEC’s reluctance to accept the jury’s leniency on Do ...

Sam Bankman-Fried is back in his federal prison cell in Brooklyn after being found guilty for all seven charges in his criminal trial. His lawyers however, say the fight isn’t yet over.Bankman-Fried’s attorney Mark Cohen said in a Nov. 2 statement that Bankman-Fried “main ...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of all of the seven charges in his criminal trial by a jury in New York.Bankman-Fried was found guilty of two counts of wire fraud and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy along with one count of securities fraud, one count of commoditi ...

Amir Bruno Elmaani, the 31-year-old founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency scheme Oyster Protocol has been handed the maximum sentence of four years in prison for tax evasion.The United States Attorney’s Office said on Oct. 31 that Elmaani — also known by the alias “Bruno Block” — was s ...

Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried’s defense attorney Mark Cohen heard testimony from the former FTX CEO on his relationship with Caroline Ellison and political donations from the crypto exchange.According to reports from the courtroom on Oct. 27, Bankman-Fried claimed not to have discussed donations ...

The jury overseeing the criminal trial of Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried listened to the former FTX CEO’s testimony for the first time, which involved largely denying knowledge of fraudulent activities at the crypto exchange.According to reports from the New York courtroom on Oct. 27, Bankman-Fri ...

Defense attorneys representing Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried questioned the former FTX CEO in front of a jury for the first time as they prepared to rest their case.According to reports from the New York courtroom on Oct. 27, Bankman-Fried denied defrauding FTX customers during his time leading ...

A United States district court judge has ordered nonfungible token (NFT) artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen to pay Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs a total of $1.57 million in disgorgement and damages, along with legal fees, bringing an end to the long-running “copycat” NFT la ...

Testifying in court but without the jury for his criminal trial present, Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried faced questions from prosecutors, who pressed the former FTX CEO on his alleged involvement in using customer funds for investments through Alameda Research. According to reports from the ...

Google has been facing a wave of litigation recently as the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright and privacy rights become clearer.Amid the ever-intensifying debate, Google has not only defended its AI training practices but also pledged to shield users of i ...

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is looking to demand information on millions of dollars in payments it had previously given to a nonprofit AI safety organization — the Center for AI Safety (CAIS).In an Oct. 25 bankruptcy court filing, the lawyers helming FTX claimed the firm gave $6.5 million ...

​​Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Nifty Newsletter. Keep reading to stay up-to-date with the latest stories on nonfungible tokens. Every Wednesday, the Nifty Newsletter informs and inspires you to dig deeper into the latest NFT trends and insights.In this week’s newsletter ...

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) had a lot going against him well before the start of his criminal trial: the ire of many in the crypto space, suspicion from United States policymakers, and negative attention from some in the media looking for clickbait angles to associate with the former FTX CEO.  ...

Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried will testify as part of his defense case, said his attorney Mark Cohen.In an Oct. 25 telephone conference between SBF’s lawyers, prosecutors, and Judge Lewis Kaplan, Cohen said following the prosecution completing the presentation of its case on Oct. ...

The Singapore High Court has allowed financial investigation firm Intelligent Sanctuary (iSanctuary) to attach nonfungible tokens (NFTs) containing a legal document to cold wallets associated with a hack, according to United Kingdom-based iSanctuary and local press accounts.A court-issued ...

In the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors have requested the judge to inform the jury that the defendant's assertion that he is an effective altruist should not serve as a legitimate defense. Bankman-Fried faces allegations of misappropriating billions of dollars from FTX customers for ...

Blockchain company LBRY Inc. — the creators of the LBRY blockchain — has issued its final message to the crypto, citing “several million dollars” of debts that have now made it impossible for the firm to continue.“This will be our last post,” said the LB ...

Lawyers representing the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced they will seek to dismiss all claims against Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen.In an Oct. 19 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the SEC notified the ...

