SEC Issues First Enforcement Action Targeting NFTs
The agency ruled Impact Theory’s NFTs were sold as unregistered securities.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Given Green Light for Unlimited Prison Visits
The FTX founder's lawyers will visit him in prison to prepare their defense after a judge denied Bankman-Fried’s request to have daily meetings at his lawyers’ Manhattan office.
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Ex-OpenSea Executive Nate Chastain Gets 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading
Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company’s home page.
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Bitcoin Developers Push Back Against Craig Wright’s Claim to Billions of Dollars in Bitcoin
The group alleged in a new legal filing that Wright's company Tulip Trading never owned the more than 100,000 bitcoin it sought to reclaim with their help.
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FTX-Linked Farmington State Bank Slapped with Fed Enforcement Action
The Federal Reserve has brought an enforcement action against the one-branch lender for making a foray into digital assets activities in violation of a prior agreement it made.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Jailed Ahead of Trial
Bankman-Fried was accused of leaking former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison's diary to the New York Times.
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Struggling Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Looks Poised for Potentially Massive Layoffs, Sources Say
Nevada regulators recently ordered the crypto company, which BitGo had planned to buy, to cease operations and noted a shortfall in customer funds.
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Global X Refiles Spot-Bitcoin ETF Application, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner
The filing comes around the same time the firm requested permission to offer a bitcoin-futures ETF.
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Razzlekhan’s Husband Admits to Being Hacker in Infamous 2016 Bitfinex Attack: CNBC
Ilya Lichtenstein was arrested alongside his wife Heather Morgan last year on money-laundering charges tied to the proceeds from the exploit.
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Alameda-Linked Coins Pumped by Twitter Bots After FTX Listing, Report Shows
At times, Twitter bots accounted for roughly half of all "chatter" on the platform involving five FTX-listed altcoins.
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