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Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Jail as Justice Department Pushes for Incarceration

The department responded to the FTX founder's defense team, which argued that the DOJ was portraying him in a negative light.

Sam Bankman-Fried (left) exits a courthouse after a hearing on July 26, 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Figure Abandons Quest to be U.S. Chartered Crypto Bank After Three-Year Fight

Anchorage Digital stands alone as the only OCC-chartered crypto bank after other efforts have fizzled out or been withdrawn.

Figure Technologies CEO Mike Cagney (CoinDesk archives)

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SEC Charges 18 Utah Defendants in $50M Crypto Fraud Scheme

The defendants sold unregistered securities they called “node licenses” to unsuspecting investors, the SEC said.

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FTX Wants Dubai Unit Removed From U.S. Bankruptcy Proceedings

Liquidating FTX Dubai under UAE law would make way for the timely distribution of any outstanding liabilities, the bankrupt estate argued in court filings.

New FTX CEO John J. Ray III (C-Span)

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Hong Kong Officially Opens Crypto Trading to Retail Investors, Grants First Licenses to HashKey, OSL

OSL Digital Securities said retail investors can register to trade BTC and ETH effective immediately.

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

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eToro Sued by Australia's Market Regulator for Leveraged Product

ASIC alleges that eToro's target market was far too broad and its screening test was very difficult to fail.

Sydney, Australia (Photo by Johnny Bhalla/Unsplash)

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Is Sam Bankman-Fried Going to Jail?

Federal prosecutors are fed up with what they say are his repeated attempts to influence witness testimony. He maintains he’s just trying to defend his reputation.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Race for Ether Futures ETFs Kicks Off With 6 Firms Filing SEC Applications

Volatility Shares, Bitwise, VanEck, Roundhill, ProShares and Grayscale have filed applications with the SEC for Ether ETFs.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall

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G20 President India Publishes Its Input for Framing Global Crypto Rules

India's presidency note on crypto is an effort to have its suggestions included in the framing of global crypto rules.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

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U.S. DOJ Has 'Extremely Thin' Basis for Jailing FTX's Bankman-Fried Ahead of Trial: Defense

Prosecutors moved to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried's bond release, alleging his sharing Caroline Ellison's diary with the New York Times amounts to witness tampering.

Despite claims by right-wing political figures, Sam Bankman-Fried was definitely not a free man when he (right) exited a Manhattan courtroom on July 26, 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)