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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 ...

Every generation gets a chance to upgrade its infrastructure. In the 1990s, it was the internet. Policymakers worried that it would disrupt existing industries and create new risks. But instead of cramming the technology into outdated regulatory boxes, lawmakers established rules that let innovation flourish while protecting consumers. The result was one of ...

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 ...

As reported by CoinDesk, the would-be final draft emerges after Republican talks with President Donald Trump produced an agreement on the bill's most contentious remaining issue, an ethics section that limits direct crypto involvement by the president and other senior government officials. The draft described by sources sets that restriction to expire in ...

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The assumption that crypto wrench attacks track the bitcoin price is wrong, and CertiK’s own data is what disproves it. Its H1 2026 Wrench Attack Report logs 52 verified incidents worth $124.1 million — an 11.8-fold jump from $10.5 million in H1 2025, or 1,079% growth against an incident count that rose only 33.3%. If price drove this, the two lines would ...

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 ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in crypto allegedly tied to international investment, romance and recovery scams targeting victims in Canada and the United States. On Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the US Secret Service’s Washington Field Office ...

When will the Bitcoin bear market end? Among market participants, there are two common perspectives. Believers in the “four-year cycle” theory see Bitcoin halving events as the key driver of price movements and expect the current bear market to play out like those in the past. Historically, Bitcoin’s price has bottomed about a year after the cyclical peak ...

For most of the past decade, the central question facing financial advisors was deceptively simple: Should my clients own crypto? That debate is largely over. Bitcoin ETFs have drawn several billion in assets from institutional and retail investors alike. Major custodians now support digital asset holdings. Regulatory clarity, while still evolving, has ...