U.S. surveillance and facial recognition firm Clearview AI has won a court appeal in the United Kingdom after being accused of alleged infractions related to the U.K’s general data protection regulation (GDPR). Originally, the company was fined nearly $10 million for breaches of the U ...

Stéphanie Cabossioras has stepped down from her role as the executive director of Binance France, becoming at least the 10th senior executive to leave Binance this year.In an Oct. 19 post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Binance France resident David Prinçay confirmed Caboss ...

Big Tech player Google is seeking to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit that claims it’s violating the privacy and property rights of millions of internet users by scraping data to train its artificial intelligence models. Google filed the motion on Oct. 17 in a California Distri ...

Lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam “SBF’ Sam Bankman-Fried conducted their cross-examination of Nishad Singh, pressing the former engineering director on events leading to Alameda Research using funds from the crypto exchange.According to reports from the courtroom on Oct. ...

Nonfungible token (NFT) artist Ryder Ripps’ most recent attempt to dismiss the Bored Ape Yacht Club-related lawsuit against him appears to have fallen on skeptical ears.In an Oct. 17 hearing, three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District appeared largely unper ...

Customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and FTX US could see over 90% of assets returned to them by the end of the second quarter of 2024 after a proposed settlement was reached between FTX creditors and debtors.On Oct. 17, FTX debtors said they reached a “major milestone” in ...

Nishad Singh, the former engineering director at now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, has reportedly said he “hopes for no jail time” as part of an agreement with prosecutors.According to reports from the criminal trial of Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried on Oct. 16, Singh revea ...

Last week, the FTX court saga had elements of a TV drama, with Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried’s former business associate and girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, sharing some shocking stories about SBF’s rule over the company. Ellison admitted to fraud during her time as CEO at Alameda under Bankman-Fried’s d ...

A United States judge has approved an order requiring Genesis Global entities to produce certain documents in accordance with a subpoena requested by Terraform Labs.In an Oct. 13 filing in U.S. District Court the Southern District of New York, Judge Jed Rakoff said Genesis would have 5 day ...

Former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh reportedly told a New York courtroom that former CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried had a habit of deciding on purchases through Alameda Research by himself.According to reports from SBF’s criminal trial on Oct. 16, Singh said while C ...

Grayscale’s Bitcoin investment vehicle, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is trading at its lowest discount in nearly two years, as spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to inch toward potential approval in the United States. The latest data from YCharts shows GBTC’s discount to Bitcoin net ...

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has asked a United States judge for long-release Adderall, saying he’s finding it hard to concentrate properly during his criminal trial.In an Oct. 15 letter to New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers asked if Bankman-Fried ...

Caroline Ellison, the former romantic partner of Sam "SBF" Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and former CEO of Alameda Research, claimed in her courtroom testimony that SBF bribed Chinese officials with a $150 million bribe to unfreeze $1 billion in funds locked in local exchanges. These funds, belo ...

The high-profile trial of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried commenced on October 3, attracting significant attention both inside and outside the Manhattan courtroom. Here are some notable observations and details from the first day of the trial: Bankman-Fried's Physical Appearance: ...

Effective altruism, an ethical philosophy that encourages people to make as much money as possible to give it away later for charitable purposes, played a role in the decision-making processes at crypto exchange FTX, leading to what some described as "increasingly risky and ridiculous" actions. Adit ...

The interim judicial managers overseeing the affairs of Hodlnaut, the collapsed cryptocurrency lender, have reportedly turned down a recent buyout offer, primarily due to a substantial decline in the settlement token's value. Hodlnaut administrators have expressed reservations about the acquisition ...

Australian fintech firm Block Earner is charging ahead with plans to launch a crypto-backed loans product, despite staring down an upcoming court date with the financial regulator for allegedly offering financial products without a license. The new crypto loan product allows Australia ...

Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, has pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding the United States Federal Election Commission and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting businessAccording to a Sept. 7 announcement from the U.S. Justice Department, ...

Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, is reportedly planning to plead guilty to criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in illicit activities at the failed cryptocurrency exchange.According to a Sept. 7 Bloomberg report citing “people familiar with the case”, S ...

A former manager at nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea sentenced to three months in prison for insider trading has opted to serve the sentence while his appeal is pending.On Sept. 6, Nathaniel Chastain’s lawyers filed a letter with a New York District Court informing the judge tha ...

Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network has filed a complaint against lending firm EquitiesFirst Holdings in a bid to recoup assets.According to a sealed adversary complaint filed on Sept. 6, Celsius is seeking injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment associated with the "recovery of mo ...

OpenAI and Microsoft have been named as the defendants in yet another class action lawsuit over their alleged use of web scraping techniques to obtain supposedly private data for the use of training ChatGPT and other associated artificial intelligence models. The most recent class act ...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, lost an initial appeal to return to being free on bail prior to his criminal trial.In a Sept. 6 filing in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Clerk of the Court Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe said a circuit judge had deni ...

Roman Storm, the co-founder of controversial cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash arrested in August, has reportedly pleaded not guilty to all charges related to money laundering and violations of United States sanctions.According to an Sept. 6 X thread from Inner City Press, Storm pleaded no ...

A federal judge has ordered that certain bank accounts and properties connected to former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky be frozen following a motion from the United States Justice Department.According to a Sept. 5 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a judge si ...

The United States Attorney's Office has filed an affirmation of the denial of bail to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, claiming that he could attempt witness tampering, and stating that no release conditions would assure the safety of the witnesses. Prosecutors responded to several claims made i ...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a memorandum on Sep. 1 asking the court to deny the prosecutor’s in limine requests. The memorandum, penned by SBF’s lawyer Mark Cohen, calls the requests filed by the United States Departm ...

A United States District Court has allowed a nearly three-year-long class action lawsuit against the creators of HelbizCoin to go ahead, as per a court ruling filed on Sept. 1.The class action suit was first brought against Helbiz, its CEO Salvatore Palella, and its partners in 2020, with ...

Matter Labs co-founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski has proposed an Ethereum court system resembling a hierarchical court system similar to the real world.In a Sept. 2 post on X (Twitter), Gluchowski floated the idea for an “Ethereum Supreme Court” — which would work similar t ...

The co-founders of blockchain gaming platform Gala Games have locked horns in court over two separate lawsuits, one alleging the theft of $130 million worth of Gala (GALA) and the other, alleging corporate waste.On Aug. 31 Gala co-founders Wright Thurston and Eric Schiermeyer, also the fir ...

FTX Debtors have disclosed a series of financial statements revealing any transactions that benefited company executives shortly before the major cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse in November 2022.In a recent court filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of De ...

Lawyers representing Ripple in its lawsuit with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have suggested the regulator hasn’t met the requirements to request an appeal.In a Sept. 1 filing with U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Ripple’s legal team s ...

As the start date of the trial of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) approaches, new court filings indicate that SBF could pay his expert witnesses more than $1000 an hour should they testify on his behalf.SBF may call seven expert witnesses to testify at his fraud trial that is curren ...

There are hopes that the United States could see a new crypto resurgence after several rulings this year have seen court judges “rein in the SEC,” according to a digital asset lawyer from K&L Gates.On Aug. 31, Jeremy McLaughlin, a partner at the global law firm, noted that multiple U.S ...

A United States District Court judge has called Ether (ETH) a commodity in her dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the decentralized exchange Uniswap.In an Aug. 30 dismissal order of the case brought by Uniswap users who claimed they lost money due to scam tokens on the exchange &m ...

Lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, have reportedly not asked for a different trial date in order to prepare, but a federal judge has offered a limited window to do so.According to an Aug. 30 X thread from Inner City Press, Judge Lewis Kaplan said the deadli ...

