Regulation & Politics

Regulation & Politics
Customers Bancorp Becomes Latest Crypto-Friendly Bank Hit By Enforcement Action
Web3 advocates described the move as the latest chapter in a coordinated attack on U.S. banks providing services to crypto firms.

Regulation & Politics
Is It Too Late For The Democratic Party To Court Crypto Votes?
A recent Zoom meeting between high-ranking Democrats and crypto industry execs reportedly went poorly.

Regulation & Politics
CFTC Awards $1 Million to Whistleblower in Digital Asset Case
Nearly half of the CFTC's cases in the last fiscal year were related to digital assets.

Regulation & Politics
Russia Legalizes Crypto Mining and Gives Central Bank Crypto-Specific Authority
One law allows for mining operations and the other is an experimental regime for cross-border payments with crypto.

Regulation & Politics
Court Fines Ripple Labs $125M For Securities Law Violations
Judge Torres found that Ripple’s institutional sales of XRP comprised unlicensed securities sales.

Regulation & Politics
IMF Says It’s Willing to Overlook Bitcoin Risk in El Salvador Agreement
The IMF said that many potential risks associated with Bitcoin “have not yet materialized.”

Regulation & Politics
Senator Lummis Introduces BITCOIN Bill to Create ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’
The bill calls for the U.S. to purchase 1,000,000 BTC over five years and follows Trump's speech in which he pledged that he would never sell the government's Bitcoin holdings.

Regulation & Politics
Artists Sue The SEC to Get it to Say NFTs Are Not Securities
Brian Frye and Jonathan Mann are taking the Commission to court to determine whether art is a security.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Charges BitClout Founder with Fraud and Unregistered Offering of Securities
The securities regulator claims Nader Al-Naji defrauded investors after raising over $200 million for a social-fi blockchain.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Amends Binance Lawsuit, Drops Security Claims for Solana and Other Cryptocurrencies
The SEC’s lawsuit against Binance had classified SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, ATOM, SAND, MANA, ALGO, AXS, and COTI as securities.


