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The IRS, alongside many other regulators, has been pretty active in the crypto world over recent years. On Friday, two directors left. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government …
The IRS lost two key directors working on crypto initiatives, Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee, on Friday after they accepted deferred resignation offers directed by the Department of Government Efficiency. Wilks and Mukherjee, who both went to the IRS …
NEW YORK, NY — Mango Markets exploiter Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, who stole $110 million from the now-defunct decentralized finance protocol in 2022, was sentenced to 52 months in prison on Thursday — on his guilty plea to possession of child sexual …
A financial deal was supposed to help launch the MOVE crypto token.Instead, it led to a token-dumping scandal, a Binance ban, and behind-the-scenes infighting. Contracts obtained by CoinDesk help explain where it all went wrong. Movement, the …
What one hour ago was looking like another positive day in markets has turned decidedly negative as the latest economic veri fueled growing stagflation fears. First up was ADP jobs numbers for April. Coming two days ahead of the government’s own …
A financial deal was supposed to help launch the MOVE crypto token.Instead, it led to a token-dumping scandal, a Binance ban, and behind-the-scenes infighting. Contracts obtained by CoinDesk help explain where it all went wrong. Movement, the …
Paul Atkins’ first public event as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was a crypto roundtable on Friday, where the new agency chief devoted his inaugural speech to assuring the industry that he’ll continue to remake securities …
TAO, the native token of AI-focused blockchain Bittensor, has been causing tension on X between Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert and staunch supporters of bitcoin (BTC), the original and largest cryptocurrency. Author and bitcoin …
Richard Kim, the founder of crypto casino Zero Edge, was arrested on Tuesday following allegations that he had gambled away investors’ funds. According to an FBI complaint filed on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, Kim “fraudulently …
Crypto traders were reminded of Terra’s LUNA early Monday as trendy real-world asset upstart Mantra’s OM token dropped 90% within hours on no sudden catalyst — with conspiracy theories and allegations running abound among crypto circles. OM plunged …