CryptoLaw And Legal

The Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act received support from the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association before a key Senate deadline.

Russia's State Duma Financial Market Committee has approved a revised cryptocurrency bill that removes a requirement for users to disclose wallet addresses while advancing the legislation toward its second reading.

Two Polymarket traders have sued the prediction market platform in New York, alleging it wrongly resolved a market on whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC).

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, announced it had won a US$22 million arbitration award against former auditor Mazars USA and asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter judgment on the award.

KuCoin is facing renewed scrutiny after blockchain investigator ZachXBT alleged the exchange sent legal warnings following claims that about US$250,000 stolen through an Atomic stealer attack on 18 August 2025 was routed through five alleged KuCoin deposit addresses.

Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX Digital Markets co-chief executive Ryan Salame, is scheduled to face trial on Nov. 9.

CME Group plans to challenge the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in court over the regulator's decision to approve perpetual futures products in the United States.

Saif Faiq, a 22-year-old from St. Louis, has pleaded guilty to his role in an attempted bitcoin robbery and kidnapping scheme linked to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.

A Manhattan federal court has scheduled a December 7 trial for Gannon Van Dyke, the US Army soldier accused of using classified information to profit from trades on prediction market platform Polymarket.

Prediction market platform Kalshi is facing additional scrutiny after the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division referred the company to regulatory authorities over concerns related to influencer marketing disclosures.

Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried has formally applied for a presidential pardon from US President Donald Trump as he continues efforts to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.

A court in Qingdao, China, has ruled that Bitcoin qualifies as property under criminal law, establishing an important legal precedent in a cryptocurrency theft case involving 107 BTC.