**Coinbase Wins First Round, SEC Authority Faces Fresh Test** The Third Circuit just handed Coinbase a procedural win that could slow the SEC’s crypto enforcement campaign. Judges ruled the agency must face a federal appeals court before forcing Coinbase to register as an exchange. The decision shifts power away from the SEC’s own administrative process…
Oracle’s nearly $1 billion option grants to Ellison and co-CEOs ended the year underwater despite a strong stock run Oracle disclosed that stock option packages awarded to co-founder Larry Ellison and newly appointed co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia—worth a combined $988 million on the grant date—finished Oracle’s fiscal 2026 with no intrinsic value. In…
MEXC and Payward Signal Intent to Explore Broader Collaboration Ahead of TOKEN2049 MEXC and Payward have signaled plans to explore a broader collaboration ahead of TOKEN2049, bringing the two crypto industry companies into closer discussions as the event approaches. The announcement indicates that the parties are considering ways to work together, although no specific initiatives,…
Tether, Fasanara Launch $400M Global Credit Fund Tether and fintech lender Fasanara Capital are launching a $400 million evergreen private credit fund targeting up to $3 billion in lending. The vehicle will use USDT infrastructure to finance asset-backed loans through fintech platforms across more than 60 countries, pushing stablecoins deeper into real-world credit markets. The…
Cardano’s ADA Leads Gains in Narrow Range-Bound Market Cardano’s ADA was the strongest performer in a broader cryptocurrency market that remained confined to a narrow, range-bound pattern. The move positioned ADA ahead of other major digital assets during the session, although the overall market showed limited directional momentum. Range-bound trading typically reflects a period in…
Crypto Groups Move to Stop Illinois Tax Coin Center for Innovation and the Blockchain Association are asking a court to block Illinois’ planned 0.2% tax on crypto transactions before it takes effect in January. The groups argue the levy is unconstitutional and could force exchanges, businesses, and users into expensive new compliance systems. The challenge…
Fairshake Sets List of U.S. House Candidates It Plans to Support Fairshake, the crypto industry’s campaign arm, has identified a list of favored candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and plans to spend money supporting their campaigns. The move signals a more targeted approach to crypto-focused political spending, with Fairshake directing resources toward selected…
Hunter Biden Laptop Controversy Gets a Memecoin Afterlife A new memecoin called LAPTOP is turning a politically charged controversy into a speculative crypto trade. The project openly states that it has no utility, while promising to lock founder tokens for six months and reserve 2% for wallets that lost money on TRUMP. The token appears…
Trump Taps Jay Clayton, the SEC Chair Who Sued Ripple, to Lead White House AI Push President Donald Trump has named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead a new White House effort on artificial intelligence, placing a familiar figure for crypto audiences at the center of a major federal policy initiative. Trump said…
Hester Peirce Leaves SEC After Years at the Center of US Crypto Policy U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce, one of the agency’s most visible voices on digital-asset policy, is set to leave the SEC effective Oct. 2. Peirce announced her resignation in a letter posted on X on Sept. 25, bringing to…
Court Greenlights Kalshi’s Election Bets, CFTC Stunned A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to pause a lower-court order that clears Kalshi’s political-event contracts for trading, handing the prediction market a decisive win over the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The two-sentence ruling keeps the CFTC’s appeal alive but lets Kalshi’s yes-no markets on congressional…
Court Orders Crypto Firm to Texas Courtroom Texas appellate judges just forced a crypto company back into state court after it tried to bolt. The ruling keeps the company on the hook in El Paso and signals that crypto firms cannot dodge local judges by claiming federal turf. Envy Blockchain and its partners wanted a…
COURT SLAPS CFTC IN KRAFT MANDAMUS FIGHT The Seventh Circuit just denied the CFTC’s emergency petition for a writ of mandamus in its decade-old case against Kraft Foods and Mondelēz. The ruling keeps the district court in control of discovery and settlement talks, handing the agency a procedural loss that could ripple into how enforcement…
SEC Loses Bid to Freeze Bilzerian’s Estate A federal judge has refused to let the SEC keep Paul Bilzerian’s heirs locked out of his long-frozen assets, loosening a 2001 injunction that has blocked the family from any meaningful use of the estate for more than two decades. The ruling marks the first crack in a…
Court Hands SEC Narrow Win, DeFi Braces for Next Round The Supreme Court just green-lit the SEC’s right to pursue unregistered crypto exchanges operating abroad, but it slammed the door on sweeping enforcement tactics that could have chilled innovation overnight. The ruling keeps the agency’s long arm extended while warning that not every protocol counts…
Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says it has attributed last month’s $387 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget to DPRK-linked actors, adding support to a growing consensus that North Korea was behind one of the largest crypto thefts of the year. Chainalysis said…
COURT WIDENS CFTC NET OVER OFF-EXCHANGE BITCOIN TRADES A federal appeals court has just handed the CFTC broad new power to police off-exchange crypto derivatives, and the ripple effects could reach every trader and platform that touches bitcoin futures. In a 27-page opinion issued yesterday in Conway Family Trust v. CFTC, the Seventh Circuit ruled…
This Week in Crypto Law (October 4, 2026) No specific legal or regulatory developments were provided for the week ending October 4, 2026.
Court Slashes SEC Crypto Authority, Markets Celebrate The Fifth Circuit just handed the crypto industry a major legal victory by narrowing the SEC’s enforcement reach over unregistered digital assets. The ruling sends an immediate signal that judges are willing to limit federal regulators when statutes are ambiguous, and traders are already pricing in lighter oversight….
Court Slaps Down Trader’s “Not My Crypto” Defense New York’s top appeals court just ruled that you can’t dodge a commodities-fraud lawsuit by claiming the digital tokens never touched your wallet. The March 27 decision in Regal Commodities v Tauber strips away a favorite shield used by crypto middlemen and hands regulators a clearer path…
