Cheyenne Ligon

On the news team at CoinDesk, Cheyenne focuses on crypto regulation and crime. Cheyenne is originally from Houston, Texas. She studied political science at Tulane University in Louisiana. In December 2021, she graduated from CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on business and economics reporting. She has no significant crypto holdings.

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Swiss Regulator Shutters Crypto-Linked FlowBank, Begins Bankruptcy Process

FINMA announced Thursday that FlowBank’s minimum capital requirements were found to have been “significantly and seriously breached.”

View of Zug, Switzerland, from the lake, with mountains in background. (Louis Droege/Unsplash)

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Terraform Labs, Do Kwon Agree to Pay SEC a Combined $4.5B in Civil Fraud Case

The settlement agreement, if accepted by a judge, would also ban Kwon and Terraform Labs from buying or selling all crypto asset securities.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV)

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New York AG Pushes Back Against DCG, Silbert’s Motion to Dismiss Fraud Case

NYAG has accused Gemini, Genesis, and DCG of conspiring to cover a $1 billion hole in Genesis’ balance sheet caused by the implosion of Three Arrows Capital.

DCG CEO Barry Silbert (CoinDesk archives)

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Former Federal Prosecutors, Agents Ask U.S. Sec. Blinken to ‘Step Up’ Efforts to Secure Detained Binance Exec’s Release

Investor Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor, reportedly spearheaded the letter to Blinken

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

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Saudi Arabia Joins BIS’ CBDC Project mBridge as a Full Participant

The Saudi Central Bank joins the central banks of China, Thailand, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates in the project.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)

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NYAG Sues 2 Crypto Pyramid Schemes, Promoters Targeting Haitian-Americans in $1B Scam

NovaTech’s founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion allegedly preyed on Creole-speaking church-goers and advertised their scheme as a way to gain “freedom from the plantation.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud Conspiracy Tied to Forcount Crypto Ponzi

Juan Tacuri, 46, faces up to 20 years in prison for his crime.

SDNY Courthouse 40 Centre Street

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Dapper Labs Agrees to $4M Settlement in Class Action Securities Suit

The settlement must still be approved by a New York court.

Dapper Labs Agrees to $4M Settlement in Class Action Securities Suit (Shutterstock)

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Former Binance CEO CZ Begins 4-Month Prison Sentence in California

Lompoc II, the California prison where CZ will serve his sentence, is a low-security facility.

(Photos from Smorshedi/Wikimedia Commons and CoinDesk/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

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U.S. Treasury Isn’t Trying to Ban Crypto Mixers, Top Official Says

FinCEN’s 2023 proposal to require crypto companies to report transactions that involved mixing is about transparency, not banning mixers, said Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury undersecretary.

Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury, at Consensus 2024. (CoinDesk/Shutterstock)