KALSHI WINS: COURT SLAPS CFTC OVER ELECTION BETS KalshiEX just secured a federal appeals court victory that could reopen U.S. election betting markets and expose the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to new limits on its power to ban products. The ruling lifts the CFTC’s emergency stay, letting Kalshi’s election contracts trade while the agency’s broader…
Texas Blockchain Firm Wins Emergency Relief Against State Seizure Texas appellate court halts state enforcement against Envy Blockchain, marking a rare win for crypto operators fighting aggressive state regulators. The Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso granted mandamus relief to Envy Blockchain and its affiliates, ordering a lower court to vacate an order that…
OKX’s Rafique doubts Clarity Act will pass, warns optimism is already priced into bitcoin OKX executive Rafique has questioned the likelihood that the proposed “Clarity Act” will become law, while cautioning that market optimism around U.S. regulatory progress may already be reflected in bitcoin’s current valuation. The comments highlight a tension that has been building…
COURT GUTS CFTC POWER IN KRAFT SPOT-TRADE FIGHT The Seventh Circuit just told the CFTC it cannot force Kraft to hand over internal documents tied to cash grain trades, sharply limiting how far the agency can reach when it claims “manipulation” of futures through the physical market. The ruling arrives as regulators race to police…
SEC WINS ROUND AGAINST OLD BILZERIAN GHOST The U.S. District Court in Washington has kept alive a 22-year-old injunction that bars convicted stock manipulator Paul Bilzerian and his family from launching any new securities-related lawsuits without first getting the court’s permission. The ruling came in a short memorandum opinion that rejected Bilzerian’s latest attempt to…
**COURT HANDS SEC NEW POWER OVER TOKEN ISSUERS** **Supreme Court ruling expands SEC reach into crypto** The Supreme Court just handed the SEC a major legal victory, ruling that issuers who sell digital tokens to retail investors can be held liable for fraud even if the tokens later trade on decentralized platforms. The decision came…
Judge Slams CFTC for Overreach in Conway Trust Case The Seventh Circuit just handed the CFTC a stinging rebuke, ruling that the agency overstepped its authority when it tried to punish a family trust for a few bad trades. The decision makes clear that the CFTC cannot treat every misstep as a federal violation and…
Court Nixes SEC’s “Major Questions” Bid, Hands Crypto a Narrow Win In a terse 10-page per curiam ruling, the Fifth Circuit today refused to let the SEC invoke the “major questions doctrine” as a shield against discovery in its enforcement case against a crypto-trading platform. The move keeps the agency’s enforcement theory exposed to early…
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Regal Commodities v Tauber: New York Court Hands Crypto Investors a New Weapon Against Exchanges A New York appellate court just handed retail crypto traders a rare win, ruling that investors can sue crypto exchanges directly for fraud even when the platform claims it’s merely a “marketplace.” The decision in Regal Commodities v Tauber could…
CFTC WINS MANDAMUS FIGHT AGAINST KRAFT The Seventh Circuit just handed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a rare procedural victory in a long-running commodities case, granting a writ of mandamus that forces the district court to reopen a discovery dispute it had shut down. The decision matters because it signals that judges will not let…
COURT FUSES THREE CRYPTO CASES INTO ONE CHICAGO BATTLEFIELD A federal panel just slammed three separate lawsuits against a single unnamed crypto platform into one courtroom in Chicago, handing plaintiffs a unified front and defendants a single, high-stakes fight. The move concentrates discovery, arguments, and potential settlement pressure in the Northern District of Illinois, where…
Judge Blocks SEC’s “Investment Contract” Play in Crypto Case The Fifth Circuit just handed the SEC a stinging defeat, ruling that a digital token is not automatically an investment contract simply because promoters promise future value. The decision slams the brakes on the agency’s sweeping tactic of classifying almost every token as a security, and…
Court Overturns CFTC’s Crackdown on Monex, Signals Limits on Federal Oversight of Crypto Exchanges The Ninth Circuit just handed the CFTC a stinging defeat in its effort to regulate Monex Credit Company, ruling that the agency lacks authority to police spot-market precious-metals transactions even when they are financed with leverage. The decision narrows the CFTC’s…
Cyprus Targets On-Site Audits for Crypto Custodians Cyprus is moving to introduce on-site audits for crypto custodians, signaling a more hands-on approach to oversight of firms that hold digital assets on behalf of customers. The shift highlights an effort to strengthen supervision beyond document-based reviews, with on-the-ground inspections typically used to verify whether internal controls…
Judge Slams CFTC for Overreach in Kitchen Case Trevor Kitchen just beat the CFTC in a D.C. Circuit ruling that narrows the agency’s power to police decentralized crypto protocols. The court threw out a $3.4 million fine and trading ban, saying the Commission failed to prove Kitchen exercised “actual control” over the trading platform in…
CFTC WINS RULING THAT COULD SHAKE CRYPTO FUTURES The Ninth Circuit just handed the CFTC a victory that could redraw the boundary between “just trading” and “illegal futures dealing.” James Devlin Crombie, accused of running an unregistered bitcoin-futures brokerage, lost his bid to overturn a $2.8 million judgment. The court said the agency can treat…
Court Green-Lights IRS Crypto Seizure, Rattling Privacy Hopes The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the IRS can keep millions in digital assets it grabbed from anonymous wallet addresses, even though the owners never appeared to fight the seizure. The decision matters because it shows how easily federal agents can…
Court Slaps Brakes on SEC’s Binance Assault The Securities and Exchange Commission just lost its first major round against Binance in federal court, with Judge Amy Berman Jackson refusing to hand the agency a sweeping victory over the world’s largest crypto exchange. The ruling matters because it signals that judges may no longer rubber-stamp the…
Court Slaps Down Crypto Patent Fight, Sends Message to Innovators Delaware Superior Court just dismissed a high-stakes lawsuit between Diamond Fortress Technologies and its former partner Charles Hatcher II, ending a bitter fight over who owns critical facial-recognition technology used in crypto wallets and digital-identity apps. The ruling is a clear warning shot: Delaware courts…
