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U.S. federal courts have imposed about 83 years of prison terms on crypto company leaders since early 2024.
That total grew yesterday with Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon’s 15-year sentence tied to the TerraUSD and Luna collapse.
Kwon was sentenced in December 2025 after pleading guilty to two fraud charges. According to AP News, the judge went beyond prosecutors’ request.
Terra’s failure...
Oracle lost roughly $80 billion in market value on Dec. 11 when revenue missed expectations, and management hiked AI-related capex from $35 billion to about $50 billion, funded in part with rising debt.
The stock dropped up to 16%, dragging Nvidia, AMD, and the broader Nasdaq lower.
Reports framed the move as fanning “AI bubble” fears, with investors questioning whether the payoff from building...
The US Congress is closer than ever to defining federal rules for digital assets, yet the question of whether stablecoins can provide yield has slowed the process more than agency turf battles or token classification.
Notably, the House has already advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, outlining a path for certain tokens to move from securities regulation to CFTC oversight.
At the same...
Belarus expanded platform blocking in December, tightening access to exchanges and reinforcing a High-Tech Park perimeter for residents.
The move fits a wider access playbook across EMEA and APAC that now uses telecom blocklists, app-store removals, and KYC gates to shape who reaches the same BTC and USDT order books.
The practical result is a de facto return of capital controls in a digital...
Do Kwon faces sentencing in U.S. federal court on Dec. 11, 2025. Prosecutors sought a 12-year term and the defense asked for no more than five, with Judge Paul A. Engelmayer presiding and South Korea charges still pending.
The proceeding follows a June 2024 final judgment in the SEC’s civil case that imposed about $4.47 billion in disgorgement and penalties on Terraform and Kwon and imposed a...
More Bitcoin now sits outside exchanges, and courts cannot move those coins without keys.
That custody shift is colliding with family law. Exchange balances hover near multi-year lows at roughly 14–15% of circulating supply, about 2.7–2.8 million BTC.
The rest sits with institutions in vaulted custody or in personal wallets where a 12–24 word seed phrase confers control. In divorce, the legal...
The most unusual trend in the crypto market this month is not Bitcoin’s price action, but the mechanics of XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows.
For 18 consecutive trading sessions, the four products have absorbed steady demand, accumulating roughly $954 million in inflows without a single outflow since launch.
The streak stands out amid the volatile crypto market, where Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs...
BlackRock filed for a staking-enabled Ethereum (ETH) trust on Dec. 5, which reframes the question of what kind of risk stack institutional investors will accept.
The document outlines a structure that requires allocators to price three distinct failure modes simultaneously.
First, protocol-level slashing penalties can hit the trust’s vault account with no guarantee of full recovery.
Second, a...
Bitcoin pushed toward $95,000 in the hours before the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 18 meeting, then retreated to the $92,000 zone amid Jerome Powell’s confirmation of a mixed-to-bearish stance for 2026 and delicate on-chain structure.
The Fed delivered an expected quarter-point cut, bringing the target range to 4.25%-4.50%, but Chair Jerome Powell spent the press conference reminding markets that...
The Federal Reserve has delivered the quarter-point rate cut markets demanded, and Ethereum is responding exactly as the “smart money” anticipated.
While Bitcoin effectively shrugs off the news near $92,000, Ethereum is holding its pre-meeting gains above $3,300, validating the sharp rotation seen in the 24 hours leading up to the decision.
This cut itself was merely a formality, as it had...