News
A U.S. man has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined $1.1 million by the CFTC for misappropriating Bitcoin and Litecoin funds.
Law firm Perkins Coie has hired Kari Larsen after identifying her “understanding of the impact that blockchain and crypto will have” on the legal sector.
The U.S. CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo said that market regulators must keep pace with technological innovations.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Rostin Behnam called for an “open mind” on disruptive tech regulation like blockchain.
The U.S. SEC has published a memorandum from a meeting regarding the much-discussed Bitcoin ETF proposal from VanEck and SolidX.
Switzerland’s Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA) has published new anti-money laundering standards for digital assets and DLT in the financial ma...
A New York federal court has ordered BTC hedge fund Gelfman Blueprint, Inc.and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman to pay over $2.5 million in penalties for a fraudulent P...
The CFTC’s Brian Quintenz has addressed the question of accountability in an era of disintermediated finance and smart contracts.
Former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler said that coins sold through ICOs should be considered securities.
Follow up
The famous crypto-hater testified to the US Senate committee alongside the blockchain advocate Peter Van Valkenburgh.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has halted an ICO that falsely claimed the support of the SEC and used a fake regulatory agency to promote their pro...
Analysis
What "Blockchain Promotional Act 2018" might mean for the US industry.
CNBC’s Cryptotrader host Ran Neuner says it is “too obvious” that Bitcoin “is about to explode” soon, evidently due to the SEC’s much-anticipated ETF decision.
At a recent event in Minneapolis, CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo noted increased enforcement actions last year, partly due to fraudulent crypto cases
U.S. judge ruled that crypto tokens are a commodity, yet again.
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Regulations
This is what happened during the SEC and CFTC meeting.
US regulators appear unlikely to surprise during their meeting on cryptocurrency today.
The chairman of the CFTC remarks on the risks posed by cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
Starbucks clarifies it won’t be accepting Bitcoin for coffee after multiple major news outlets misreport on its new crypto-related venture.
Within a BTC price manipulation probe, US regulators have requested trading data from several crypto exchanges, to determine whether traders colluded to manipul...
SEC chairman Jay Clayton emphasized that ICOs will be met with tighter regulations, while “true cryptocurrencies” will be embraced with smart policies.
The Praetorian Group has filed a $75 mln ICO with the SEC, potentially offering the first ever registered security tokens in the US.
Bitcoin price has risen by 17 percent within the past 24 hours, after dipping below $5,560 earlier today.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is calling for the regulation of cryptocurrencies, prompted by the ‘increasing risks’ they see in the growing popularity of c...
Ex-CFTC chairman turned crypto adviser Jim Newsome has forecast crypto markets continuing to grow until regulation is set in stone and big money is involved.
Positive outlooks from the SEC and CFTC have breathed new life into cryptocurrency markets- reversing a massive market crash.
At a hearing in Washington DC, Coinbase’s Chief Legal and Risk Officer claimed that the current regulatory system ‘is harming healthy innovation’ of crypto.
Nearly the whole of the crypto market is in the red as the CFTC launches a price manipulation probe.
The operator of 23 leading global exchanges, including the NYSE, has announced plans to create an “open and regulated, global ecosystem for digital assets.”
Former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton: Bitcoin needs regulation.
The CFTC has won a court order to permanently ban New York-based firm CabbageTech Corp. for cryptocurrency-related fraud.
A new MIT lecturer, previously Goldman Sachs exec and gov’t regulator, sees ETH and XRP as potentially “noncompliant securities”.
Two U.S. CFTC divisions have jointly issued a staff advisory about the key areas in listing a virtual currency derivative product.
Markets have plunged, evidently in response to the U.S. SEC’s rejection of the Winklevoss brother’s second Bitcoin ETF application.
CFTC says they will have strict rules for BTC futures as FIA issues complaints.
