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The New York Attorney General’s office today filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin for allegedly violating securities and commodities laws in the state. In the complaint, Attorney General Letitia James makes the…
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The crypto community is debating whether SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) should ever be used for account security following news that a Coinbase customer is suing the cryptocurrency exchange for $96,000. On Mar. 6…
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Bankrupt proprietary trading firm Alameda Research has sued Grayscale for reducing the value of FTX Debtorsâ shares in its Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts. Alameda alleges that the firm reduced the value of the…
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Failed crypto company FTX announced today that its affiliate Alameda Research is suing asset manager Grayscale Investments in a bid to unlock investments that it says are being improperly withheld from its customers. …
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Top Stories This Week Paxos âcategorically disagreesâ with the SEC that BUSD is a security The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defined the stablecoin Binance USD (BUSD) as a security…
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Larry Dean Harmon, the founder of defunct cryptocurrency mixer Helix, for failing to pay a civil penalty of $60 million since his indictment in…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission launched a lawsuit again two advisory companies and their owner for running a Ponzi-like cryptocurrency scheme. The firms operated for over four years and manage to raise nearly…