Cryptocurrencies Cardano (ADA) and Solana (SOL) fell more than the broader crypto market on Tuesday, just before trading app Robinhood was set to delist them later in the day at 6:59 p.m. ET. Original Source ADACrackdownDelistRobinhoodSECSetSOLUnderperform CryptoX Portal
Binance and its legal team filed a motion to have the SEC stopped from stating that CZ and the exchange had commingled users’ funds. The ongoing litigation between Binance Holdings Limited and the United Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to have a huge impact on the cryptocurrency industry in the region. Crypto firms that operated in a similar manner as the Binance ecosystem – including staking as a service, crypto custodial services, and token listing for trading – clearly understand whatever the court rules for the exchange will…
A federal judge overseeing the lawsuit between Binance.US, Binance Holdings Limited and CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied a motion that could have stopped the financial regulator from issuing public statements related to the case. In a June 26 ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Amy Berman Jackson suggested it was unnecessary for the court to intervene regarding the basis for a motion from parties affiliated with Binance and Binance.US. The legal team filed a…
“It is not apparent that Court intervention … is needed at this time, or that it is necessary or appropriate for the Court to get involved in wordsmithing the parties’ press releases,” Judge Jackson ruled. “Nor is it clear that the agency’s public relations efforts to date will materially affect proceedings in this case.” Source
California Rep. Maxine Waters, ranking member of the United States House Financial Services Committee, has called on leadership at federal regulatory agencies to weigh in on a proposed framework for digital assets. In separate letters dated June 23, Waters requested Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler provide information on the possible impact of the “Digital Asset Market Structure” bill. The legislation proposed by Republican lawmakers on June 1 aimed to establish a comprehensive framework on digital assets in the U.S. in part by…
The BITX being a 2x leveraged ETF can help investors to increase their profit two times faster than they would do without the leverage. The first leveraged Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) has received approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The ETF, the Volatility Shares 2x Bitcoin Strategy (BITX), will be launched on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) BZX Exchange on Tuesday, June 27th. ETFs can be traded on exchanges like stocks, and their prices change often within the same day as they are bought and…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to postpone the payment of a $30-million fine from bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi until creditors are paid back. The amount represents the balance of a $50-million settlement with the regulator from February 2022. According to June 22 court filings, the SEC will forgo the amount owed by BlockFi to “maximize” and avoid delays in funds’ distribution to investors “until payment in full of all other Allowed Claims.” The document stated, “The Commission has agreed to forego participating in any distributions under…
“There are a lot of details about amounts transferred and where they went…” Barrett asked the SEC’s lawyers. “You say these funds consisted in significant part of Binance platforms, plural, customer assets, including those of Binance.US … Can you clarify or walk me through the transfers you allege were made specifically from the U.S. entities, as opposed to the international Binance platform, to offshore accounts held by Zhao, and how you know that those were customer assets?” Source
Kendall Day led the department’s efforts to combat money laundering, including dealing with charges related to money laundering, deferred prosecution agreement, etc. Amid its ongoing legal fight with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), crypto exchange Binance has hired a former white-collar prosecutor of the Department of Justice (DoJ), as per the court filing on Thursday, June 22. M. Kendall Day, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington DC office, will serve as counsel for Binance in the SEC case. Previously, Day worked for 15 years as the…
Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga pointed out that the documents shared by the SEC contained minimal information, mainly consisting of public briefings on the collaborative efforts between the SEC and the Justice Department in the case of SBF. The Chairman of the United States House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Bill Huizenga, has recently called out the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its failure to produce appropriate documents associated with the charges and arrest of disgraced FTX founder Sam-Bankman Fried. During Thursday’s hearing on June 22, Huizenga said “100% of the…