The first three months of 2025 have certainly been a blur for the fledgling cryptocurrency industry. Though investors have experienced the heights of this new extreme volatility, with Bitcoin achieving multiple new all-time highs only to succumb to a harsh retracement. Ethereum, the second largest by market capitalization, wiped out...
The crypto world feasts on drama, and the recent CZ-Dingaling saga was a delicious crumpet of clickbait theatre. CZ, the head honcho at Binance, publicly accused Dingaling, a prominent NFT whale, of being a former Binance employee fired for insider trading and a "fake CRO." Dingaling's response? Crickets. This silence,...
The world of crypto is ever-changing. To get a competitive edge, you need to understand the tech and the law that underpins it. In recent months there’s been a dramatic change in the tone of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with respect to regulating crypto. This change has large...
The SEC, which has for years occupied a intimidating presence over the cryptocurrency landscape, appears to be…easing up? When the courts gave their ruling OpenSea, a company whose name has become shorthand both for the NFT craze (and crash) that ensued, even exhaled. We’ve watched as joke cases have been...
Now, the European Union financial watchdogs are looking at OKX with beady eyes. They are probing the platform for its possible role in laundering stolen money related to the $1.4 billion Bybit hack that occurred in February. This criminal investigation and these allegations first came to the public’s attention in...
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer's recent comments about the SEC's "unfair targeting" of crypto firms under Gary Gensler struck a chord. It wasn’t only about OpenSea. It was about the chilling effect that regulatory overreach had on the entire industry. We’re talking about personal harm, and it’s so important to know...
The world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has been on quite a ride, from meteoric rise to growing regulatory and legal concern. Even OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, recently drew the ire of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This opened the floodgates to a passionate discussion on whether and how...