On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged former OpenSea employee Nathaniel Chastain with wire fraud1 for an NFT “insider trading” scheme. At the time, we here at SKrypto asked:...more
On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally abandoned its enforcement action against Coinbase. ...more
3/5/2025
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According to reports, more than 50 lawyers and staffers in the SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit have been reassigned to other roles in the agency....more
There are some in the crypto community who—frustrated with the enforcement first approach of (outgoing) SEC Chair Gary S. Gensler—invested heavily to elect Donald J. Trump the 47th President of the United States. Was that a...more
On November 20, 2023, the SEC filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Payward, Inc. and Payward Ventures, Inc. which, together, do business as Kraken. The...more
11/28/2023
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