Binance.US lost thousands of customers, billions of dollars in losses and was later forced to lay off 70% of its workforce after the Securities Exchange Commission filed suit. The company is currently making a comeback and expects to resume operations Binance.US coming weeks.
According to the Nikkei: Japan Steel plans to file a lawsuit over the blockage of U.S. steel transactions.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has argued in a lawsuit that staking cryptocurrencies should create a tax liability immediately upon completion. The IRS has dismissed a lawsuit filed by cryptocurrency investor Joshua Jarrett in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The lawsuit concerns the tax treatment of staking, a process by which new tokens are generated by verifying monetary transactions using existing tokens and computing power. In its response on Dec. 20, the IR...
Ryan VanGrack, vice-president of litigation at Coinbase, said the SEC had lost four out of five challenges to its rules under chairperson Gary Gensler, more than the previous three chairpeople combined.
Elon Musk has amended his case against OpenAI to name Microsoft as a defendant, calling their partnership a "de facto merger" and accusing them of anti-competitive behaviour, according to BusinessInsider, which also names Microsoft board member and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman as a defendant.
FTX filed a lawsuit against Anthony Scaramucci and his hedge fund SkyBridge Capital as part of a broader effort to recover money for creditors of bankrupt companies. The lawsuit against the former White House communications director is one of 23 filed Friday in Delaware Bankruptcy Court. Court documents show that plaintiffs also include political groups such as digital asset exchange Crypto.com and the FWD.US founded by Mark Zuckerberg. FTXA claims that because Scaramucci has been "seeking a bai...
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed a lawsuit seeking to recover at least $11 million in Crypto.com accounts linked to its sister company, Alameda Research. It is reported that after Alameda declared bankruptcy Crypto.com locked its accounts and denied FTX administrators' requests to access funds. FTX claims that before filing for bankruptcy, Alameda registered an account on the Crypto.com under the name Ka Yu Tin (aka Nicole Tin). According to the company, this practice is common in ...
FTX, which is in the midst of a bankruptcy reorganization, filed a lawsuit seeking to recover at least $11.40 million from the Crypto.com. The money was allegedly held in a Crypto.com account linked to FTX's sister company, Alameda Research. According to the lawsuit documents, the account was registered in the name of Alameda employee Ka Yu Tin, aka Nicole Tin. FTX said the practice was routine for Alameda to disguise its trading activities. FTX claims Alameda actually controlled and funded the ...
According to court documents filed on Oct. 28, FTX has filed a lawsuit to recover more than $50 million in assets allegedly withheld by KuCoin. The assets were held in a KuCoin account at the now-defunct Alameda Research, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2022. FTX's lawsuit alleges that KuCoin locked down access to these unnamed assets shortly after the bankruptcy proceedings began. At the time, the account held assets worth about $30 million, leaving the management team of the ...
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against UBI Blockchain, alleging violations.
Mango Labs has filed a lawsuit against John Kramer and Maximilian Schneider, accusing them of embezzling $10 million from the Mango Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). John Kramer and Maximilian Schneider held fiduciary positions in the DAO and were accused of conspiring to illegally profit while they bought the DAO's MNGO governance tokens held by the bankrupt FTX on behalf of the DAO. The lawsuit alleges that the duo violated fiduciary duty and violated Puerto Rican civil law regardin...
1. OpenAI seeks to dismiss Musk's lawsuit, saying it is harassment activity. 2. OpenAI is assembling a team for its Singapore office to support AI needs in the Asia-Pacific region. 3. OpenAI expects a loss of $14 billion in 2026. 4. British media: OpenAI plans to adopt a non-profit enterprise structure to fend off hostile takeovers. 5. AI godfather and Nobel laureate Hinton: I am proud of my students for firing the OpenAI CEO. 6. After Tokyo, Japan, OpenAI announced the formation of its second A...
OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against it by Elon Musk, alleging that Mr. Musk used the legal system to harass it in order to boost the standing of rival company xAI. Mr. Musk filed a lawsuit in February claiming that OpenAI had deviated from its "not-for-profit" intent, but refiled it in August after withdrawing it in June. OpenAI alleged that Mr. Musk's allegations were without merit and asked the court to dismiss the case. A hearing is scheduled for November 12.
Coinbase asked the judge for permission to file an early appeal of its lawsuit with the SEC over the SEC's recent appeal of the Ripple ruling. Coinbase hopes to ensure that the Second Circuit has a full picture of the case by filing the appeal at the same time. The exchange wants to review the applicability of the "Howey test" in digital assets, a traditional standard for determining securities. Although the SEC had asked to dismiss Coinbase's appeal, the judge has yet to rule on it. Industry ex...
Green United LLC failed to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the U.S. SEC accusing its executives of running a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining scheme that earned $18 million from investors. Defendants Wright Thurston and Kristoffer Krohn, who run Green United LLC, were charged by the SEC with selling "Green Boxes" and "Green nodes" (miners of GREEN tokens on the Green blockchain) in March. In a September 23 judgment, Judge Ann Marie McIff Allen said the defendants failed to refute the SEC's...