The U.S. Senate is set to vote on September 15 on a procedural step for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. This is not yet final approval of the bill, while negotiations also focus on ethics rules for public officials.
The final text of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act includes specific ethical obligations for people with significant financial interests, a ban on listing certain assets, and powers for state attorneys general.
Singaporean citizen Malone Lam pleaded guilty in Washington to participating in a RICO conspiracy involving the theft and laundering of more than $245 million in cryptocurrency.
The U.S. regulator NHTSA has opened an Audit Query into Tesla Cybercab’s self-certification. It is reviewing the vehicle’s technical documentation for a design without permanently attached steering wheel and pedals.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $731 million in net inflows on September 3. Most of this amount went to BlackRock’s IBIT fund.
An incident involving Thomson Reuters’ C-Track system may have exposed sensitive court-record data in 12 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Ontario.
The U.S. has unsealed an indictment against Searzhudin Aktulajev. Prosecutors allege he was involved in a campaign involving malicious Excel attachments sent to users of an unnamed freelance platform.
Prediction exchange Kalshi suspended Republican candidate Laurie Buckhout’s access for three years and imposed a $2,589.96 penalty for trades related to her own candidacy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld that a federal provision cannot be applied in this specific case to the private possession alone of obscene AI images depicting nonexistent minors.
A federal court in California halted Pentagon measures against Anthropic. Judge Rita Lin called the government’s actions unconstitutional retaliation for the company’s protected speech.