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

Another BitMEX executive pleads guilty to violating Bank Secrecy Act

BitMEX former executive Gregory Dwyer has pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.

4 years ago

Privacy

Circle ‘blacklists’ all Tornado Cash ETH addresses effectively freezing USDC

Circle's USDC has "blacklisted" all Ethereum addresses owned by Tornado Cash listed in the US Treasury Department's sanction against the protocol.

4 years ago

Legal

Coinbase facing class-action lawsuit amidst SEC investigation

Two law firms in New York have filed a lawsuit against Coinbase for allegedly misleading information about the custody of customers' assets and trading of unregistered securities.

4 years ago

Banking

Senator Warren takes aim at changing rules on crypto offerings from banks

Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on the OCC to work with the Fed and the FDIC in replacing some regulations on crypto custodial services with more consumer-centric approaches.

4 years ago

Crime

Ex-Coinbase Manager pleads not guilty to insider trading charges

Ex-Coinbase Product Manager Ishan Wahi and his brother Nikhil will have to pay $2 million for bail after they pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Coinbase requests US Supreme Court intervention to stop ‘frivolous cases’

The lawsuits are currently before Federal courts, where the judges have rejected the exchange's move to send the cases into arbitration.

4 years ago

Legal

Binance-owned WazirX under investigation in India over alleged money laundering

The India-based exchange, which operates as an independent subsidiary of Binance, allegedly violated the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.

4 years ago

Legal

Celsius facing legal action by aggrieved custody customers over $180M deposit

Celsius is facing legal action from a group of 400 customers that owns about 4% of the total assets locked in the Celsius network — equating to $180 million.

4 years ago