CFTC Victor Crushes Crypto Commodity Dreams in Trust Fight The Seventh Circuit just slammed the door on a family’s bid to label its digital asset investments as commodities, upholding the CFTC’s iron grip on oversight. In a stinging reversal, the court ruled that the Conway Family Trust’s unregistered trading platform peddled futures-like contracts on Bitcoin…
Trump-Backed Crypto Venture Greenlights Governance Token Trading World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-backed DeFi platform, just voted overwhelmingly to make its $WLFI governance token tradable on exchanges. With over 99% approval from 5 billion tokens, this move could unlock massive liquidity and propel the project into the spotlight. For crypto investors, it’s a high-stakes bet…
Kalshi Crushes CFTC: Election Bets Legalized Nationwide The D.C. Circuit Court just slammed the brakes on the CFTC’s ban against KalshiEX’s election contract betting, denying the agency’s emergency stay request on October 2. This blockbuster ruling lets Americans wager on congressional control from the House floor, turbocharging prediction markets just weeks before the 2024 vote….
Bloomberg strategist doubles down on $10,000 bitcoin call but peers say it would take a nuclear war to get there A Bloomberg strategist has reiterated a long-running view that bitcoin could fall to $10,000, sticking with the call even as other market watchers argue such a move would require an extreme, system-wide shock. The renewed…
SEC’s ‘Crypto Mom’ Peirce Warns: Tokenized Assets Remain Securities SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” just dropped a reality check: tokenized securities are still securities under U.S. law, no matter the blockchain hype. Echoing ex-chair Gary Gensler’s tough stance, she’s urging crypto players to sit down with the SEC before launching anything. This…
SEC Slaps Down in Coinbase Ruling: Courts Reject “Crypto = Security” Overreach In a stinging rebuke to the SEC, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 17, 2025, vacated parts of a lower court order forcing Coinbase to delist dozens of altcoins, ruling the agency overstepped by labeling them unregistered securities without fair notice….
SEC Crushed: Crypto Not Securities in NY Commodities Clash New York’s Appellate Division just gutted the SEC’s grip on crypto trading, ruling that Regal Commodities’ digital asset platform isn’t an unregistered securities exchange. In Regal Commodities v. Tauber, the court sided with the exchange operator, declaring Bitcoin and Ether trades as commodities—not investments—slamming the door…
SEC Strikes Out: Fifth Circuit Slaps Down Overreach on Crypto Tokens. In a stinging rebuke to the SEC, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on November 26, 2024, that the agency lacks authority to regulate certain digital tokens as securities without clear congressional backing. The decision in case 23-50669 reverses a lower court and…
XRP Eyes New Highs as Ripple Hits US Senate Web3 Summit Ripple is stepping into the spotlight at next week’s “From Wall Street to Web3” US Senate summit, fueling fresh optimism for XRP. Charts are flashing bullish signals toward all-time highs, with traders betting on regulatory tailwinds. This high-profile appearance could ignite the altcoin’s rally…
SEC Panel Eyes Crypto Case Consolidation in Chicago A federal judicial panel chaired by Judge Sarah S. Vance is weighing a push to merge three crypto-related lawsuits into one courtroom in Chicago’s Northern District of Illinois. Anthony Motto, lead plaintiff in the anchor case Greene, argues for centralization to streamline battles likely targeting exchanges or…
SEC’s ‘Crypto Mom’ Peirce Warns: Tokenized Assets Remain Securities SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” just dropped a reality check: tokenized securities are still securities under U.S. law, no matter the blockchain hype. Echoing ex-chair Gary Gensler’s tough stance, she’s urging crypto players to sit down with the SEC before launching anything. This…
CFTC Fights SEC in Kraft Foods Derivatives Battle The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just slammed the brakes on the CFTC’s aggressive push to seize a massive derivatives dispute from the SEC, denying a writ of mandamus against Kraft Foods and Mondelēz. This rare intervention highlights deepening turf wars between regulators over who polices complex…
Bloomberg strategist doubles down on $10,000 bitcoin call but peers say it would take a nuclear war to get there A Bloomberg strategist has reiterated a long-running bearish view on bitcoin, again arguing the asset could fall as low as $10,000. The stance drew pushback from other market commentators, some of whom said such a…
Chinese Creditor Slams FTX’s Bid to Block Payouts in Restricted Nations A Chinese creditor has fired back at FTX’s latest bankruptcy maneuver, challenging the exchange’s motion to halt repayments to users in countries like China, North Korea, and Russia. This clash threatens to drag out the already messy FTX collapse, testing the limits of global…
CFTC Clobbers Monex in $10M Forex Scam Win The Ninth Circuit just handed the CFTC a major victory, upholding a $10 million penalty against Monex for illegally peddling forex trading to retail suckers without registration. This ruling turbocharges the agency’s grip on off-exchange forex markets, signaling that crypto traders and DeFi platforms dabbling in similar…
CFTC Nails Crypto Trader in Landmark Manipulation Win The Ninth Circuit just upheld a massive victory for the CFTC against James Devlin Crombie, a crypto trader accused of spoofing the Bitfinex exchange in 2011. Crombie flooded orders to fake demand for Bitcoin, then dumped to profit—classic manipulation that the court ruled falls squarely under CFTC…
SEC Crushes Binance in Landmark Ruling on Crypto Oversight The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia just handed the SEC a massive win against Binance, ruling that the world’s largest crypto exchange operated illegally as an unregistered securities platform. This decision rejects Binance’s motion to dismiss, affirming that tokens like BNB, BUSD, and…
Trump Jr. Backs Thumzup: Social Media Upstart Turns to Bitcoin Treasury Play Donald Trump Jr. has thrown his weight behind Thumzup Media Corporation, a social media marketing platform that’s pivoting hard into Bitcoin as its core treasury asset. This move signals growing elite buy-in to BTC as a corporate hedge against inflation and fiat weakness….
SEC Seizes 24 Crypto Accounts in IRS Money Laundering Probe A federal court in Washington D.C. greenlit the U.S. government’s forfeiture of 24 cryptocurrency accounts tied to an IRS and Department of Justice probe into money laundering and tax evasion. The ruling hands Uncle Sam a clean win, stripping owners of seized Bitcoin and other…
GMX V1 Crushed by $40M Exploit: Trading Halted, Tokens Frozen Decentralized perpetuals exchange GMX has slammed the brakes on its V1 platform after a brutal $40 million exploit, halting all trading and token minting to stem the bleeding. This marks yet another gut punch to crypto in 2025, where hackers are feasting on DeFi vulnerabilities…
