Web3 investment firm CoinFund announced a white paper outlining a proposed way forward for digital asset regulation in the United States. CoinGeek speaks to the paper’s author about the state of regulation in the industry.
The Joint Financial Services-Agriculture Subcommittee had a hearing discussing the future of digital asset regulation in the U.S. and, in particular, what roles should the SEC and the CFTC have.
South African national Steynberg was charged with the offense of operating a multi-level marketing scheme, which stole over 29,421 BTC from thousands of investors.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Rashawn Russell with wire fraud, while the CFTC filed a civil enforcement action against him for fraudulently soliciting investors to invest in a digital asset trading fund.
The National Futures Association, with 100 members dealing in Bitcoin, says it can now punish members who commit misconduct related to digital assets.
Binance has a well-deserved reputation of undermining local regulators by acting outside the rule of law when doing so improves the company’s bottom line.
Receipts are piling up against Binance, while boss Changpeng Zhao is in a race against time to flip the table before his empire implodes and see himself end up like FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried.
The CFTC says the exchange "violated core provisions" of the CEA and CFTC regulations governing commodities trading by offering unregistered derivatives products to U.S. customers.
Christopher Giancarlo, who served as the 13th chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has called for accelerated digital dollar efforts but warned against using it to surveil users or levy fines.
As per the legal opinion of both the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Attorney General, Ethereum, and most other tokens sold via ICO, are unregistered securities.
Nishad Singh entered guilty pleas to six criminal charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, money laundering, and violate campaign finance laws.
Liberty begins with personal responsibility leading to a culture of responsibility—have we seen this in the blockchain space? No, not by a long mile, Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
