Bitcoin Flash Crash Anniversary: Has Crypto Learned Its $19 Billion Lesson?

Court Slams Crypto Broker, Reopens Door for SEC A New York appeals court just handed the SEC a new weapon in its war on unregistered crypto platforms. Regal Commodities v Tauber ends with a ruling that a broker’s digital-asset contracts may be treated as securities under New York law, giving regulators fresh grounds to pursue…

Ruling on Conway Trust Case Exposes CFTC’s Reach Over Retail Traders The Seventh Circuit just slammed the door on a wealthy family trust trying to wriggle out of CFTC oversight, ruling that even sophisticated investors who trade futures contracts through a trust remain squarely inside the agency’s jurisdiction. The decision is a quiet but important…

Delaware Court Hands Crypto Firm Rare Win Over SEC Tactics A Delaware judge just blocked the SEC from using a state court as a backdoor to extract records from Diamond Fortress Technologies, a crypto startup the agency suspects may have sold unregistered tokens. The ruling matters because it signals courts are growing skeptical of the…

SEC’s Binance Suit Survives Early Motion to Dismiss, Crypto Markets Brace The Securities and Exchange Commission just cleared its first major hurdle in its blockbuster case against Binance: a federal judge in Washington refused to throw out the agency’s sprawling complaint that accuses the world’s largest crypto exchange of illegally offering unregistered securities. The ruling…

COURT SLAPS CFTC — CRYPTO EXEMPTION STILL STANDS The Seventh Circuit just told the CFTC it cannot rewrite federal law to punish a family trust for trading futures the agency had never clearly banned. In one terse sentence, the judges reversed a $150,000 penalty and sent the case back, reminding regulators that only Congress can…

Judges Hand CFTC Fresh Defeat in Crypto Appeal The D.C. Circuit just handed crypto trader Trevor Kitchen a rare win against the CFTC, ruling that the agency overstepped when it punished him for trading activity on a now-defunct exchange. The decision signals that courts are narrowing the CFTC’s reach over decentralized platforms and individual traders,…