Nikhil Wahi, brother of former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi, pleaded guilty in a Monday hearing to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with an alleged insider trading sch...
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Ex-Coinbase Manager’s Brother Pleads Guilty To Insider Trading Charge
Insider trading charges have started to hit the crypto markets. Easily the biggest story yet in this topic came in recent months, with the indictment of former OpenSea head of product, Nate Chastain. ...
Brother Of Ex-Coinbase Manager Pleads Guilty In First-Ever Crypto Insider Trading Case
Topline A defendant in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading cases pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge Monday and faces a prison sentence between 10 to 16 months, in a historic pl...
A Suspiciously Positive Insider Look At Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Academy
The Bitcoin Academy wasn’t as well received as it should’ve been. The organization needs good press and got it. The Business Insider article “How Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Academy provides finan...
Coinbase employee accused Cobie of spreading insider trading claim because of FTX
Coinbase employee Pete Kim has accused prominent crypto influencer Cobie of spreading insider trading claims against Coinbase because of his partnership deal with FTX. Cobie said that FTX’s sponsorsh...
Powers On… Insider trading with crypto is targeted — Finally! Part 1 – Cointelegraph Magazine
It took a few years, but government crackdowns on “insider trading” involving digital assets have finally arrived. It’s about time! Insider trading occurs often in our securities markets, so it was on...
Crypto Exchange CTO Fined $230k For Insider Trading
Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not taking any fraudulent acts in the cryptocurrency industry lightly. In a recent highlight of events, the Thai SEC fined the Chief Technology Off...
Bitkub CTO Committed Insider Trading – Thai SEC
Thailand’s SEC announced enforcement actions against Bitkub KUB Price at the time of writing – $1.27 Wajanasathian still has to sign a memorandum of consent – Thai SEC Thailand’s Securities and Excha...
Thai SEC Fines Bitkub CTO $200,000 for Insider Trading
The Chief Technology Officer of Thai crypto exchange Bitkub has been fined for insider trading, the country’s securities regulator has said. Samrong Wachanasathien was ordered to pay a fine of around ...
Thai SEC alleges Bitkub CTO committed insider trading
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, announced enforcement actions against the chief technology officer of crypto exchange Bitkub, who allegedly used insider information around the p...
BitKub CTO Fined by Thai SEC For Insider Trading Offenses
Samret Wajanasathian, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BitKub, has been fined by the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a rare insider trading case in the local cryptocurrency ecosy...
Thailand SEC Charges Bitkub Exchange’s CTO of Insider Trading
5 hours ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Bitkub’s CTO Samret Wajanasathian was penalized 8,530,383 baht (about $234,000). The announcement caused a 101% increase in the price of KUB. Enforcement proced...
Thai SEC Fines Bitkub Executive $235K for Insider Trading
The insider-trading case stems from an incident from last November, when the SCB acquisition plan was first announced. According to the SEC, Wajanasathian – armed with this information – bought 1.99 m...
Ex-OpenSea Exec Argues NFTs Are Not Securities to Dismiss Insider Trading Charges
Lawyers for former OpenSea product manager Nate Chastain have filed a motion to dismiss the insider trading charges against the ousted NFT marketplace employee. Filed Friday, the motion argues that NF...
OpenSea insider trading case could increase government power
Nathaniel Chastain, formerly of OpenSea, has filed a motion to dismiss the indictment filed against him for insider trading. Chastain had been charged with wire fraud and money laundering related to...
Former OpenSea exec claims insider trading laws cannot apply to NFTs
Former OpenSea sea executive Nate Chastain has filed a motion asking a U.S. district court to dismiss insider trading charges levied against him because non-fungible tokens (NFTs) do not meet the req...
OpenSea Files Motion to Dismiss Case Alleging NFT Insider Trading Activity
The Lawyers representing OpenSea’s former product head Nate Chastain said that the NFTs don’t fall in the category of either securities or commodities. Thus, wire fraud charges aren’t applicable to th...
Former OpenSea Executive Seeks Dismissal of Insider Trading Charges
Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea executive, has submitted a filing calling for the dismissal of charges because he claims NFTs are not securities or commodities, among other reasons. Former OpenSe...
Former OpenSea Staff Asks Court to Withdraw Insider Trading Charges
Following the indictment of Nathaniel Chastain, a former Head of Product at the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace, OpenSea, a new petition has now been filed by his lawyers, requesting the court to...
OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Files Motion to Drop Insider Trading Charges
Former OpenSea employee Nate Chastain has filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against him regarding an alleged insider trading scheme, stating that the charges by the United States government wer...
OpenSea Ex-Employee Asks Court to Dismiss Insider Trading Case
Former OpenSea product manager Nate Chastain was indicted by the DoJ in June on two charges of wire fraud and money laundering related to insider NFT trading Chastain’s lawyers are arguing NFTs don’t ...
Former OpenSea employee accused of insider trading files motion to dismiss indictment
Lawyers for former OpenSea head of product Nathaniel Chastain filed a motion to dismiss an indictment against him, according to court documents. Chastain was indicted by a grand jury on wire fraud and...
Coinbase and insider trading cases
The case of three former Coinbase managers charged by the SEC with insider trading. SEC uncovers more insider trading cases in Coinbase issue Cases of insider trading accumulate within the Coinbase t...
Coinbase Employee Arrested for Insider Trading
A former Coinbase employee and two of his comrades have been arrested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) following reports that the employee had conducted insider trading and passed along confidential...
Australian Researchers Claim Insider Trading At Coinbase
Crypto Exchange Coinbase recently reported a $1 Billion Loss in Q2. Coinbase’s revenue tanked more than 64% during quarter-two year-over-year amidst the crypto market collapse. The retail transactions...
New Research Claims Insider Trading At Coinbase
Three researchers from Sydney Australia, Ester Félez-Viñas, Luke Johnson and Tālis J. Putniņš, have alleged that Insider trading occurs in 10-25% of cryptocurrency listings in a research paper called ...
Coinbase Insider Traders Profit $1.5M Since 2018: Academic Study
Numerous tokens saw prices begin rising 250 hours before Coinbase listings, academics found “Our findings identify cases that are yet to be prosecuted,” academics at the University of Technology Sydne...
Crypto Marketplace Alleges $350K Stolen by Insider ‘Gabagool’
The team has severed ties with the attacker following the theft The employee, the company said, fessed up, saying he was mentally affected by losing money in the crypto crash A crypto liquidity market...
Do Kwon Says Terra’s Collapse Probably Had an Insider
The fall of the fourth largest cryptocurrency began with an unannounced transfer of funds between trading pools on the night of May 7. It left the Curve pool with an imbalance on the side of Luna. Thi...
Crypto Insider Christopher Emms Details North Korean Conference
Emms traveled to North Korea’s blockchain conference alongside Virgil Griffith in 2019 The US wants to extradite him but has yet to provide supporting evidence Christopher Emms, a veteran crypto insid...