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U.S. requests October retrial for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm

Roman Storm, a Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, has criticized proceedings against him as an attempt “to make writing code a crime.”

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm outside the Manhattan courthouse where he is being tried for criminal money laundering (CoinDesk/Cheyenne Ligon)

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‘Scam token’ case against Uniswap dismissed by U.S. district judge in NYC

District Judge says that due to the protocol’s decentralized nature, the identities of the scam token issuers are basically unknown, leaving plaintiffs with no identifiable defendant.

GenLayer is building an on-chain court system. (Credit: Unsplash, Wesley Tingey)

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U.S. Prosecutors Seek 12-Year Sentence for Terraform Founder Do Kwon in Crypto Fraud Case

The collapse of Do Kwon's Terraform project caused losses that surpassed those by Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, Celsius and OneCoin combined, the prosecutors argued.

Do Kwon (CoinDesk archives)

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Samourai Wallet Devs Expected to Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill both previously pleaded not guilty, but are expected to change their pleas in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.

Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) Japanese Woodblock Reprint Ishikawa Sosuke Sadatomo (Ishikawa Hyosuke Kazumitsu)

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TRON Foundation, Justin Sun Ask U.S. Court to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit

The defendants argue that the SEC failed to establish that the court has jurisdiction over the foreign defendants.

Justin Sun (CoinDeskTV)

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Binance.US Can Proceed With Plan to Acquire Voyager Digital's Assets, Judge Rules

Binance.US cleared a major hurdle in its effort to acquire the assets of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital in a deal worth over $1 billion after Michael Wiles, a bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of New York, overruled the various objections to the proposed acquisition. CoinDesk Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses the details and key takeaways.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Additional Bank Fraud Charges in New Indictment

The document calls on the former FTX CEO to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of assets, which in many cases have already been seized by the U.S. government.

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on Feb. 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Bankruptcies Are Very Complicated

The FTX, Voyager, Celsius and BlockFi bankruptcy proceedings are proving how complicated they really are.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges

The presiding judge in the case set a target date for the trial to begin in early October.

Sam Bankman-Fried after his first hearing in the U.S. in late December (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

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Previewing FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Not Guilty Plea in Court

The third day of 2023 to the U.S. federal court system is Sam Bankman-Fried's arraignment, which will take place at 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan

Fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)