According to the Wall Street Journal, Bill McKinley, the chief counsel of Elon Musk's government efficiency unit, has announced his resignation.
According to the official website of the Delaware State Department, Bitwise has submitted documents to Delaware to apply for registration of the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF. The establishment time is January 22, 2025, and the registration agency is CSC DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY. James Seyffart, ETF analyst at Bloomberg, said: "Note: this is just a trust registration, still not an official ETF filing with the SEC. At least not yet."
On January 22, according to Bloomberg Law, Coinbase filed an interlocutory appeal request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to rule that cryptocurrency transactions on its platform are not securities transactions. Coinbase argues that cryptoassets, unlike stocks, should not be regulated by the SEC.
On January 21, according to the typical case of punishing gambling and related crimes according to law issued by the Supreme People's Court, the People's Court of Rongchang District of Chongqing heard the case of defendant Wang Zhimou opening a casino. The amount involved in the case reached 590 million yuan, including more than 900 bank card accounts and virtual currency funds. The court sentenced Wang Zhimou to four years and five months in prison and a fine for the crime of opening a casino, ...
U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove sentenced Anurag Pramod Murarka, a 30-year-old Indian national, to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to launder money, according to a Department of Justice announcement. Murarka is a 30-year-old international virtual currency provider operating under two nicknames ("elonmuskwhm" and "la2nyc")...
Kraken's chief legal officer, Marco Santori, a veteran lawyer who led Kraken's legal department for nearly five years, announced his resignation and said he would continue to serve as a senior adviser to the company, helping Kraken build a "global advisory board."
Arkansas lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would ban cryptocurrency mining within 30 miles of any U.S. military installation in the state.
US crypto law firm BurwickLaw has announced that it will file a legal action on behalf of investors who have suffered losses on Pump.fun. It is reported that only 0.4% of the 14 million crypto wallets that interacted with Pump.fun made more than $10,000 in profits.
美国加密货币律师事务所BurwickLaw宣布,将代表在Pump.fun上遭受损失的投资者提起法律诉讼。据悉,在与Pump.fun互动的1400万个加密钱包中,仅有0.4%的钱包获得超过1万美元的盈利。
A U.S. federal judge has sentenced HDR Global Trading Limited, also known as the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, to two years of non-supervised probation and a $100 million fine. On January 15, at a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge John Koeltl ruled against BitMEX. About six months ago, the cryptocurrency exchange admitted to violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
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.
On January 13 local time, David Weiss, the special prosecutor of the Department of Justice in charge of the tax case of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joseph Biden, announced the end of the six-year investigation into Hunter Biden and released the final report. In response to Mr. Weiss's report that President Joseph Biden pardoned Hunter Biden for allegedly breaking the law and that the Hunter case was "politically influenced" and "unjust," Mr. Weiss said "the president's comments were incon...
On January 12, the Russian Central Bank has introduced regulations to regulate foreign exchange operations involving digital rights. According to Russian law, digital rights include electronic records such as cryptocurrencies, tokenized securities, and digital tokens. These rights represent claims or obligations related to assets or services. The new decree, which will come into force on January 11, outlines the obligations of residents engaged in such transactions and aims to clearly define and...
On January 11 local time, the Department of Justice's special prosecutor in charge of the Trump case, Jack Smith, has officially left the Department of Justice on January 10. Jack Smith was appointed as the special prosecutor in November 2022 to investigate two cases of US President-elect Trump. Court documents show that the Department of Justice is in an ongoing dispute with Trump's defense team over the release of the investigation report on Trump's conduct to prevent the transfer of president...