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Singapore High Court rules crypto personal property, compares it to fiat money

Cryptocurrency is deemed property capable of being held on trust, Judge Philip Jeyaretnam of the High Court of Singapore decided in a ruling on July 25. The Judge said he didn’t see any difference between crypto, fiat money or shells, as long as all those objects, physical or not, share

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Coinbase vs SEC court dates confirmed for initial case arguments

The latest development in the lawsuit of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) versus cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase comes as a date is confirmed for the two parties to voice their initial arguments. On July 24, Coinbase’s chief legal officer Paul Grewal tweeted the news of New York judge Katherine

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XRP court ruling marks milestone, but new crypto law could take years

The recent court ruling that Ripple’s XRP (XRP) token is not considered a security when sold on digital asset exchanges has sparked a wave of positive sentiment across the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, told Cointelegraph that he believes the most important part of this ruling is

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XRP-SEC Court Ruling Fails to Clarify Regulatory Environment for Wider Crypto Industry: Bank of America

Bank of America says it continues to differentiate between the trading of blockchain-native crypto tokens, for which regulations are still being established, and the trading of tokenized traditional assets including exchange-traded-funds (ETFs), repos and gold, for which the “rules are already established and trading volumes have already reached trillions of

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s brother planned to buy island and prep for apocalypse: court filing

Gabriel Bankman-Fried, the brother of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, had a plan to survive a global catastrophe using funds from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange.According to a July 20 filing with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Gabriel planned to purchase the island nation of Nauru

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Nevada court approves regulator’s petition to place Prime Trust into receivership, pending hearing

The Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada has granted a petition from the state’s Financial Institutions Division (NFID) placing crypto custodian Prime Trust into receivership, pending a hearing to show cause. In a July 14 filing, the Nevada court ordered the appointment of a receiver for Prime Trust following a June

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Ripple (XRP) Court Ruling Unlikely to Impact Celsius Wind-Up, Crypto Lender’s Counsel Says

The XRP ruling could impact creditor repayments for holdings of Celsius’ token CEL, given U.S. bankruptcy rules which apply a mandatory downgrade to customer claims relating to securities. The estate has previously judged the token’s worth at $0.20, but it could also fall to zero, Koenig said, while some creditors

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