Legal
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Sep 22, 2026
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US Prosecutors Probe Binance Over Iran Sanctions Three Years After Its $4.3 Billion Plea
The Manhattan US Attorney's Office and the DOJ Criminal Division are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed Iran-linked trades, nearly three years after the exchange's $4.316 billion guilty plea and compliance monitor.
AI
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Sep 22, 2026
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A New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down
A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.
Legal
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Sep 22, 2026
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Bastion Wins Conditional Federal Approval to Run Its Stablecoin Business as a National Trust Bank
The OCC granted Bastion preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank charter, pulling stablecoin custody, payments, and white-label issuance under one federally regulated entity.
Legal
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Sep 22, 2026
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Crypto's Fairshake Commits $30 Million to Defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio
The crypto super PAC Fairshake has committed $30 million against Sherrod Brown's Ohio Senate comeback, its biggest single-candidate spend of the 2026 midterms, with more than $90 million still on hand.
Legal
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Sep 21, 2026
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The CFTC Is Investigating Polymarket After a $10 Million Fraud Attempt and a Growth-Over-Compliance Push
A Wall Street Journal investigation says Polymarket's payment processor flagged more than 80 percent of US deposits as fraudulent while the prediction market chased a $21 billion valuation.
Legal
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Sep 19, 2026
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Coinbase Files With the CFTC to Bring Single-Stock Perpetual Futures to US Traders
Coinbase Derivatives asked the CFTC on Friday to list 24/5 perpetual futures on 50 to 60 US stocks, including Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla, letting traders take leveraged positions without owning the shares.
Legal
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Sep 18, 2026
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A US Bill to Lock Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Into Law Clears a House Committee
The American Reserve Modernization Act passed the House Financial Services Committee 28 to 21, moving to codify a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and require the government to hold its roughly 324,527 bitcoin for at least 20 years.
Legal
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Sep 18, 2026
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The CFTC Says DeFi and Wallet Developers Can Route Derivatives Trades Without Registering as Brokers
A new CFTC staff no-action letter, 26-25, extends industry-wide relief so any maker of passive software, including DeFi front ends and self-custodial wallets, will not face enforcement for failing to register as an introducing broker, subject to ten conditions.