The asset manager is considering expanding tokenized securities to the Ethereum mainnet and other EVMs, its digital assets head told Cointelegraph.
Bitcoin layer 2s could be collectively worth around $7.6 trillion, the report added.
Christen Ager-Hansen told Cointelegraph that he warned his former colleagues, including Craig Wright and financial backer Calvin Ayre, against going to court.
On July 22, two of the five individuals who allegedly stole $8.4 million from investors between 2017 and 2021 by promoting Forcount pleaded guilty.
The European Commission and Elon Musk’s social media site, X, look set to battle over alleged transparency violations.
The European Commission and Elon Musk’s social media site, X, look set to battle over alleged transparency violations.
The issuers must still await final regulatory signoff on S-1 filings before listing the funds.
Genesis Trading transferred over 12,600 Bitcoin to Coinbase over the past 30 days, two months after reaching a settlement with the state of New York.
The UK Law Commission scoping paper suggested legal reforms for DAOs, a review of the Companies Act and international cooperation on AML and tax frameworks.
The stablecoin issuer received an SEC Wells notice in February 2023 warning of a potential lawsuit over Binance USD as an unregistered security.
The partial dismissal indicates complainants failed to demonstrate that GitHub reproduces human-created code.
Bulgaria’s Acting Prosecutor General said Ruja Ignatova would be charged in absentia, while the FBI listed a $5 million reward for the OneCoin founder.
A federal judge in Florida recognized the HYDRO token as an investment contract qualifying as a security under SEC guidelines.
In their motion to dismiss, Kraken’s lawyers disputed the legal theory that the exchange was an “ecosystem” for crypto asset securities.
The cryptocurrency exchange announced plans to exit the Canadian market in 2023 but may still face enforcement action from local regulators.
Tornado Cash’s founders and developers are in the legal crosshairs, but the crypto community argues merely writing code shouldn’t be a crime.
In April 2022, a judge sentenced Virgil Griffith to 63 months in prison for violating U.S. sanctions on North Korea.
Gemini Trust said that affected Earn users could expect “100% of the assets owed to them” within seven days.
MicroStrategy upsizes its convertible senior notes offering to $700 million, earmarking proceeds for Bitcoin purchases and corporate purposes.
Digital asset regulation and policy were at the center of discussion for many panels at the crypto event when news of Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions broke.
The former FTX CEO spent roughly a week at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, with many speculating authorities planned to send him to a California prison.
Since his arrest in March 2023, Do Kwon has been in Montenegro. He could be extradited to either his native South Korea or the United States to face fraud charges.
The former FTX CEO has been housed in a cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since a judge revoked his bail in August 2023.
The attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against Genesis in October 2023 for allegedly defrauding investors through the Gemini Earn program.
The conviction of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev reinforces a very broad interpretation of criminal liability, which has major repercussions for blockchain.
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers reported Bybit has been blacklisted since May 2022 “for non-compliance with current French regulations.”
Nicolas Bonta, Bitfarms co-founder and chair, will take over as interim president and CEO after Geoffrey Morphy filed a lawsuit for $27 million in damages against the mining firm.
The CFTC warned of another cycle of enforcement actions against crypto firms as investor interest rises.
FINTRAC reported that Binance facilitated 5,902 separate transactions of $10,000 or more in crypto from June 2021 to July 2023 and failed to register with the regulator.
U.S. authorities indicted former Digitex CEO Adam Todd in February for failure to implement and maintain an effective Anti-Money Laundering program at the exchange.