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Shiba Inu, Ether And VGX Tokens: What's Happening With Voyager's Crypto Assets?
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 12:58pm | 499Voyager Digital is beginning to cash out U.S. dollars received from the sale of Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), Ether (CRYPTO: ETH), and the Voyager Token (CRYPTO: VGX). The assets were sent to the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, according to on-chain data. Last month, $610 million worth of USD...
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Binance CEO Challenges Lawsuit, Touts Crypto Trading Platform As 'Best-In-Class'
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:41am | 426Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the allegations in the civil complaint filed against the company by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are inaccurate and incomplete. Binance and Zhao violated trading and derivatives regulations, the CFTC says. The lawsuit was filed on Monday...
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If You Invested $100 In Ethereum When CFTC First Called It A 'Commodity', Here's How Much You'd Have Now
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 7:35am | 343Binance Holdings Ltd. and CEO Changpeng Zhao are facing a lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday, alleging violations of federal trading and derivatives regulations. What Happened: The lawsuit alleges that Binance facilitated trades in cryptocurrencies...
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Changpeng Zhao 'Answers To No One But Himself,' CFTC Says in Lawsuit Against Binance CEO
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 11:29am | 800This story has been updated with comment from Binance. Binance Holdings Ltd., the leading global digital currency exchange, along with its CEO Changpeng Zhao, is facing a lawsuit Monday from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that accuses the company of violating...
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FTX Founder In Deep Legal Trouble, Demands Insurers Pay Up To Cover Fees
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 10:12am | 341FTX (CRYPTO: FTT) founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed a motion Wednesday requesting that Relm Insurance and Beazley Insurance prioritize reimbursing his legal fees and advance future costs. in accordance with their policy conditions. Directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance policies...
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SEC Gone Rogue And 'Completely Out Of Control,' Says Andreessen Horowitz Executive
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 4:49pm | 404The cryptocurrency industry voiced its frustration with regulators' inability to provide a suitable regulatory framework for the emerging asset class at the International Futures Industry Association conference, March 13-16. Recent enforcement actions by regulators, including the...
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Ethereum In Turmoil As New York AG Says Crypto Is A Security: Bitcoin, ETH Nosedive
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 6:47pm | 566New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday against KuCoin, a virtual currency trading platform, for allegedly operating without proper licensure and registration as a securities and commodities broker-dealer. The lawsuit argues that Ether (CRYPTO: ETH), one of the largest...
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Digital Artist Avraham Eisenberg Charged With Crypto Market Manipulation By CFTC
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - 1:47pm | 540The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the self-proclaimed digital artist Avraham Eisenberg on Jan. 9 with two counts of market manipulation in relation to an exploit on the decentralized finance platform Mango Markets. Eisenberg was charged on a related...
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Banks In New York Must Get Regulatory Nod Before Becoming Involved In Cryptos
Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 12:54pm | 465Banks registered in New York State must request regulatory approval 90 days prior to engaging in crypto assets, even if it is through a third party, according to the New York Department of Financial Services. According to the guidance released on Thursday, banks will be required to provide the...
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FTX Hid SBF's Alameda Liabilities Using Korean Accounts, CFTC Alleges
Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 12:13pm | 677A lawsuit filed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) alleges that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried instructed FTX executives to transfer Alameda Research's sizable obligations to the exchange to a Korean account in order to conceal its liability with the company. The CFTC, the...
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This Crypto Firm Is Promoting Ex-CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz To Policy Head
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 12:13pm | 424Crypto and Web3 venture firm a16z has appointed former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz as the company’s new head of policy a year after hiring him as senior advisor for its crypto team. Quintenz was nominated by both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and unanimously confirmed...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Lobbied Key Regulator To Let Retail Investors Borrow Money To Trade Crypto Derivates, Says CFTC Chair
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - 9:05pm | 496Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the beleaguered FTX cryptocurrency exchange, wanted regulators to let retail investors trade cryptocurrency derivatives with borrowed funds, according to the head of a U.S. regulatory agency. What Happened: Rostin Behnam, chair of the Commodity Futures...
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US Regulators Are Investigating FTX Lending, Handling Of Client Funds: Report
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 1:16pm | 540U.S. financial regulators are reportedly looking into whether troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX appropriately handled customer cash and its connections to other units of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto businesses. The news comes on the heels of a report that FTX's ...
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'Everything's Down' In 2022 Not Just Crypto, FTX CEO Bankman-Fried Tells Mooch
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 10:23am | 653Keading cryptocurrencies are not the only investments that are down in 2022, according to FTX CEO and co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. “Everything’s down this year because dollars are up this year,” Bankman-Fried told SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci at the SALT...
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EXCLUSIVE: Mark Cuban On Purchasing Crypto, Its Regulation, Ethereum Merge And Why You Shouldn't Buy Metaverse Property
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 - 1:54pm | 677Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has got opinions, with one purchasing digital currencies with genuine utility value, claiming that the price of tokens is the least significant and the least interesting component of cryptocurrencies. He also stated in an interview with Benzinga that regulation...