The lenders of the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Genesis are not satisfied with the latest in-principle settlement agreement with other parties including the Digital Currency Group (DCG).The Ad Hoc Group of Genesis Global Capital (GGC) lenders — represented by lawyers Brian Rosen and Jord ...

Defunct crypto lending firm BlockFi applied to the court a request to transfer the trade-only assets from its users' accounts into stablecoins, so they could be withdrawn by the individuals. The request marks another step toward the return of users' funds, a process that the company began in Augu ...

The legal team representing the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its civil case against Binance is requesting the court grant a motion to allow documents filed under seal.In an Aug. 28 filing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the SEC petitioned a ...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion on Aug. 28 to have all seven of the expert witnesses for Sam Bankman Fried banned from testifying in court. In the motion, the DOJ claims SBF’s proposed experts and their accompanying disclosures “suffer from an array of def ...

Judge Martin Glenn shot down efforts to have a special shareholders class declared in the Celsius Network bankruptcy case in a court document filed on Aug. 25. The judge also declined to settle whether or not the CEL token was a security. In a motion filed on July 25 and heard before the U ...

Vauld, a Singapore-based crypto exchange, that has been ongoing bankruptcy proceedings since August 2022, has said that it received permission from the court to restructure its board. The new top management will lead the company’s bailout process. On Aug. 24, Vauld’s co-founder Darshan Bathija ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has seemingly been doing it tough behind bars, eating only bread with peanut butter to accommodate his vegan diet, while exhausting his supply of prescription medication. In the same hearing where Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to seven fraud-related charges, B ...

A federal judge has sentenced former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain to three months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering related to insider trading on the platform. In an Aug. 22 announcement from the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said ...

United States prosecutors have put forward their proposed instructions to the jury ahead of the October trial for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The lengthy 100-page Aug. 21 filing breaks down how prosecutors would like presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan to instruct the jury in Bankman-Fried’s case ...

Binance has asked a court for a protective order against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing the regulator of undertaking a “fishing expedition” with its discovery requests.In an Aug. 14 court filing, Binance argued while it’s worked in good fai ...

Crypto custodian Prime Trust has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware after facing a shortfall in customer funds.The company said in an Aug.15 filing that it has between 25,000 to 50,000 creditors and estimated liabilities between $100 million to $500 million compared to ...

A judge in the bankruptcy case of defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has denied a motion that would have held co-founder Kyle Davies in contempt of court and imposed sanctions.In an Aug. 11 filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New Yo ...

A federal judge has reportedly revoked former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail following the release of information to New York Times reporters in an alleged attempt to intimidate witnesses.According to reports of individuals present at an Aug. 11 hearing in the United States Distric ...

Crypto app developers hoping for a loosening of Apple’s App Store rules will have to wait longer after a United States Supreme Court held off on granting a request to let apps direct users to payments outside of Apple’s ecosystem.An Aug. 9 decision from Justice Elena Kagan decl ...

The judge overseeing the civil case of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple Labs plans to schedule a jury trial starting in the second quarter of 2024.In an Aug. 9 filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Analisa To ...

Jonelle Still, the director of investigations and intelligence at CipherTrace, a Master Card company, recently submitted a report supporting the defense in the United States v. Roman Sterlingov, a criminal case involving the Bitcoin Fog cryptocurrency mixing service. The company’s inv ...

United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in June.In an Aug. 4 filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lawyers for Coinbase filed a motion for judgment, c ...

One-half of the couple alleged to have laundered billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency has reportedly admitted he was behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack.According to an Aug. 3 CNBC report, Ilya Lichtenstein told a U.S. court he was the individual behind an exploit of cryptocurrency exchan ...

The New York Times has submitted a filing in the criminal case against former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, arguing the court should defend First Amendment rights by allowing certain parties to provide information to members of the media.In an Aug. 2 letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan of the ...

