Bill McGinley, the chief counsel of the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) under Musk, announced his resignation just days after Trump returned to the White House.
Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase, posted on the X platform: "Last month, we successfully rejected an unreasonable request for a court to force us to continue listing a token that no longer meets our listing criteria. Today, Coinbase has decided to completely dismiss BiT Global's unreasonable lawsuit. There is no legal requirement that Coinbase must custody assets that have an unacceptable level of risk due to their association with Justin Sun et al. We have every right and responsibi...
According to CoinDesk, Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, who was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned in Nigeria for eight months, has been recommended for several positions in the Trump administration, such as the head of cryptoassets at the SEC or the leadership of the FBI's cyber division. According to people familiar with the matter, the proposal to the Trump transition team came from people associated with Trump's participation in the Bitcoin 2024 Nashville conference, including event organ...
Jake Chervinsky, chief legal officer at Variant Fund, a cryptocurrency venture capital firm, said in a social media post: "Today marks the beginning of a major shift in U.S. crypto policy. The goal is to achieve good regulation and a hundred flowers. The approach for the past four years has been to destroy entire meadows. The risk now is that a thousand scams will emerge: weeds kill flowers."
On January 19, Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase, wrote in X: "We have asked the Second Circuit to hear our provisional appeal. Decades of appellate precedent confirm that'investment contracts' require content of a contractual nature. The Circuit Court can provide...
Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paulgrewal.eth, said in a post on the X platform that bitcoin could become the foundation of the global economy like gold, and will become the core of national security, because bitcoin holdings can change the balance of power between countries. Now is the time to build a strategic reserve of BTC.
White House: TikTok should remain available to Americans, TikTok enforcement of the law must be carried out by the next administration.
On January 17, the Central Political and Legal Committee Chang An Jian issued a document on the WeChat official account, saying that the 2025 Central Political and Legal Work Conference pointed out that the Ministry of Justice should take the initiative to study and propose legislative proposals, and study new issues such as unmanned driving, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, virtual currency, and data ownership. It is reported that Chang'an Jian of the Central Political and Legal C...
A report on crypto and blockchain venture capital, filed by Galaxy Digital Research on January 15, found that 46% of investment funds went to U.S.-based startups, with Hong Kong in second place accounting for 16%. The United States also leads in terms of the number of deals, with 36% of all venture capital (VC) deals involving U.S. companies, followed by Singapore (9%) and the United Kingdom (8%).
Galaxy研究副总裁Christine Kim总结了第203次以太坊核心开发者执行(ACDE)电话会议,本周开发人员讨论了Pectra Devnet 5的发布和尚未完成的Pectra规范更新;还讨论了在Holesky测试网上测试Gas费限制增加的下一步措施、RPC标准化工作以及最低节点硬件和带宽要求规范;此外,EF开发者运营工程师Parithosh Jayanthi表示,其在Devnet上看到了Gas费估算问题,并将收集有关该问题的日志在以太坊研...
The Central Political and Legal Work Conference was held in Beijing from the 12th to the 13th. The meeting made arrangements for promoting comprehensive rule of law and striving to build a higher level of rule of law China. The meeting called for the Ministry of Justice to take the initiative to study and propose legislative proposals for key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related fields. For example, new issues such as unmanned driving, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, virtual...
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says stablecoins will still dominate illegal transactions in 2024. Chainalysis' Crypto Crime 2025 report claims that stablecoins accounted for 63% of all crypto transactions related to illegal activities last year. Since 2022, stablecoins have surpassed bitcoin as the most used cryptocurrency in such activities. The report states: "This new reality is part of a broader ecosystem trend in which stablecoins also account for a sizeable proportion of all crypto ...
Hong Kong courts can now serve legal notices of tokenization via blockchain to owners who anonymously hold illegal wallet addresses. Two wallet addresses on Tron received legal notices of tokenization to freeze their assets, according to a court injunction.