A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational”
Federal Judge Dismisses Class Action Lawsuit Accusing Tesla, Musk of Market Manipulation Involving Dogecoin Anan Ashraf / Benzinga : Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants To Bring Back Dogecoin As A Payment Optio...
US SEC filing: oilfield services company Halliburton says it has taken some systems offline after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained access
Washington, D.C. 20549 — FORM 8-K — CURRENT REPORT Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : US oil giant Halliburton confirms cyberattack behind systems shutdown Suzanne Downing / Must Read Alaska : Oil...
Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York's AG
Bans the Exchange From Crypto Lending in the State Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : New York recovers $50 mln for defrauded Gemini Earn crypto investors Mike Millard / DL News : New York recovers $50m for...
Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners
Plaintiff Texas Blockchain Council; Plaintiff Riot Platforms, Inc. … Milk Road : 🥛 Crypto's Weekly Recap 👀 Mike Millard / DL News : Mandatory survey of Bitcoin miners' power consumption halted by US E...
The US SEC rejects Coinbase's petition for formal digital asset rules, because the “existing securities regime appropriately governs crypto asset securities”
Exchange Responds by Taking the Regulator to Court Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel / crypto.news : SEC chair, lawmakers are ‘gaslighting,’ CryptoLaw founder says Maxwell Mutuma / CoinGape : Coinbase CEO Sees S...
Robinhood says the company paid ~$606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshals Service
On August 30, 2023, Robinhood Markets, Inc. (the “Company") entered … Mike Millard / DL News : Ripple opposes SEC request to appeal judge's XRP ruling, HashKey fund to invest in altcoins CNBC : Robinh...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Meta plans to shut down Novi, its digital wallet pilot, on September 1, 2022; users will no longer be able to add money to their accounts starting on July 21
The first half of the year was all about inflation … Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Meta to shut Novi cryptocurrency wallet in September Rhiannon Bevan / TheGamer : Meta Ends Its Crypto Experiment, Sup...
2TM, the parent company of Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, dismisses 80+ employees, or ~12% of its staff; 2TM was valued at $2.1B in July 2021
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Certora, a provider of security analysis tools for smart contract developers to detect mistakes before deploying code, raises a $36M Series B led by Jump Crypto
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