Regulator Sues Top Crypto Exchange Binance, CEO for ‘Willful Evasion’ March 28, 2023 By Tom Wilson and Angus Berwick The world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao were sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures...
Supreme Court Divided Over Coinbase Arbitration Dispute March 22, 2023 By Andrew Chung U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared divided over a bid by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. to halt customer...
Crypto-Focused Bank Silvergate Plans to Wind Down Following Blow From FTX March 9, 2023 By Hannah Lang Crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital Corp. said on Wednesday it planned to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate after it was...
G20 Watchdog to Tackle ‘Vulnerabilities’ in Decentralized Finance After FTX Collapse February 16, 2023 By Huw Jones The G20’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Thursday it would take steps to tackle “vulnerabilities” and data gaps in...
Britain’s Finance Ministry Issues Draft Rules to Regulate Cryptoassets February 2, 2023 By Huw Jones and Elizabeth Howcroft Britain’s finance ministry laid out its first set of rules to regulate cryptoassets on Wednesday, saying ongoing turbulence in the...
FTX Reports $415M in Hacked Crypto, Bankman-Fried Says FTX U.S. Is Solvent January 18, 2023 By Dietrich Knauth Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said in a report to creditors on Tuesday that about $415 million in cryptocurrency had been...
FTX Customers File Class Action to Lay Claim to Dwindling Assets December 28, 2022 By Tom Hals and Dietrich Knauth FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried...
Court Weighs Novel Issue of Crypto Ownership in Bankruptcy December 8, 2022 By Tom Hals and Dietrich Knauth A U.S. judge this week is considering for the first time the question of who owns bitcoin and other tokens...
Viewpoint: It’s A Wonderful Life’s Lessons Ring True in BlockFi Bankruptcy December 6, 2022 By Jonathan Reid Reich We are heading into the holiday season. It’s a Wonderful Life will be on television. And cryptocurrency bankruptcies will be...
DOJ Watchdog Seeks Independent Review of FTX Bankruptcy December 2, 2022 By Dietrich Knauth The U.S. Department of Justice’s bankruptcy watchdog on Thursday called for an independent investigation into the collapse of crypto exchange...