Sam Bankman-Fried Appeals Judge’s Decision to Reveal Names of His $250M Bond Backers
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled early last week that the two currently unidentified people who co-signed the bond could be made public. Source
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Gensler appeals for ‘one rule book’ in negotiations with CFTC over crypto regulation
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler is in talks with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) officials on a “memorandum of understanding” on the regulation of digital assets. Together, the agencies can assure market integrity, Gensler told The Financial Times in an interview published Thursday. “I’m talking
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Appeals court rules Do Kwon, Terraform Labs must heed SEC subpoena served in September
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday rejected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s dispute of a subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The federal agency was seeking documents and testimony in connection with its investigation of whether Terra used the Mirror Protocol to
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US Appeals Court Orders SEC to Bring Enforcement Actions to Jury Trials
The SEC alleged in 2013 that George Jarkesy Jr. and his firm, Patriot28 LLC, violated federal securities law by misstating his hedge funds' assets. The case was tried before an administrative law judge, rather than before a civil court. These administrative law judges, or in-house judges, may have violated Jarkesy's
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US Appeals Court Allows Warrantless Search of Blockchain, Exchange Data
A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a case that hinged on whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Bitcoin blockchain records from warrantless search and seizure. DisclosureThe leader in blockchain news, CryptoX is a media outlet that
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Singapore’s Court of Appeals Rules Quoine Exchange in Breach of Contract in Landmark Crypto Case
Singapore's Court of Appeals has ruled against digital currency exchange Quoine on Monday in a landmark case relating to a breach of contract that saw the platform unlawfully reverse seven trades.The Straits Times reports that the case marks the first of its kind in the country’s history regarding a dispute
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