Legal News

Legal developments, lawsuits, and compliance updates impacting the blockchain industry.

Stories 1,646 in this category

Coverage footprint 6.6% of all CryptoSlate stories

Regulation

The SEC finally admits what caused the mess US crypto was in before Trump took power

U.S. crypto companies were being regulated twice — now regulators say they’ll try to fix it.

3 weeks ago

Legal

Report: Arrested Tornado Cash Developer allegedly historic links to Russian intelligence agency FSB

Alexey Pertsev previously worked as a developer for Digital Security OOO, which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2018 for aiding Russia's offensive cyber capabilities.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Binance clarifies it froze Baking Bad corporate account due to law enforcement request, locked assets in agency custody

Binance's statement came in response to Baking Bad publicly claiming the account had been frozen "without any explanations."

4 years ago

Legal

Bitboy drops lawsuit, requests Atozy to remove defamatory video

Bitboy said all he wanted was for the defamatory video to be taken off, and never intended to make it a public case.

4 years ago

Technology

Professor re-uploads Tornado Cash code to GitHub for research purposes

A professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University re-uploaded Tornado Cash and Tornado Nova source codes to GitHub, saying he has been using the code for teaching purposes.

4 years ago

Legal

Cobie donates $100K to aid content creator’s legal defense in defamation lawsuit filed by BitBoy

The content creator — Atozy — is being sued for defamation by BitBoy over calling the latter a scammer in a Youtube video.

4 years ago

Stablecoins

Tether may be in violation of US sanctions on Tornado Cash

Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino said the company is not obligated to comply with U.S. sanction rules. But this stance puts Tether at "legal risk."

4 years ago

Legal

Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs

Celsius hits back at Jason Stone claiming he used client funds to buy CryptoPunks while losing 30,000 ETH in a bad DeFi trade.

4 years ago

Legal

Former OpenSea exec claims insider trading laws cannot apply to NFTs

Nate Chastain is under trial for exploiting OpenSea's NFT data for his personal trades and has requested the court to dismiss his case on a technicality based on Carpenter wire fraud theory.

4 years ago