Kalshi Wins, CFTC Authority Takes a Hit A federal appeals court just refused to pause a lower-court order letting Kalshi run elections-based event contracts—marking the first time a major venue can legally offer direct bets on U.S. political outcomes. The ruling keeps Kalshi’s platform live while the CFTC appeals, and it signals that regulators may…
Court Hands Envy Blockchain a Texas-Sized Defeat Envy Blockchain and its co-founders lost a last-ditch legal bid to halt a civil fraud suit in El Paso, as a Texas appeals court refused to shield them from state-court discovery. The ruling keeps the case alive and signals that state regulators can still pursue crypto ventures even…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport SpaceX, the aerospace company led by Elon Musk, is planning a major new spaceport project in Louisiana with a reported price tag of $100 billion. The plan signals a significant expansion of SpaceX’s launch and space infrastructure footprint, as the company continues building out the capacity needed…
SEC Gains Ground in Commodities Turf War The Seventh Circuit just told the CFTC to back off a judge’s order that would have forced the agency to turn over sensitive enforcement files. The ruling hands the SEC a quiet but powerful precedent: when two federal regulators clash over the same crypto trading platform, courts may…
SEC WINS FRESH SWEEP AGAINST OLD WALL STREET GHOST A federal judge in Washington just handed the SEC its 25th contempt finding against Paul Bilzerian and his family, blocking every move they make to re-enter U.S. markets and keeping $180 million in frozen assets locked down. The ruling shows regulators still wield decades-old injunctions as…
**Supreme Court Slaps SEC’s Wrist, Hands Crypto Breathing Room** The Supreme Court just handed crypto markets a tactical reprieve. In a 6-3 decision released this morning, the justices narrowed the SEC’s ability to treat every digital token as an unregistered security, ruling that mere algorithmic resale on secondary markets does not automatically make token creators…
Court Slaps CFTC in Conway Trust Case, Shrinks Agency Reach Over Crypto The Seventh Circuit just handed the CFTC a rare loss, ruling that the agency cannot force a family trust to register as a commodity pool operator when its futures trading stays inside a trust structure and never touches outside investors. The decision narrows…
COURT SLAMS BRAKES ON SEC STABLECOIN SWEEP The Fifth Circuit just handed the SEC a sharp loss on its attempt to treat certain stablecoins as unregistered securities, and the decision could ripple straight into how every major exchange and DeFi protocol handles dollar-pegged tokens. In a single opinion, the court narrowed the agency’s reach, forced…
Bank of England Handed New Legal Duty to Foster Stablecoin Innovation The UK has given the Bank of England a new legal responsibility to support innovation in stablecoins, adding an explicit pro-innovation objective to the central bank’s role as a regulator in this area. Stablecoins are digital tokens designed to hold a steady value, typically…
Court Rejects Trader’s “Good Faith” Defense in Commodities Fraud Case In a terse, three-page decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department, has told commodities trader David Tauber he cannot hide behind the Commodity Exchange Act’s “good faith” defense after he allegedly lured Regal Commodities into a $47 million grain futures contract that never existed. The ruling…
Court Slaps CFTC: No Blank Check on Kraft Docs The Seventh Circuit just told the CFTC it cannot force Kraft Foods and Mondelez to hand over internal documents without proving they are relevant to an ongoing probe. In a swift 3-0 ruling, the judges denied the agency’s request for a writ of mandamus, effectively halting…
COURT NIXES COIN-CASE MERGER—PANEL SCATTERS LITIGATION Judges just refused to bundle three separate lawsuits against a crypto exchange into one Illinois courtroom, leaving plaintiffs to fight on three separate fronts. The ruling keeps the cases alive but scattered, adding friction, cost, and uncertainty for both traders and the platform itself. The fight began when customers…
Judge Blocks SEC’s Crypto Crackdown in Texas Showdown The Fifth Circuit just slapped the SEC with a major loss in its crypto enforcement push, ruling that the agency can’t force digital-asset firms to register as exchanges without clearer rules. The decision could reshape how the Commission goes after platforms and tokens nationwide. The case started…
Court Hands CFTC New Power to Police Crypto Exchanges The Ninth Circuit just reversed a lower court and ruled that the CFTC can sue Monex Credit Company for alleged fraud in its leveraged metals trading, even without proving that customers lost money or that the trades occurred on a registered exchange. The decision expands the…
MoonPay’s newest integration lets AI agents handle crypto lending on Solana The provided material includes only a headline and no accompanying details about the integration, such as which product was updated, which lending protocol is involved, what “AI agents” refers to in practice, or when the change was announced. Without additional source information, it isn’t…
Court Stuns CFTC, Says Crypto Futures Rules Can’t Be Retroactive A federal appeals court just told the Commodity Futures Trading Commission it cannot punish traders for breaking rules that did not exist when the trades happened. The ruling in Trevor Kitchen v. CFTC slams the brakes on the agency’s attempt to stretch its authority backward…
Court Hands CFTC Clear Win Over Crypto Promoter The Ninth Circuit just handed the CFTC a sweeping victory that treats certain digital tokens as commodities, giving the regulator a powerful new lever in crypto enforcement. In a short but blunt opinion, the court affirmed that James Devlin Crombie violated the Commodity Exchange Act by operating…
COURT GREENLIGHTS IRS CRYPTO ACCOUNT SWEEPS The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has cleared the way for the IRS to seize twenty-four cryptocurrency accounts tied to a tax-evasion probe, giving federal agents direct access to private keys and wallet balances. The ruling matters because it turns civil forfeiture into a fast, low-friction…
SEC Sues Binance, Crypto Giants Face Reckoning The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a sweeping lawsuit against Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao, accusing the world’s largest crypto exchange of operating an unregistered securities platform and mishandling customer funds. The complaint, brought in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeks to freeze assets, claw back…
Court Slams Delaware Crypto Startup in Contract Fight Diamond Fortress Technologies and its founder Charles Hatcher II lost their contract lawsuit against a former partner in Delaware Superior Court, with the judge throwing out most claims and leaving the company with little leverage to recover disputed technology or funds. The dispute began when Diamond Fortress…
