Tether has released a letter of intent saying that it plans to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that claims it manipulated the crypto market. The class action lawsuit seeks retribution for damages of more than $1 trillion....
The Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a plea deal with Konstantin Ignatov for his involvement in OneCoin Ltd., a cryptocurrency project based out of Bulgaria. Ignatov pleaded guilty to multiple counts including money laundering, according to the BBC. The...
Kik is struggling to mount a strong defense in a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its $100 million initial coin offering. As reported last month, Toronto-based Kik’s legal team attempted to persuade the district...
Messaging app firm Telegram has made a new plea to a U.S. court to drop an action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging its yet-to-be launched token is a security. In a filing to the district...
Tassat Derivatives has successfully acquired a swap execution facility (SEF) registration after securing regulator sign-off. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Thursday that it had approved the transfer of a SEF registration from trueEX LLC to Tassat...
One company thinks it knows how to get a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approved by U.S. regulators. Wilshire Phoenix, a relatively young financial firm in New York, filed to launch the United States Bitcoin & Treasury Investment Trust ETF in...
Electric Coin Company (ECC), the firm led by zcash creator Zooko Wilcox, officially shared the zcash trademark with the Zcash Foundation (ZF) on Wednesday. Sources with knowledge of the trademark negotiations told CoinDesk talks were more complicated than either...
In a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission-led case, a court has fined another cryptocurrency investment scheme for fraud and misappropriating client funds. According to a CFTC news release from Friday, the district court for the Eastern District of New...
Ripple’s argument that an XRP holder waited too long to file suit has no precedent, a new legal filing claims. Bradley Sostack, the plaintiff in a putative class-action lawsuit, said Ripple’s statute of repose – a three-year period where victims can...
The Takeaway: Monday is the deadline for an XRP holder to file a response to Ripple’s motion to dismiss his suit against the company. That motion largely sidestepped the plaintiff’s argument that Ripple sold XRP as an unregistered security,...