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The US Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to settle a Coinbase lawsuit seeking internal records from the agency at the height of the Biden-era SEC crackdown on crypto. The agreement, filed on Wednesday, ends a two-year lawsuit between the SEC and Coinbase, in which the crypto exchange sought internal documents from the ...

Senate Republicans released an updated version of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on Wednesday following briefing calls with stakeholders. The update adds a package of ethics restrictions targeting digital asset activities by public officials and their spouses. The revised legislation comes after negotiations between the White House and Republican ...

A top U.S. securities regulator has a warning for the fast-growing world of crypto vaults and onchain lending: moving money onto a blockchain doesn't automatically put it outside the reach of securities law. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce made the case in a statement published July 22, titled 'Headstands and ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to settle a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Coinbase. The suit closes a two-year dispute over internal records from the agency's crypto enforcement campaign under former Chair Gary Gensler. The agency's inspector general found in 2025 that text messages from a ...

The Commission, the Crypto Task Force, and staff across the Divisions have done tremendous work in the past year and a half to provide clarity to crypto markets as to when a certain asset or activity is subject to the federal securities laws and, if so, how those laws apply. Much of this work has clarified that many crypto assets and activities are not ...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under U.S. securities laws when their structure involves managerial control, investment activity, or investor reliance on others. Peirce said the SEC has worked over the past year and a half to clarify when crypto assets and activities fall outside federal securities ...

Coinbase has settled a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over records it sought from the agency, the cryptocurrency exchange's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, ​said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday. Grewal said the agency, which polices corporate record-keeping, had lost text messages between ...

Last month, a major U.S.-based digital asset company’s compliance team discovered that more than $200 million in stablecoins were en route to North Korea. They had eight hours and the technical ability to freeze the transaction, yet reportedly did nothing. Why? Because America’s current laws left them exposed to company-killing levels of civil litigation if ...

For weeks, the CLARITY Act has been stalled in the Senate over one question: would the ethics rules in the bill really apply to President Trump, whose family has enormous crypto holdings? According to reports, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) have reached an agreement with the White House on ethics language that directly involves ...

Grayscale filed an S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday to launch a Grayscale Worldcoin (WLD) ETF. The proposed fund, which would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD, is designed to give investors exposure to Worldcoin through a traditional brokerage account, eliminating the need to buy the token ...