The US DOJ has announced its intention to dismiss the case against Nathaniel Chastain, a former official at the online marketplace for digital trading cards known as OpenSea, over an insider trading case against the defendant, whose deferred prosecution plea bargain is set to expire the following month. Charges filed
A joint announcement was made between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to host an event titled “SEC–CFTC Harmonization: U.S. Financial Leadership in the Crypto Era,” to be held on January 27, 2026. The joint forum to be hosted at the CFTC headquarters in
The prosecutor from South Korea is investigating the disappearance of Bitcoin captured from government custody. A lot of Bitcoins were missing at the time of the storage and management process of prosecutors. As per the internal reviews, it was reported that the incident is believed to have occurred in mid-2025.
F/m Investments, a $18 billion U.S. asset manager, filed a landmark application on January 21 with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval to tokenize shares of its U.S. Treasury 3‑Month Bill ETF (TBIL) on a permissioned blockchain ledger, marking the first investment registered company to tokenize its shares on blockchain,
Today, Ramp Swaps (Ireland) Limited, trading as Ramp Network, a financial technology company that links the global financial infrastructure with the cryptocurrency economy, announced that it is now operational as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) in the EU. Moreover, EU clients are now fully served under its authorized CASP licence. The
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Task Force has received two new written submissions to its public input page, which have once again highlighted important issues in digital asset regulation, such as self-custody rights and the regulatory status of decentralised finance (DeFi). One of the proposals, from a
Grayscale Investments has made a substantial step forward in expanding institutional investor accessibility to alternative blockchain assets with its submission of a Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to convert its Grayscale Near Trust into a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). Filed on January 20, 2026,
Looking back from early 2026, the main battlefield of L1 competition is shifting. In the past, the race was about TPS, fees, and ecosystem hype. Now, institutions care far more about whether a chain can carry real capital flows—and whether, when things go wrong, the system has controllable boundaries like
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Both Spot Bitcoin ETF and Spot Ethereum ETF recorded inflows for the third consecutive day this week. The crypto market is recovering, and ETF inflows seem to be a reflection of the same. This development comes despite fewer chances for the US Federal Reserve to cut rates and a recent