Australia’s financial regulator has sued eToro over its contract for difference (CFD) product, alleging the trading platform used insufficient screening tests when offering the leveraged derivative contracts to retail investors.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (A ...

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried have denied that he attempted to intimidate witnesses in his criminal trial by talking to New York Times reporters and argued there is no reason to jail him.In an Aug. 1 letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers claimed the prosecution’s attempt to ...

A body representing FTX customers said it is “extremely disappointed” by the exchange’s draft bankruptcy exit plan and claims it was ignored by FTX’s restructuring team.In a July 31 court filing, FTX’s Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) said despi ...

A judge in the bankruptcy case for defunct crypto exchange FTX has issued an order allowing Terraform Labs to subpoena information that could be used in its case brought by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.In a July 31 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Distric ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against Richard Schueler, better known in the crypto space as Richard Heart, for alleged unregistered offerings of three tokens. In a July 31 filing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, th ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suffered another setback on July 28 as the D.C. Circuit overturned a ruling by the regulator ordering that SPIKES Index securities should be treated as 'futures' rather than as 'securities futures'. The judge panel called the SEC order "arbitrary ...

Lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as ‘“SBF,” have requested the court seal documents related to his interviews with a New York Times reporter revealing details about his relationship with Caroline Ellison.In a July 27 filing in the United States District Cou ...

The Indian Supreme Court on July 27 reprimanded the Union government for the lack of crypto regulations in the country, according to a report in a local media outlet. The Supreme Court in its observation noted that it is “unfortunate” that the government has yet to release any clear g ...

The latest legal action against Block.one (B1), the creator and original seller of EOS (EOS), could potentially help plaintiffs get higher compensation, according to EOS Network Foundation (ENF) founder and CEO Yves La Rose.On July 25, La Rose officially announced that ENF is preparing a l ...

United States prosecutors are expected to drop a charge against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried that alleged he haconspired to make unlawful campaign contributions.In a July 26 letter to District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the government was informed ...

A federal judge overseeing the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as "SBF," will reportedly consider revoking the former FTX CEO’s $250 million bail based on allegations of intimidation against Caroline Ellison. In a July 26 hearing in United States District Cou ...

The EOS Network Foundation (ENF) is the latest entity to initiate legal action against major investor Block.one (B1) over its alleged failure to honor $1 billion in investment commitments.On July 25, ESF founder and CEO Yves La Rose took to Twitter to announce that the foundation is prepar ...

Professional basketball player Jimmy Butler has asked to be dismissed from a class-action lawsuit targeting celebrities involved in the alleged promotion of unregistered securities by Binance, saying tweets he appeared in did not promote the named securities.In a July 24 filing, Butler&rsq ...

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 ...

Celsius was one of the top lenders in the crypto ecosystem during the bull market in 2021. At its peak, it served 1.7 million customers and managed $25 billion in assets.All that came crashing down in June 2022 amid major flaws in the company’s working structure.The bear marke ...

The latest development in the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase comes as a date is confirmed for the two parties to voice their initial arguments. On July 24, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal,&nbs ...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to a gag order preventing him from making comments to third parties that may interfere with his trial — but argues other potential witnesses should be gagged as well, including current FTX CEO John Ray.The gag order against Sam Bankman-Fried was ...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has condemned the United States securities regulator over recent comments from its lawyers that hint at a possible appeal to its case against Ripple.In a July 23 tweet, Garlinghouse slammed the regulator for its "regulation by enforcement" approach, arguing it ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suggested that it may appeal a recent ruling on the Ripple Labs lawsuit, which deemed XRP to not be a security when sold to retail investors. The SEC argues that the ruling goes against “fundamental securities laws principles” suc ...

Gabriel Bankman-Fried, the brother of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, had a plan to survive a global catastrophe using funds from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange.According to a July 20 filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Gabriel planned to ...

FTX has sued former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and other former key executives from the now-bankrupt crypto exchange to recover more than $1 billion in allegedly misappropriated funds. A July 20 complaint filed in a United States Bankruptcy Court named former Alameda Research CEO Caro ...

