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A federal court in California sentenced Adam Iza to 78 months in prison for fraud, tax evasion, and misuse of services provided by former LASD sheriff’s deputies. The sentence will run concurrently with his earlier 15-year sentence in Connecticut.
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance published nonbinding answers on staking tokens, marketing, buybacks and secondary trading platforms.
The U.S. CFTC has issued an advance request for comments on possible rules for certain retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets. These are not yet final rules or immediate new requirements.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against three people and two organizations in connection with alleged Hamas financing through fundraising campaigns and cryptocurrency transfers.
According to multiple media reports, the OKXICE joint venture published a notice regarding a planned platform for round-the-clock trading of tokenized U.S. stocks. However, this is neither an individual SEC approval nor a confirmed service launch.
The SEC approved Cboe BZX’s proposal to list six VS Trust products, including funds offering three-times-daily exposure to bitcoin and ether futures.
NEAR Intents announced that the entire stolen amount of approximately $3.8 million was returned after the exploit. However, the incident’s complete technical details and the identity of the responsible person are not publicly known yet.
The U.S. SEC approved a Cboe BZX rule change to list six 3x leveraged ETPs from VS Trust. The Bitcoin and ether products are expected to use futures rather than directly hold cryptocurrencies.
The community banking association ICBA has challenged in federal court the OCC’s authority to grant national trust charters to crypto firms and other nontraditional entities.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated A7 Network as a significant transnational criminal organization. FinCEN also proposed a rule targeting transfers involving the network’s subagents.