Tags: Law and Order

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm faces decades in prison if prosecutors retry deadlocked charges in a high-profile case.

The SEC and Ripple have formally ended their appeals, finalizing a 2023 court ruling that split XRP sales into securities and non-securities.

The White House said that it "already ended" Operation Chokepoint 2.0, which it maintained had treated the digital assets industry unfairly.

Paxos worked with Binance to issue Binance USD, but didn‘t do sufficient due diligence, New York‘s top financial regulator said.

Victims are lured in by phishing websites offering heavily discounted products, and then urged to make purchases using the Tether stablecoin.

The panel could not reach a verdict on money laundering or sanctions evasion charges.

Chirag Tomar, convicted in the U.S. for a $20M crypto scam using fake Coinbase websites, ran a phishing network targeting global victims.

Federal agents seized plans to skirt export laws using false documents and shipments to Singapore and Malaysia.

Fischer’s claim that liquid staking could trigger a Lehman-style collapse sparked ire from crypto leaders, who say the risks are overstated.

The move comes after the agency exempted self-custodial and custodial staking in May.

Lancashire Police seized stolen funds that criminals had converted to Bitcoin—but British law prevents victims from being overpaid.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order targeting alleged debanking of crypto firms and conservative groups.

The CFTC is weighing a plan to let U.S. futures exchanges host spot crypto trading, but some warn it could trigger legal and regulatory risks.

Key phrasing in the GENIUS Act permits payment platforms and crypto exchanges to continue to offer yield to holders, despite bans on issuers doing the same.

Hong Kong’s new stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, tightening rules as the city vies for a global crypto edge.

The SEC also plans to create new registration pathways for DeFi platforms and allow certain crypto investment contracts to trade on unregulated exchanges.

Former OpenSea product manager Nathanial Chastain was convicted in 2023 of wire fraud and money laundering for profiting off inside information on NFT listings.

Police said hackers duped the employee into installing malware on his office computer using a fake freelance job offer.

Cboe BZX filed to list a Solana ETF on Wednesday, advancing a second U.S. staking-enabled fund even as the SEC delays on similar products.

U.S. prosecutors argued that Tornado Cash’s emphasis on privacy wasn’t about protecting ordinary users, but about making “bags of money.”

Cboe and NYSE Arca have filed proposals that would allow exchanges to list crypto ETFs in a similar way to existing standards in TradFi.

The two crypto developers changed their pleas this week.

A 22-year-old cybercriminal is going to prison after making nearly $800K by hijacking prominent X accounts to share NFT-swiping scams.

The proposal was one recommendation featured in a 168-page digital assets report published by the Trump administration on Wednesday.