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One of the operators of sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex was arrested in India on Tuesday, according to two recent news reports. Lithuanian national and Russian resident Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was reportedly arrested by police in the Indian state of […]

Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange popular with ransomware gangs and darknet markets, has been taken down in an international law enforcement operation, according to a Friday announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). On Thursday, a coalition of law

The new chief counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) freshly-created Crypto Task Force is a crypto lawyer. Mike Selig, who was named chief counsel of the task force in a Monday announcement from the SEC, was previously

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is officially washing its hands of memecoins. The federal securities regulator said that memecoins — which it defined as a “type of crypto asset inspired by internet memes, characters, current events or trends

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) might be done with Gemini, but Gemini isn’t done with the SEC. According to a Wednesday X post from Gemini co-founder and President Cameron Winklevoss, the SEC informed Gemini on Monday that it

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling on Wednesday largely agreeing with a lower court’s 2023 decision to toss out a class action suit against decentralized exchange Uniswap. A group of investors originally sued Uniswap

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dropped its investigation into Uniswap Labs, the Brooklyn-based company behind the decentralized protocol of the same name, according to a Tuesday announcement from Uniswap. Uniswap received a Wells notice — essentially, a heads-up

U.S. authorities have seized about $31 million in crypto tied to the 2021 hack of Uranium Finance, according to a Monday X post from the Southern District of New York (SDNY). According to the post, the seizure was the result

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) will get to keep the big gavel after his fellow Republicans voted to re-elect him House Speaker on Friday afternoon. Johnson, who has been publicly backed by President-elect Donald Trump, was able to garner the minimum

Alex Mashinsky, the founder and one-time CEO of bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius Network, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports from Reuters and Inner City Press. He has reportedly agreed to a maximum