The U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly looking to implement global industry standards in crypto regulation. CFTC Commissioner Carline Pham has indicated that she was ...
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CFTC commissioner calls for global industry standards in crypto regulation
Caroline Pham, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, has recently called on regulators to provide clearer guidance on crypto assets in 2023. In an interview with Bloomberg, Ph...
CFTC boss calls for uniformed crypto regulations worldwide – Cryptopolitan
Commissioner of the CFTC Caroline Pham has urged regulators in the crypto space worldwide to provide clearer guidelines for assets in the crypto sector. At an interview, the CFTC boss said that the or...
CFTC Calls for Global Standards for Crypto Regulation
The commissioner of the CFTC, Caroline Pham, recently gave an interview in which she said that there are advanced discussions and meetings regarding global crypto standards happening outside of the U....
CFTC commissioner says foreign discussions over crypto standards are underway
CFTC commissioner Caroline Pham stated that multiple countries are discussing global crypto regulations during an interview with Bloomberg on Jan. 17. Pham said that she has recently met with several ...
CoinFund president Chris Perkins appointed to CFTC GMAC
Chris Perkins, the president and managing director of CoinFund is now a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Perkins’ appoint...
Default Judgment against Ooki DAO: CFTC Calls for It
Ooki DAO had been charged with violating federal commodities law. Sued by CFTC last year on two accounts, DAO failed to respond on January 10, 2023. The case has been running since last year. There ...
Ooki DAO ghosting CFTC lawsuit could see it lose the case
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested that a federal judge impose a default judgement against Ooki DAO after it failed to respond to a lawsuit that alleged it violated federal ...
Avi Eisenberg Faces More Charges — This Time From the CFTC
In the latest twist in the case against Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, the CFTC has charged the former star DeFi trader. Legal actions against Eisenberg, who, by his own admission, participated in an attack...
CFTC Charges Man Behind $100,000,000 Attack on Solana-Based Trading Platform With Market Manipulation
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed market manipulation charges against the man behind the $100 million exploit of Mango Markets, a Solana (SOL)-based decentralized finance ...
Crypto Twitter Celebrates CFTC Charging Mango Markets Hacker
Crypto Twitter praises CFTC for protecting crypto traders from Mango Markets fraud. CFTC accused Avraham Eisenberg of manipulating the Mango Markets exchange and stealing funds. Also, CFTC is seeking ...
CFTC sues Avraham Eisenberg for Mango market manipulation
A self-described digital artist by the name of Avraham Eisenberg was charged with two counts of market manipulation in connection with an exploit of a decentralized finance platform known as Mango Mar...
CFTC files suit against Avraham Eisenberg for market manipulation in Mango exploit
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against self-described digital artist Avraham Eisenberg on Jan. 9, charging him with two counts of market manipulation in conne...
CFTC Sues Crypto Trader Over Alleged Mango Markets Scam
The Mango Markets exploit, which was just one of the number of hacked and exploited dApps last year, was a remarkable one. The exploit led to roughly $114 million lost from the decentralized digital-a...
CFTC Files Charges Against the Mango Markets $110M Exploiter
Eisenberg led off the deceptive manipulation of Mango Markets’ assets on October 11, 2022. $47 million worth of assets is still in the exploiter’s custody as a bug bounty. The Commodity Futures Tradin...
Mango Markets exploiter faces new set of charges from the CFTC
Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg is facing one more set of charges, as outlined in a complaint filed by the CFTC on Jan. 9. In that complaint, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ...
The Block: SEC also investigating Mango exploiter Eisenberg: CFTC Commissioner
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is also investigating self-confessed Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg over his role in extracting $110 million from the decentralized protocol. &#...
CFTC Charges Mango Markets Exploiter With Market Manipulation
The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg with violating federal commodities laws during his $110 million manipulation attack in Octob...
CFTC files its own case against Mango Markets exploiter
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing Avraham Eisenberg, aka Mango Avi, over alleged manipulation of swaps on Mango Markets, a decentralized exchange on the Solana blockchain. The n...
Senator who spearheaded SBF-backed crypto bill to retire
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., will not seek reelection in 2024. “Inspired by a new generation of leaders, I have decided to pass the torch,” she said in an announcement, with plans to se...
Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Executives Met With CFTC Commissioner for Dinner in October 2021: Report
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly dined with a member of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the same federal agency he sought to have regulate the crypto industry, sh...
The U.S. Attorney, SEC and CFTC on SBF and his Former Allies
Two of the former allies of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) countered him. As the former Alameda Research CEO, Caroline Ellison and the Co-Founder of FTX, Gary Wang, pleaded guilty to criminal charges. These ...
CFTC classifies Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tether as commodities
Based on recent FTX court filings, reports on Thursday show that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has designated Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), and US Dollar Tether (USDT) as commoditie...
Alameda CEO Caroline, FTX Co-Founder Plead Guilty, CFTC, SEC Charges
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang have pleaded guilty to criminal charges by the US Southern District of New York on early Thursday. The U.S. Securities and Exc...
Alameda’s Caroline Ellison, FTX’s Gary Wang Plead Guilty to DOJ ‘Fraud’ Charges, Also Settle With SEC, CFTC
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang pleaded guilty to charges tied to FTX’s collapse, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday night. The U.S. Secu...
Ban Crypto? Why Senate Banking Chief Suggests SEC And CFTC Should Do So
Crypto is at the crosshair of a U.S. lawmaker – and it’s not surprising. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Chairman of United States Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, suggested on December 18 that fede...
BTC, ETH, and USDT are Commodities: CFTC in the Complaint Against FTX.
CFTC is considering listing BTC, ETH and USDT as commodities. Gary Gensler had been advocating for BTC to be treated as a commodity. If these three are classified as commodities, they shall be regula...
Key financial regulators call for stronger licensing of crypto firms
Several key financial regulators in the U.S. cited issues with cryptocurrency firms and called for stricter licensing at a Friday meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a committee of U...
CFTC Says Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether Are Commodities in Fraud Complaint Against FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is listing three crypto assets that it considers to be commodities. In a fraud complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern...
FTX used ‘weird Korean account’ to mask Alameda liabilities, CFTC says
Former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried directed company executives to reallocate Alameda Research’s large liability with the exchange to “the weird Korean account” to mask its liability...
Alameda had ‘unfair’ trading advantage, special access to FTX funds: CFTC filing
Court filings continue to shed light on the dubious relationship between FTX and Alameda Research, in which the hedge fund was afforded an “unfair” trading advantage as well as unprecedented access to...