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Shareholder Sues Crypto Mining Firm Over Unrealistic Pre-IPO Claims
6.2.2024
A shareholder sued crypto mining firm Stronghold’s senior officials, claiming that they made impractical pre-IPO pledges. Glenn Bruno’s Friday complaint targets Stronghold’s officers and directors for alleged legal violations between July 2021 to March 2022. The violations include breaches...
Binance Sued by Families of Hamas Victims, Hostages
1.2.2024
The plaintiffs, who are also suing Iran and Syria, say the crypto exchange facilitated the financing of Hamas and other terrorist groups between 2017 and 2023
PUBG Publisher Sued For Sexual Assault, Wrongful Termination
26.1.2024
PUBG publisher Krafton Inc. has been named in a wrongful termination and sexual assault lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles on December 7, 2023 by a 31-year-old unnamed former employee who alleges she was fired shortly after reporting the incident to upper management at the company.Read more
Coinbase Holds First Court Faceoff With SEC: Here’s What You Need To Know
17.1.2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is meeting Coinbase today in federal court, with both parties presenting their first oral arguments amid their industry-defining lawsuit. Back in June, the market regulator sued Coinbase for listing a handful of “crypto-asset securities”...
Why Printers Suck #247: HP's Getting Sued Yet Again
15.1.2024
Whether there’s an omnipotent God or not, he or she definitely exists and hates printers. Like Bluetooth, printers are against God’s wishes, violating universal laws on such a level that they must be forced not to work in ever-more impossibly unlikely ways. As such, the people who make them...
Soccer Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo Sued for Promoting Binance Crypto Exchange – Here’s the Latest
29.11.2023
Image Source: Pixabay Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit for promoting crypto exchange Binance. The lawsuit, filed on November 27 in a United States district court in Florida, asserts that Ronaldo played a role in the sale of unregistered securities...
Cristiano Ronaldo sued for promoting Binance, unregistered securities
29.11.2023
The soccer star’s Binance-tied NFTs allegedly promoted investments in unregistered securities on the crypto exchange
FTX users name Mercedes F1 team and MLB in new promo lawsuits
28.11.2023
The group of FTX users is taking aim at Mercedes F1 and Major League Baseball for allegedly helping FTX commit fraud by promoting the crypto exchange on its platforms
The Protocol: CZ's out, Altman's in, and Kraken's Sued
22.11.2023
In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we share a few trends stand out to close 2023: the proliferation of Ethereum layer-2 networks, the ascendancy of zero-knowledge cryptography and the appearance of tokens, smart contracts and now file hosting on the Bitcoin blockchain
OpenAI and Microsoft sued over alleged unauthorized use of authors’ work
22.11.2023
Julian Sancton, an author and Hollywood reporter, accuses Microsoft of being aware of OpenAI’s indiscriminate internet crawling for copyrighted material
Crypto Regulation News Weekly Digest: SEC Sues Kraken and IOSCO Issues Crucial Crypto Regulations
21.11.2023
  Multiple countries advanced cryptocurrency oversight last week through legal actions, guidance, and policy initiatives. Image by RareStock, Adobe Stock. The past week brought several new major developments on the crypto regulation front. The SEC sued a major crypto exchange, IOSCO developed...
Tether’s bank partner Britannia sued over $1B deposit — Report
21.11.2023
Tether’s bank partner Britannia is reportedly facing a lawsuit over claims it failed to pay the full price of revenue-generating assets allegedly related to a deposit from Tether
SEC Sues Kraken: Crypto Exchange Plans to ‘Vigorously Defend’ Its Position in Court
21.11.2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued cryptocurrency exchange Kraken for the second time this year, alleging that the crypto trading platform operates as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency. Kraken disagreed with the securities...
Kraken co-founder slams ‘decel’ SEC, warns others should flee US
21.11.2023
Jesse Powell didn’t mince words when he criticized the SEC for suing his exchange, calling it the country’s “top decel.”
Apple sued for blocking crypto tech for P2P payments
21.11.2023
Apple faces a class action over alleged anti-competitive conduct in the iOS peer-to-peer payments market
SEC sues Kraken alleging it violated securities laws
20.11.2023
The SEC alleged Kraken operated as an unregistered exchange, broker, dealer and clearing agency
OpenAI promises to fund legal costs for ChatGPT users sued over copyright
7.11.2023
OpenAI joins Google, Microsoft and others in legally backing their users if they face legal action over copyright infringement
Ethereum Co-Founder, Consensys Sued By Early Employees Over Alleged Equity Promises
20.10.2023
More than two dozen early employees of the blockchain software company Consensys have filed a lawsuit against Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys, and other parties. The plaintiffs allege Lubin broke contractual promises related to equity compensation made when the employees joined...
New York Attorney General sues Gemini, Genesis, DGC for allegedly defrauding investors
19.10.2023
A filing from New York attorney general Letitia James alleges that the cryptocurrency companies defrauded investors of over $1 billion
Gemini, Genesis, DCG Sued by New York Attorney General for Allegedly Defrauding Investors
19.10.2023
The lawsuit alleges that Gemini knew Genesis’ loans were undersecured and at one point highly concentrated with one entity, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda, but did not reveal this information to investors