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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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A UK appellate judge has upheld a tribunal’s decision to strike out a key damages argument in the landmark BSV Claims Ltd v. Binance and Kraken class action, A UK appeals court has dismissed most of a $13.3 billion class…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency firm Unicoin Inc. and several of its top executives, accusing them of defrauding investors out of more than $100 million through misleading and unregistered securities offerings. According to…
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Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin have filed a lawsuit against Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation, alleging patent infringement. On May 20, 2025, the Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin, entities behind Bancor Protocol and the Bancor token BNT, announced the lawsuit against…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a motion seeking court approval for a settlement with Ripple Labs, even as one SEC commissioner opposes the move over investor protection concerns. According to the May 8 court SEC filing, both…
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Tower Research Capital, one of three “VIP” clients named in the 2023 lawsuit against Binance by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is ramping up its crypto market-making efforts. Tower Research Capital, one of three “VIP” clients named in the…
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FTX Trading Ltd. and the FTX Recovery Trust have filed lawsuits against NFT Stars Limited and KUROSEMI INC., the company behind the gaming platform Delysium, for failing to deliver tokens owed to the FTX estate. The action was announced in…
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Bitget is taking legal action against eight accounts involved in the manipulation of the VOXEL token, which led to an unusual price surge and market instability. The exchange’s head of Asia, Jiayin Xie, revealed in an Apr. 27 post on…
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Shaquille O’Neal has reached a proposed settlement with investors who sued him for promoting the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The terms remain confidential until a motion for preliminary approval is filed by the plaintiffs. The class-action lawsuit, filed in November…
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Alabama has dropped its enforcement action against Coinbase, marking a significant shift in the ongoing legal battles over crypto staking programs in the U.S. The announcement was made by Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, signaling that only five states…
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Matter Labs, the company behind Ethereum Layer-2 solution ZKsync, is facing a lawsuit from BANKEX. BANKEX, a now-defunct blockchain firm, is alleging intellectual property theft involving early Plasma technology. The complaint, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, accuses…
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Burwick Law, a New York-based firm, has raised legal concerns about Metaplex’s plan to transfer over 54,000 unclaimed SOL, worth roughly $7.3 million, into its DAO treasury. In an open letter shared on X on Apr. 22, the firm warned…
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Coinbase has obtained internal documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the agency’s investigation into Ethereum 2.0, following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer, announced on X that the SEC disclosed a…
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The Oregon Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Coinbase that echoes the SEC’s lawsuit from 2023. The lawsuit, just like the SEC’s prior suit, alleges that the cryptocurrency exchange operated as an unregistered securities platform and offered staking services without…
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Crypto wallet provider Phantom is facing a lawsuit after an alleged security flaw allowed hackers to steal over $500,000 worth of Wiener Doge memecoin tokens. The complaint, filed on Apr. 14 in New York by attorney Thomas Liam Murphy and…
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Tron founder Justin Sun took to X to continue accusing First Digital Trust, a Hong Kong-based crypto custodian and issuer of the FDUSD stablecoin, of orchestrating a $500 million embezzlement scheme. In a lengthy post on X, Sun continued his…
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The U.S. Department of Justice is disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, citing its ‘reckless strategy’ in prosecuting crypto firms in the previous administration. According to a recent report by Fortune, a four-page memo issued by U.S. Deputy Attorney General…
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