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Crypto Exchange Kraken To Pay $1,250,000 Fine for Providing Illegal Leveraged Trading to US Customers

Crypto exchange Kraken must pay a hefty fine for providing illegal trading services in the US. In a statement published…

September 30, 2021

After Declaring Ethereum Commodity, Crypto-Friendly Regulator Says He’s Leaving CFTC

A crypto-friendly regulator who had a big impact on the space in a relatively short timespan says he's preparing to…

December 11, 2020

CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert Calls Out Two Major Issues With the ‘Vast Majority of Crypto’

Speaking at Harvard Kennedy School at a lecture series covering financial regulations, Heath Tarbert, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures…

December 15, 2019

Charged: Securities Company Fined for Enticing Americans to Buy Bitcoin (BTC) Products

US regulators fined Switzerland-based XBT Corp. after the company allegedly offered unregistered security-based Bitcoin swaps and failed to register itself…

November 1, 2019

Breakthrough: Powerful US Regulator Is Pro-Bitcoin and Crypto, Says Ethereum Futures and Derivatives Are on the Horizon

The new Chairman of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a major advocate for crypto assets and blockchain…

October 18, 2019

Crypto Mom: Big Brother Is Heading to Your Local Broker Courtesy of the SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will facilitate a massive government surveillance program to track trades. The consolidated audit trail…

October 13, 2019

CNBC’s Brian Kelly Shrugs Off Bitcoin ETF, Says CFTC Announcement on Ethereum Is Huge for Crypto

Another day, another Bitcoin ETF rejection. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission refused what would have been the first fully…

October 11, 2019

Buyer Beware: US Regulators Charge Alleged Bitcoin Fraudster for Swindling Customers Out of $7 Million

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed charges on Monday against a Pennsylvania man they allege swindled two customers…

October 1, 2019

Crypto’s Huge Expansion Is ‘Just Going to Get Bigger’, Says US Regulator

Brian Quintenz, a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says the crypto industry is expanding and is "just…

September 22, 2019

Crypto Milestone: Anyone in the US Can Now Buy the First Physical Bitcoin Futures – From LedgerX, Not Bakkt

Editor's note 8/1/2019: LedgerX has deleted a tweet of the report on CoinDesk announcing that the company has launched the…

July 31, 2019