Opinion by: Zachary Kelman, attorney In 2021, Crypto-America was in the doldrums. Senator Elizabeth Warren and her loyal SEC enforcer, Gary Gensler, unleashed a blitzkrieg against crypto, bombarding platforms with lawsuits and pushing legislation so

United States Vice President J.D. Vance urged action on digital asset regulation, warning that inaction could send trillions offshore, as lawmakers face resistance partly due to President Trump’s crypto ties.Vance, who spoke on Wednesday at the Bitco

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins fielded questions from lawmakers about President Donald Trump-linked memecoin and whether connections to crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun could pose a problem.Atkins, less than a month in the ro

Former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler may not have been as hostile to crypto behind closed doors as he appeared to be in public, according to former US Representative Patrick McHenry.In a May 13 appearance on the Crypt

New U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins announced a significant change in the agency's approach to cryptocurrency regulation on Monday and outlined details involving issuance and custody as the agency takes on a "new day." Presi

Newly released documents reveal that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission internally discussed whether XRP could be classified as a security and that the agency was asked by the New York Attorney General's Office to file a brief in support of

The SEC and Ripple’s joint motion to pause legal proceedings on their cross-appeal has been approved. Both parties will have 60 more days to agree on how to amicably end their legal battle.The Ripple case has been moving toward a final resolution for

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officially dropped its cases against Kraken, Consensys and Cumberland DRW in respective announcements late Thursday.The agency said it had filed joint stipulations with the firms on March 27 to dismiss its

The US Securities and Exchange Commission will host four more crypto roundtables — focusing on crypto trading, custody, tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi) — after hosting its first crypto roundtable on March 21.The series of roundtables, o

Can we expect a massive accumulation of Bitcoin during the presidency of US President Donald Trump? If we base it on the recent statements of Bo Hines, Trump’s pick to head its Digital Assets section, the industry will soon see an aggressive investme

Crypto exchange Bitnomial has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of launching its Ripple XRP futures in the United States.The Chicago-based firm said in a March 19 statement to X that its XRP fu

A proposed rule change pushing for some crypto firms to register as exchanges could be abandoned under a new directive from the acting chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. During a March 10 speech at the Washington Conference of the

Opinion by: Kai Wawrzinek, co-founder of Impossible Cloud NetworkIt seemed like the punitive US Securities Exchange Commission crypto enforcement era was over, but former Chair Gary Gensler left us some truffles to unearth. Even after his departure,

In his recent prison interview with Tucker Carlson, Sam Bankman Fried maintained his innocence and expressed confusion as to why he was convicted of fraud. He argued that FTX was a legitimate service, and although there was a crisis, the company was

By Kenneth CorbinWith the election of President Donald Trump, it was widely assumed that his second administration would take a more supportive stance toward cryptocurrency than the Biden White House did. Now just over a month in, the industry is sta

Update (Feb. 27 at 18:57 UTC): This article has been updated to incorporate remarks from Consensys attorney Bill Hughes. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed in principle to drop its lawsuit against crypto firm Consensys. The suit cla

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping yet another case against an American crypto company, as the regulator continues its strategic retreat from the so-called “regulation by enforcement” approach to crypto regulation it took u

The makeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be well underway following news that the agency plans to dismiss its years-long case against Coinbase. The crypto exchange announced on Friday that the SEC would be dropping that

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its effort to undo a court ruling blocking a controversial broker-dealer rule that would have given the agency jurisdiction over decentralized crypto protocols.In a brief Feb. 19 filing to the Fif

Crypto exchange Coinbase believes the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should be granted full authority over spot cryptocurrency markets — a move that could significantly diminish the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) role in t