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It Isn’t Just the SEC — Feds’ Dragnet Targets Crypto Banking, Too

Spate of Enforcement Actions Poised to Reshape Industry

By Aleksandar Gilbert

The Securities and Exchange Commission. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The National Council of Economic Advisors. The U.S. Justice Department.

This year, an alphabet soup of U.S. agencies have scrutinized the crypto industry like never before. They are wielding indictments, lawsuits, investigations, and penalties to rein in the largely unregulated market. No surprise, crypto folk are none too pleased with the development.

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Crypto Crackdown

SEC Defines ‘Interrelated’ Terra Tokens as Securities

Feds Charge Do Kwon and Terra With Fraud in Case With Deep Implications For Crypto

By Owen Fernau

In a case that appears to broadly define cryptocurrencies as securities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Do Kwon and Terraform Labs, the crypto firm he co-founded, with orchestrating a multi-billion fraud.

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Crypto Heists

Hackers Use ‘Emergency Withdraw’ Flaw to Raid Platypus

ZachXBT Identifies Hacker After Attack Erases Half the Value in USP Stablecoin

By Samuel Haig

Platypus Finance, the team behind the USP stablecoin, suffered an $8.5M exploit on Thursday, sending the price of USP and its native PTP token into a sharp decline.

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Ethereum Scaling

zkSync Counters Polygon With ‘Mainnet’ Rollup

Layer 2s Escalate Battle to Rule Ethereum Scaling Solutions

By Owen Fernau

That didn’t take long. A day after Polygon released a zero-knowledge-based scaling solution for Ethereum, zkSync opened up registrations for developers to deploy applications to its blockchain-based platform, known as a “mainnet.”

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