The CFTC ordered Kalshi to keep its prediction markets running in New York after the state sued to bar them as illegal gambling, invoking emergency authority the agency says protects its exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts.
Federal regulators filed parallel SEC and CFTC civil actions against Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from roughly 1,600 customers.
A breakaway Bitcoin fork built around the BIP-110 anti-spam proposal mined just two blocks before stalling, drawing only about 2.53% of network hashpower and exposing divisions among miners over how to handle non-financial transactions.
The Senate left for August recess without clearing the CLARITY Act, pushing a procedural vote to September even as bitcoin held above $65,000 and a former defense secretary framed the bill as a national-security measure.
SDNY prosecutors say Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha spent investor token money on gambling, trading losses and a DJ career rather than building the NFT marketplace he pitched.
Federal prosecutors charged Taj Tarsha, the 34-year-old founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far, with securities fraud and wire fraud.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and permits domestic retail trading for the first time.
Six Ethereum researchers, Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation among them, want to burn a growing slice of validator rewards as more ETH gets staked.
