SEC Wins 34-Year Bilzerian Asset Freeze — Crypto Markets Feel the Ripple The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia just kept alive a 34-year-old asset freeze against Paul Bilzerian and his family, rejecting their latest attempt to claw back property tied to a 1989 securities-fraud judgment. The ruling matters because it signals that…
SEC LOSES KEY FIFTH CIRCUIT RULING ON STAKING A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit just handed the SEC a stinging defeat in its enforcement campaign against staking programs, holding that certain staking rewards do not automatically qualify as unregistered securities offerings. The ruling narrows the Commission’s ability to treat staking yields as investment contracts…
Aave Labs has acquired the team and technology behind Avon, adding fixed-rate and floating-rate lending protocols and an onchain order book to its development efforts. The transaction places Avon’s engineers and business development staff within Aave Labs as the company works on fixed-rate borrowing capabilities for its wider ecosystem. As of November 6, Aave Labs…
Bitcoin developer proposes ‘landmines’ to make quantum thieves risk losing their own BTC Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields has floated a proposal for so-called “quantum landmines,” a concept designed to deter future theft from bitcoin wallets that could one day be vulnerable to quantum computers. Fields, who works on Bitcoin’s software at MIT’s Digital Currency…
Competition in crypto is increasingly taking place between jurisdictions rather than only between exchanges, blockchains or individual companies. The central question is which regulatory model can offer businesses the most workable combination of legal clarity, market access and room to operate. Bitcoin.com News framed the contest as one for capital, technology, talent and tax revenue,…
Court Delivers Blow to SEC’s Token Crackdown Federal judges just narrowed the SEC’s power to call every digital asset a security, handing crypto traders and exchanges a clear legal win that could reshape enforcement strategy for years. The case began when the SEC sued a major exchange for listing tokens it claimed were unregistered securities….
Leap, a Solana Labs company, has opened early access to an iOS trading app that places tokenized stocks, exchange-traded funds, metals, currencies and cryptocurrencies in one onchain interface. The beta reflects a push to make tokenized markets easier to access from a mobile device, while leaving important questions around eligibility, ownership rights and trading conditions…
COURT SLAMS CFTC FOR OVERREACH IN KITCHEN CASE The D.C. Circuit just clipped the CFTC’s wings, ruling that the agency exceeded its authority when it tried to punish trader Trevor Kitchen for alleged spoofing in crypto futures. In a sharp rebuke delivered June 5, the court held that the CFTC cannot bootstrap its enforcement power…
Token projects preparing for exchange listings may face material contractual risks when they hand inventory to market makers, particularly where token loans are paired with options that can alter the economics of a recall. An opinion editorial published by Bitcoin.com News as of November 8, 2026, argues that projects should negotiate measurable liquidity duties, return…
Trump Admin Crypto Seizure Shakes Stablecoin Trust A U.S. federal judge just signed off on the government’s seizure of roughly $40,000 in Tether tokens that were allegedly used to launder Trump-Vance inauguration funds stolen in a Nigerian phishing scheme. The ruling matters because it treats stablecoins exactly like cash or bank accounts when they’re tied…
Payward, the financial infrastructure platform behind Kraken, said an affiliated investment fund and its clients acquired an undisclosed amount of AAVE tokens through secondary-market purchases. The transaction gives a Kraken-connected company and its clients exposure to one of decentralized finance’s best-known lending networks, while leaving the size and economics of the purchase undisclosed. The announcement…
Standard Chartered and SBI back crypto insurer Soter as funding reaches $23.5 million Standard Chartered’s venture arm, SC Ventures, and Japan’s SBI Group have invested in cryptocurrency insurer Soter Insure, joining the company’s Series B second close as it expands coverage for digital-asset risks. Soter said total backing now stands at $23.5 million in cash,…
Revolut is preparing to invest at least $1 billion across five Latin American markets over several years, placing Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Argentina at the center of its next expansion phase. The British financial firm has also set an ambitious customer-acquisition benchmark for the region, although reporting differs on whether that target applies to…
DOJ Creates ‘Super Intelligence’ Task Force to Guard Against AI Abuse The U.S. Department of Justice has created a new Super Intelligence Task Force aimed at countering the misuse of advanced artificial intelligence, the department said in a Nov. 5 press release. Attorney General Todd Blanche established the group—formally named the DOJ Super Intelligence Task…
Solana’s October Upgrade Review Puts 200ms Slots and $5B in Tokenized Assets in Focus Solana has published a consolidated summary of what changed on its network in October, tying recent protocol work to updated ecosystem activity metrics. In a November 6 ecosystem roundup, the Solana Foundation said two major performance-related changes went live last month:…
Court Blocks Texas Crypto-Mining Raid, Signals New Limits on State Regulators Texas regulators just lost a round in their battle to shut down crypto mining operations. The Eighth Court of Appeals halted a trial court order that would have forced Envy Blockchain and its partners to surrender equipment and data, ruling the state overstepped its…
Court Slaps Coinbase: SEC Wins, Crypto Loses A federal appeals court just told Coinbase to stop complaining and start complying. The Third Circuit refused to force the SEC into writing new crypto rules, leaving the exchange exposed to enforcement and sending a clear signal that the agency’s enforcement-first strategy is here to stay. The fight…
Sony Axing Game Discs Will Have Outsized Impact on Low-Income Gamers, Experts Say Sony says it will stop shipping new PlayStation games on physical discs starting in January 2028, a shift that analysts and industry observers expect to accelerate the decline of the used-game economy and tighten platform control over how players buy, resell, and…
SEC Wins Fresh Win Over Bilzerian—Crypto Never Mentioned, But the Ripple Effect Is Real A federal judge in Washington has slapped down a decades-old attempt by Paul Bilzerian to dodge an SEC asset freeze, issuing an order that keeps every dollar still under court lock until the agency is paid in full. The ruling matters…
FIFTH CIRCUIT BARS SEC FROM UNREGISTERED ASSET SWEEPS The Fifth Circuit just handed the SEC a procedural loss that could slow its crypto crackdown. In a 2-1 ruling, the court blocked the agency from seizing digital assets without first proving they qualify as securities under federal law. The decision, issued April 17, 2025, effectively raises…
