US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is revealing that it received thousands of requests from law enforcement and government agencies this year. Coinbase says in a new transparency report that requests f...
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Coinbase Study Reveals Global Law Enforcement Inquiries Skyrocket
The cryptocurrency exchange has claimed that the total number of queries has increased by 66 percent, with the United States contributing to the rise of inquiries by a significant margin; the United...
Coinbase’s law enforcement requests rose 66% in 2022
Coinbase, in its fourth transparency report, revealed that there had been 12,320 requests from law enforcement authorities, a 66% increase within the period of Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022. Sp...
Coinbase report shows dramatic increase in law enforcement enquiries worldwide
Coinbase has seen information requests from law enforcement surge over the past year, the cryptocurrency exchange reported in its latest transparency report. The vast majority of the enquiries came fr...
Coinbase Says Law Enforcement Requests Rose 66% From Year Ago
The highest volume of law enforcement and agency requests from a single country came from the U.S., with 5,304, while the second-most number of requests came from the U.K. with 1,744, the report said....
Alameda’s Caroline Ellison Retains SEC’s Former Enforcement Division Chief – Bitcoin News
After more attention has been cast on the former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, a report details that Ellison has hired Wilmerhale partner Stephanie Avakian, an attorney that worked for the U....
Coinbase law enforcement requests jumped 66% over the past year
Coinbase received 12,320 law enforcement requests for the year through Sept. 30, a 66% increase. The majority, 43%, of requests came from the U.S., followed by the UK, Germany and Spain, accordi...
Magic Eden follows OpenSea with NFT royalty enforcement tool
Magic Eden, a Solana-based nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has become the latest platform to release a tool allowing creators to enforce royalties on their collections. It follows the announcemen...
“Regulation By Enforcement” By The SEC Caused BlockFi’s Collapse, Asserts Ripple’s General Counsel ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Stuart Alderoty, Ripple’s General counsel has slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission “SEC” for its alleged role in bringing BlockFi to i...
Ripple general counsel calls BlockFi bankruptcy another success for SEC’s ‘regulation by enforcement’ approach
Ripple general counsel Stuart Alderoty described BlockFi’s bankruptcy as another success for the U.S. SEC and its regulation-by-enforcement approach. Another SEC “regulation by enforcement” success st...
SEC Enforcement Remains Focused on Crypto — Chair Gensler Says He’s ‘Impressed’ With Enforcement Results – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says its Enforcement Division “remains focused on the rapidly evolving crypto asset securities space.” The securities regulator filed 760 enforcement ...
US Law Enforcement Directs Paxos to Freeze More Than 11,000 PAXG Tokenized Gold Coins – Bitcoin News
According to the blockchain infrastructure company Paxos, the firm has frozen 11,184.38 pax gold (PAXG) tokens held on the platform FTX.com. The regulated token issuer noted that it was directed to fr...
Paxos freezes assets tied to FTX after law enforcement directive
U.S. law enforcement officials directed Paxos on Saturday to freeze assets previously held on FTX. Paxos, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, froze 11,184.38 PAXG tokens valued at ro...
India’s Enforcement Directorate Freezes $2.5M More Crypto in Gaming App E-Nuggets Case
The investigation relates to a February 2021 complaint filed by regulators in India’s eastern city of Kolkata against Aamir Khan, the app’s creator, and others. The agency alleges that Kha...
US Senator Says Crypto Needs ‘More Aggressive Enforcement’ — ‘I’m Going to Keep Pushing SEC to Enforce the Law’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren says the implosion of crypto exchange FTX shows that the crypto industry needs “more aggressive enforcement.” She stressed: “I’m going to keep pushing SEC to enforce the ...
OpenSea to Introduce Enforcement Tool, NFT Creators will Receive Higher Royalties – crypto.news
OpenSea marketplace broke the silence with a tweet on its approach to NFT royalties as the $13.3 billion startup finally made its move on Saturday night. Many well-known Web3 developers aren’t pleased...
OpenSea launches on-chain tool for enforcement of NFT royalties
OpenSea, the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that continues to take the initiative to have creators earn royalties on secondary sales as competitors take a different outlook, has announce...
OpenSea empowers on-chain enforcement of new NFT creator fees
The year 2018 brought a new space for artists to flourish financially. Non-fungible tokens proved to be an effective way to reach out to everyone across the globe and sell a digital piece of art. Howe...
Do Kwon wants conference with law enforcement; pressure on miners to rise after excepted upcoming difficulty spike
The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Nov. 4 includes Bitcoin’s outperformance of Nasdaq after the Fed raised interest rates, Do Kwon’s invitation to all law enforcement in the world to join an onli...
4 Years After the 2017 Law Enforcement Takedown, Alphabay Is Once Again the King of Darknet Markets – Bitcoin News
Following the demise of the largest darknet marketplace (DNM) in mid-July 2017, the underground market Alphabay returned in August 2021, and during the last year, Alphabay has managed to once again re...
SEC chair highlights crypto enforcement cases to legal experts
United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler cited major enforcement actions against crypto firms as part of the “economic realities” of securities regulation. In written remark...
Find Here, How Federal Law Enforcement Define Crypto Regulation
The Federal Law Enforcement depicted the vital role in developing digital asset regulatory guidance. It explained that its enforcement efforts are battling the abuse of digital assets. The Federal Law...
UK police council reports there are officers in every unit trained for crypto enforcement
The detective chief superintendent for the United Kingdom’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), Andy Gould, has said all police forces in the country have officers trained for investigations invol...
Two Chinese Agents Charged for Bribing US Law Enforcement Officer with Bitcoin
The US has charged two Chinese nationalists with obstruction of justice by bribing a US government employee with $61,0000 in bitcoin. According to the statement from the Department of Justice, these t...
OSCE Trains Uzbekistan Law Enforcement to Track and Seize Crypto, Search Dark Web – Bitcoin News
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has set out to teach law enforcement officers in Uzbekistan how to conduct crypto and dark web investigations. The regional body recentl...