Lawsuit News
Legal battles continue to shape the crypto space, with lawsuit news tracking key cases involving exchanges, regulators, and blockchain companies. From investor class actions to SEC enforcement actions, lawsuits impact token listings, compliance requirements, and market sentiment. As crypto matures, legal clarity remains a crucial issue for global adoption.
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BitMEX has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit in the United States accusing the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange of engineering customer liquidations that allegedly allowed it to retain hundreds of Bitcoin before its planned September shutdown. Court filings in…
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The Digital Chamber has challenged Illinois’ new 0.2% digital asset transaction tax in court, arguing that the law unfairly targets blockchain-based commerce and violates constitutional protections. According to a complaint filed Tuesday in an Illinois circuit court, crypto trade association…
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XRP Victory Day marks 3 years since Ripple’s partial U.S. SEC win, while its $125 million penalty and institutional-sales injunction remain.
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Noah Doe’s Bitcoin ownership lawsuit loses 44 wallets after on-chain moves challenge abandoned-property claims over Satoshi-era BTC.
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Solmate shares have fallen 98% after its Solana treasury pivot, as RBCH sues directors over alleged self-dealing before the AGM vote.
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Michael Saylor has faced renewed legal pressure after a shareholder rights firm opened an investigation into Strategy, adding to mounting scrutiny that has accompanied the company’s sharp stock decline and Bitcoin’s latest selloff. According to Rosen Law Firm, the investigation…
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Kalshi has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law that would require prediction market platforms offering sports event contracts to obtain state licenses before operating. According to a filing submitted Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the…
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Kalshi has entered talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of about $40 billion, an 82% jump from the $22 billion valuation it secured less than two months ago. According to a Financial Times report citing people familiar with…
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CME CFTC lawsuit perpetual futures fight asks whether perps are futures or swaps, deciding who controls crypto’s biggest market.
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Investors who sued Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks over their promotion of Voyager Digital have appealed a federal court decision that dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds. A notice filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Securitize sued tZERO in Delaware after patent claims over tokenized securities as Wall Street interest in tokenization keeps growing.
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Attorney Ian R. Cohen has filed a new court rebuttal opposing efforts to revive a lawsuit that seeks control of roughly 3.8 million Bitcoin worth an estimated $238 billion, including wallets linked to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. According to a…
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Jake Chervinsky has accused CME Group of using a lawsuit against U.S. crypto perpetual futures to protect its position in a market where the exchange reportedly controls about 92% of exchange-traded derivatives volume. According to Jake Chervinsky, chief executive of…
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Peter Schiff has accused Michael Saylor of misleading investors in Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, as the security has fallen roughly 15% below its $100 par value. In a series of X posts on June 18, the longtime Bitcoin critic argued…
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CME Group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission after the regulator approved crypto perpetual futures that have already generated more than $1 billion in trading volume. According to Bloomberg, the derivatives exchange sued the CFTC…
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Australia’s High Court has unanimously ruled 7-0 in favor of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, finding that Block Earner’s former fixed-yield crypto product required a financial services licence under existing law. According to a June 17 court document, the…