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Key Takeaways: Sam Bankman-Fried criticized the “politicization” of the FTX case in a new interview with The New York Sun. The FTX founder revealed his politics had shifted further to the right. Speculators think SBF’s newfound right-leaning beliefs may be a way for him to gain clemency. Sam Bankman...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell affirmed the central bank’s support for developing a regulatory framework around stablecoins during a Senate hearing on February 11. At Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed is adjusting its policies in res...

Alexey Pertsev, a developer associated with the cryptocurrency-mixing service Tornado Cash, is set to be released from pretrial detention on Friday, January 10, 2025, under electronic monitoring. He continues to contest money laundering charges in the Netherlands. His release comes ahead of his appe...

As President Donald Trump settles into his second term in the White House, his newly-created nongovernmental advisory panel, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is already facing legal challenges. Donald Trump’s DOGE Under Scrutiny From Law firm According to a January 20 report from The ...

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon entered a U.S. courtroom on Thursday for the first time following his extradition from Montenegro and pleaded not guilty to multiple fraud charges. JUST IN: Do Kwon pleads not guilty to US fraud charges over $40 billion Terra collapse. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) ...

Vice President Kamala Harris may nominate SEC Chairman Gary Gensler as Treasury Secretary if she wins the upcoming November election. The post Kamala Harris Reportedly Considering Gary Gensler for Treasury Secretary if Elected: Senate Sources appeared first on Cryptonews .

The trial against Sam Bankman-Fried continued in Manhattan federal court Thursday when Can Sun, FTX's former general counsel, took the witness stand. The prosecution presented a robust direct examination of the Yale-educated Sun, who served as general counsel for FTX from August 2021 through the exc...

The prosecution in Sam Bankman-Fried's landmark fraud case revealed several telling messages the fallen crypto founder had via direct messaging on Twitter. The prosecution called investigative analyst for the Southern District of New York, Shamel Medrano, to the witness stand, where he was presented...

The case against disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried continued in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, with University of Notre Dame accounting professor, Peter Easton, revealing the results of a detailed analysis of FTX and Alameda Research's financial past.... Read More: Notre Dame Professor Rev...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried met with a number of high-profile political leaders in the lead-up to his crypto empire's collapse, according to phone records presented by the prosecution in Manhattan federal court Thursday afternoon.... Read More: Bankman-Fried met with President Clinton, NYC Mayor E...