Law and Order

Top interrogators from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are accused of allegedly orchestrating one of the country’s most audacious crypto thefts—embezzling over $21 million in crypto while investigating defunct exchange Cryptoland and its CEO, Sina Estavi. The officers, part of the IRGC’s intelligence and economic crimes unit, reportedly moved tokens from the exchange’s seized […]

Japan plans to reclassify cryptocurrencies as financial products and implement insider trading restrictions similar to those for traditional financial markets, Nikkei reported Sunday. For these changes, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is looking to submit legislation to its parliament as early as 2026, following closed-door consultations with industry experts. The proposed changes would revise the

Haliey Welch, better known online as the girl behind “Hawk Tuah,” isn’t worried about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into her meme coin anymore after the agency dropped the investigation, she said Friday. “For the past few months, I’ve been cooperating with all the authorities and attorneys, and finally, that work is complete,” she

In a potential sign of brewing tensions regarding key language in multiple stablecoin bills circulating in Congress, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said this week he doesn’t believe stablecoin issuers like Tether should have to comply with the anti-money laundering Bank Secrecy Act—a major sticking point of both the Senate’s stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act, and

Bitcoin might soon be part of South Carolina’s balance sheet. Introduced by state Rep. Jordan Pace, the “Strategic Digital Assets Reserve Act,” proposes that the state treasurer be allowed to allocate up to 10% of certain public funds into digital assets—starting with Bitcoin. The House Bill 4256, or HB4256, seeks to authorize the state treasurer

Brianna “Bri” Stern, the model and crypto influencer behind SISTER, a Solana meme coin launched in June last year, has reportedly filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles against controversial internet personality Andrew Tate. Stern claimed that Tate assaulted her at the Beverly Hills Hotel on March 11. On Thursday evening, Stern took to social

The U.S. SEC on Thursday dismissed enforcement actions against three major crypto firms, filing joint stipulations to drop the cases with prejudice, making the decisions final and not subject to refile. Kraken, ConsenSys, and Cumberland DRW LLC all saw their respective lawsuits terminated simultaneously, marking the latest reversal in the agency’s regulatory approach toward digital

FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t killing time with Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York anymore.  Following a behind-bars appearance on the “The Tucker Carlson Show” earlier this month, the one-time crypto wunderkind has been shipped to Oklahoma. Bankman-Fried is currently being held at FTC Oklahoma City, a transfer center with around 1,450

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took aim at a stablecoin-focused bill making its way through Congress, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of using the legislation to further his own financial interests. The Massachusetts senator shared the critique while linking a post about President Trump’s decentralized finance project, World Liberty Financial, launching its own

The Senate voted 70-28 on Wednesday in support of a House resolution to knock down a Biden-era rule previously pushed by the IRS that would have required decentralized finance platforms to collect and report taxpayer information. Critics argued the rule was “fundamentally unworkable” because DeFi platforms operate through automated code on blockchains without human intervention