On July 13, 2023, United States District Court Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple’s XRP (XRP) token should not be considered a security when sold on retail digital asset exchanges.Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, told Cointelegraph that last week’s ruling mak ...

In the latest episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman discusses Ripple’s partial victory against the Securities and Exchange Commission and its impact on the crypto market. Although people traded based on emotion after headlines popped out, the next day, as i ...

The Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada has granted a petition from the state’s Financial Institutions Division (NFID) placing crypto custodian Prime Trust into receivership, pending a hearing to show cause. In a July 14 filing, the Nevada court ordered the appointment of a ...

Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, said she remains bullish over Coinbase in light of Ripple’s partial victory over the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13. While Wood noted the ruling wasn’t in outright favor of Ripple, she lauded the outcome as ...

Stu Alderoty, chief legal officer of Ripple Labs, has reportedly said United States-based banks may turn to XRP for cross-border transactions following a recent court ruling.According to a July 17 CNBC report, Alderoty expressed confidence that U.S. banks and financial institutions could b ...

A former federal prosecutor turned chief executive of a crypto-focused venture capital fund says she would be “surprised” if the United States securities regulator lodges an immediate appeal against the Ripple case ruling, as it currently benefits from lack of “legal clarity.&rd ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has argued in court that approving a firm's S-1 application to go public, does not represent a “blessing” from the agency, nor provide a verification that the business is regulatory compliant. ...

In every major litigation, there comes a moment when you realize it’s time to settle. A ruling doesn’t go your way, a juror gives your legal team the side eye, the judge makes it clear it’s time for a settlement conference. After Judge Analisa Torres’ decision in SEC v. Ri ...

Zac Prince, the CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi, allegedly disregarded recommendations from the company’s risk management team over lending assets to Alameda Research. According to a July 14 filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of N ...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried wants to be able to have his “close friends” visit him at his parent's home without them being subject to security checks. In a July 13 letter to New York District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, lawyers representing Bankman-Fried requested the judge ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is taking action against Celsius Network, one of the cryptocurrency lending firms that collapsed in 2022.The securities regulator filed a lawsuit against Celsius’ former CEO, Alex Mashinsky, on July 13, charging the executive and Celsius ...

Grayscale Investments has reached an agreement with New York-based investment firm Fir Tree Capital Management over its Bitcoin Trust.According to a July 11 announcement from Fir Tree, Grayscale agreed to provide additional documentation related to its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) after Fir Tree f ...

Crypto investment firm Paradigm’s special counsel Rodrigo Seira has slammed the United States securities regulator for “wrongfully” pursuing crypto exchange Bittrex in an attempt to police secondary crypto markets.In a July 11 Twitter thread, Seira added his thoughts afte ...

Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong, also known as Daniel Shin, has reportedly had his first hearing for charges related to allegedly illicit profits from the sale of Terra (LUNA).According to a July 10 report from News1 Korea, a trial preparation hearing for Shin and seven ...

The investigative work of independent blockchain sleuth ZachXBT has been cited in a class action lawsuit in Canada against Boneheads, an alleged $3.1 million nonfungible token rug pull.Tweeting on July 7, ZachXBT highlighted that lawsuit as he reiterated accusations that the Boneheads tea ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has petitioned a Florida court to confirm a judgment in its favor through arbitration after the platform mistakenly deposited $50,000 into a user’s account.According to the July 6 court filing, Crypto.com “erroneously deposited” $50,000 into James Deutero ...

Lawyers representing billionaire Elon Musk and Tesla asked a United States district court judge to toss out a motion to have them sanctioned over alleged conflicts of interest in a $258 billion lawsuit alleging Musk participated in an illegal racketeering scheme related to the Dogecoin (DOGE) cry ...

