SEC
Goliath Ventures CEO pleads guilty in $400 million crypto Ponzi case
Christopher Delgado allegedly used investor funds for a lavish lifestyle, including luxury properties and vehicles, while running a fraudulent scheme from 2023 to 2026.
SEC wins $5.5 million default judgment over alleged fake crypto platform NanoBit
The group built trust via WhatsApp, then misappropriated user funds to Hong Kong bank accounts instead of executing any actual crypto trades.
Does the Clarity Act have a human trafficking blind spot?
CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open with two hot topics: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI agentic trading launch and tribal gaming operators' letter to Senators Thune and Schumer demanding that the CLARITY Act include a prohibition on prediction markets. Then Katie Boller Gosewisch, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking, joins to challenge CLARITY's Section 604, arguing that shielding DeFi developers from money-transmitter liability creates a "duty of care" gap that traffickers can exploit. Plus, Rebecca and Renato close by naming Meta as their Person of the Week for its reported move into points-based prediction markets.
The SEC delayed tokenizing stocks, and here’s why that’s a relief
Before we rush to tokenize U.S. equities, we need compliance systems that understand context, not just checkboxes. Investors like Michael Burry see the danger, so should the rest of us, urges Chamarajnagar.
SEC sues Texas man over $12.3 million alleged crypto scheme built on fake AI trading bots
Fuller allegedly diverted $6.2 million for personal use and $5.5M for Ponzi-like payments; only 3% of funds went to crypto trading.
NYSE's owner calls Hyperliquid bigger than NASDAQ
ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said Hyperliquid is "bigger than NASDAQ" by daily volume, and disclosed his team has met its founders multiple times. The DeFi platform controls over 70% of the decentralized perp market and has been trading oil futures on weekends when traditional exchanges are closed. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
Paxos wins SEC approval to clear U.S. stocks on blockchain
Paxos new license positions it alongside legacy giants such as DTCC and makes it a compelling, more efficient alternative for traditional finance giants than legacy competitors.
Can the Trump-Xi Summit send Bitcoin higher?
Bitcoin is holding around $80,000 as President Trump arrives in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping covering tariffs, rare earths, and the Middle East. Could the outcome lift risk assets? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
SEC chair Atkins signals new rules for onchain markets, AI-driven finance
The SEC chair linked the rise of AI-powered financial systems with growing demand for blockchain-based market infrastructure and automated settlement.
SEC Crypto Task Force Chief Counsel: 'I bought my first Bitcoin in 2013'
Taylor Lindman, chief counsel of the SEC Crypto Task Force, joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2026 in Miami to outline the agency's two-bucket approach to crypto regulation, why the CLARITY Act will "supercharge" the SEC, and the open questions around tokenized securities. Plus, the chief counsel's personal crypto origin story: buying Bitcoin in Korea in 2013 and learning self-custody after his exchange went bust.