When the leaders of the American Revolution signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, they had no guarantee of victory. The battle for independence was underway, and their prospects were uncertain. Despite occasional victories, these audacious freedom fighters were grossly outnumber ...

The co-founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) have pledged to donate a portion of earnings from their newest crypto venture to creditors who lost money in the fund’s 2022 collapse.In a July 3 Twitter Space, 3AC co-founder Kyle Davies said it would be &ldqu ...

Imagine your daily commute to work, uninterrupted by traffic lights or stop signs, allowing you to sail smoothly. Suddenly, a new red stop sign disrupts your route, turning a main intersection into a four-way stop overnight. That evening, a letter from local law enforcement shocks you with a heft ...

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is one step closer to relaunching as an entirely new exchange.According to a June 28 report from The Wall Street Journal, FTX restructuring chief John Ray said the company had “begun the process of soliciting interested parties to the reboot of the FTX.co ...

FTX has filed a lawsuit against a former regulatory and compliance executive at the exchange, alleging he made a series of payments attempting to prevent staff from blowing the whistle about the exchange’s issues.On June 27, FTX filed a lawsuit against Daniel Friedberg who held multiple ro ...

Following the filing of a cease and desist order, Nevada’s Financial Institutions Division has again moved against crypto custodian Prime Trust by petitioning for the appointment of a receiver.In a June 26 filing, the regulator petitioned the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada ...

Former FTX executives allegedly splurged millions on funding niche projects completely unrelated to crypto or Web3, including a uniquely named $1.8 million “Pineapple house.”A June 26 report from FTX restructuring chief and CEO John Ray laid out the uses of the allegedly misapp ...

Creditors of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius have alleged that crypto market maker, Wintermute, assisted Celsius executives in manipulating the price of CEL (CEL) through improper market trading.According to a June 23 Bloomberg report, which cited a recent court filing, Ce ...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, has been denied his request to obtain documents from a Silicon Valley law firm, Fenwick & West LLP, as part of his defense strategy in his ongoing federal fraud case, Bloomberg reported. Bankman-Fried had hoped to use thes documents to support his cla ...

The United States Supreme Court decided in favor of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on June 23 in a partisan opinion that will halt court proceedings against the company in two California cases. Plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuits alleged Coinbase failed to provide proper relief ...

Lawyers representing United States-based crypto exchange Binance.US, global exchange Binance Holdings Limited and Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ” Zhao have filed a motion alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) misled the public in statements issued over an ongoing securities ...

Fees charged by the lawyers and the restructuring team working on the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX have topped $200 million in just over seven months, but an independent auditor argues it makes sense, given the mammoth task.On June 20 the court-appointed fee examiner, Katherine Stadler, fi ...

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon told a Montenegro court that he wasn’t aware the passport he was traveling with was allegedly forged and instead pinned the blame on a Chinese-named agency.In a June 17 report from South Korean news outlet Segye Ilbo, Kwon told the Montenegrin Basic Cou ...

The criminal case against the crypto user allegedly behind a multimillion-dollar exploit of decentralized exchange Mango Markets will be moving forward in the United States, with a trial scheduled for Dec. 4. According to court records filed on June 14, Judge Richard Berman of U.S. Di ...

The Hinman documents were finally unsealed and made publicly available on June 12 after a lengthy back and forth between Ripple and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but what exactly do they reveal?The documents are extensive, and while they can be found in public ...

Criminal charges against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried have been split, with the former CEO now facing two separate trials for his alleged mismanagement of the crypto exchange.Bankman-Fried is facing a total of 13 charges relating to fraud, fraud conspiracy and bribery. A trial for all ...

The final quarter of 2020 saw the launch of a precedent-setting lawsuit by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission against Ripple Labs, CEO Bradley Garlinghouse and co-founder Christian A. Larsen. The allegation: raising north of $1 billion in 2013 through the unregistered sale of a ...

Cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital is preparing to reopen its app and allow customers to finally withdraw their funds — nearly one year after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.Voyager's bankruptcy plan administrator Paul Hage said in a June 14 court filing that around June 15 ...

Ripple’s chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty has called for an investigation into the motivations that led to former SEC official William Hinman delivering his now-infamous speech in 2018.Alderoty’s demand for an investigation came as part of a June 13 Twitter thread following ...

Binance.US and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to work on an arrangement that will allow the exchange to avoid freezing all of its assets.On June 14, Bloomberg reported that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson referred the two organizations to a mag ...

The United States securities regulator has asked for four more months to provide a response to Coinbase’s request for crypto regulatory clarity.In a June 13 letter submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it needs an ad ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and BAM Trading (Binance’s U.S. arm) recently filed a request for a consent order that would ease some of the restrictions from a previous SEC request to freeze the company’s assets. The proposed new consent order would offer ...

Binance.US has asked the court to deny the securities regulator’s proposed temporary restraining order against its assets ahead of a June 13 hearing, claiming that the move would “effectively end” its business.In a June 12 filing, Binance.US slammed the SEC’s emerge ...

Algorithmic and high-frequency trading firm Jump Trading is seeking to have the class action lawsuit against the firm moved from Illinois to a Northern district court in California, arguing that it would significantly speed up legal proceedings. The lawsuit was initially filed on May 9 by ...

With just one day until the Hinman documents are due to be unsealed, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse suggests the documents will be “well worth the wait."In a June 12 Twitter reply to a question raised by crypto YouTuber Jungle Inc, Garlinghouse said that while he did not want to & ...

The Delaware Court of Chancery in the United States has granted a motion from crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital largely dismissing digital asset custodian BitGo’s case following a dropped acquisition of the firm in 2022.According to court documents filed on June 9, Vice Chancello ...

The list of around nine million FTX customers is “extraordinarily valuable” and could harm the crypto exchange’s sale value if released, a member of the FTX restructuring team has argued.In a court hearing released June 8, Kevin Cofsky, a partner at the investment bank Pa ...

The judges presiding over Coinbase and Binance’s lawsuits will likely watch the results of the SEC v Ripple case closely, crypto lawyers told Cointelegraph.Ripple has been in a legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission since December 2020, with the regula ...

Terraform Labs co-founder and CEO Do Kwon may be subject to multiple sentences in the United States and South Korea, according to a senior South Korean prosecutor heading the investigation.It is understood that Kwon is currently serving house bail in Montenegro after having his bail propos ...

Celebrity defendants Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather are back on the hook for a class action lawsuit that alleges their improper promotion of the now-defunct crypto token EthereumMax (EMAX).While the class-action suit was brought against the pair in January 2022 for allegedly promoting ...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried claims prosecutors have missed discovery deadlines for key pieces of evidence required in the defense of a raft of fraud charges.On June 5, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers told United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in a letter that the government had not tur ...

The Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund have become the latest industry advocates to file their support of Coin Center’s lawsuit against the United States Treasury over its “unlawful” sanctions against Tornado Cash.On June 2, the two cryptocurrency industry ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to return $550,000 in donations it received from crypto exchange FTX prior to its collapse in November.The New York-based museum confirmed its intention to repay the funds to FTX debtors in a filing to the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on ...

Just a month after bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX was seeking $4 billion from the also bankrupt crypto lender Genesis, it is now contesting a claim that it is entitled to nothing.According to a June 2 court filing in a New York Bankruptcy Court, the FTX debtors have raised an objecti ...

They were accused that the split into 2 "subsidiaries" was a fraud The merger will speed up the return of investors' funds Bankrupt crypto company Celsius agrees to merge its units in the UK and US. It would be their answer to court allegations that the firms sha ...

BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending company, has obtained another extension from the court to delay the submission of its final reorganization plan until mid-May. The delay was granted to allow BlockFi more time to finalize its restructuring plan as it considers selling off its assets and is acti ...