Where are all the cases of the SEC

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped or silenced in a dozen ongoing cases (and one has lost one) since US President Donald Trump has been posting an office in just two months and nominated commissioner Mark Uyeda as the acting chairman.

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The narrative

The US Securities and Exchange Commission appears to have closed almost all of the remaining cases associated with the crypto-at least publicly revealed-in the last two months since Mark Uyeda was taken as the agency’s acting chairman. In many court filing, the SEC argued that it had to pull these cases as the new crypto task force of the regulator re -evaluated how security laws exactly applicable to digital possessions, even though some of these cases the SEC left itself without turning to sue to sue again if it had found some cryptos from the past.

Why important

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Breaking it

• Ripple: Ripple announced that it had come to a SEC agreement to overthrow the same SEC appeal of 2023 federal ruling and Ripple’s cross-appeal. Ripple will receive $ 75 million a $ 125 million fine reviewed by a federal judge. The agreement has not yet appeared in the public court docket.
• Coinbase: Coinbase announced last month that it came to a SEC agreement to drop the ongoing regulator case against it. The SEC filed to withdraw the case with prejudice – meaning it could not bring the same charges again – and a judge signed off at the end of February. The Sec Dumanano Solana (Sol), Cardano (ADA), Polygon (Matic), Sandbox (Sand), Filecoin (Fil), Axie Infinity (Axs), Chiliz (CHZ), Flow (Flow), Internet Computer (ICP), Near (Near), Voyager (VGX), Dash (Dash) and Nexo (Nexo) all appear to be neglected as a legal law (Nexo) its.
• Consensys: SEC said it would lower its case against Consensys on the metamask wallet, CEO Joe Lubin said last month, and a joint stipulation Decline in the case with prejudice was filed on March 27. An admission to the court docket dated March 28 said the civil case ended.
• Kraken: The SEC told Kraken that it would lower its case against the exchange saying it violated security laws and commissioned customer and corporate funds earlier this month. A joint stipulation The removal of the case was filed on March 27, even though a judge had not yet appeared to have been signed off.
• Cumberland DRW: The SEC told the Cumberland DRW that it would lower the case allegedly acting as an unregistered security businessman earlier this month. Sec and Cumberland filed a motion to stay proceeds On March 18, saying “the parties agreed with the principle to remove this trial with prejudice” but it takes three weeks to carry out the details. The judge who oversees the case has issued a movement, which orders the parties to file an integrated status report on April 8 unless the filing of the filing was on the docket then.
• Pulsechain: A federal judge removed the SEC suit against Pulechain and Hex, saying the agency did not show that the project was targeting US investors and that it had jurisdiction in the case. The Sec is until April 21 to file an amended complaint.
• Can’t change: SEC said the labs would not change that it closed the web3 gaming firm, it said earlier this week.
• Yuga labs: The SEC closed its investigation into the Yuga Labs, the NFT firm said earlier this month.
• Robinhood: The SEC told the Robinhood trade platform that it closed the company’s investigation, it said last month.
• Opensea: The SEC closed its investigation into Openea, the CEO of the NFT Market said late last month.
• Underp: The SEC closed its investigation into the Uniswap Labs, the firm announced last month.
• Gemini: The SEC closed its investigation into Gemini, co-founder Cameron Winklevoss said last month.
• Binance: The SEC and Binance (including various affiliate parties/co-defendants) filed to pause the regulator case within 60 days of early February. The judge administers the case The case is silent until April 14ordering parties to file an integrated status report thereafter. The SEC is said to be commingling violations alongside security law violations, as well as allowing people to trade on the global platform.
• Tron Foundation: The SEC and the Tron Foundation (in conjunction with various affiliate parties/co-defendants named) filed to pause the SEC case within 60 days of late February. The judge administers the case Movement has been grantedthat should bring the new deadline around April 27 (one week). The SEC is said to be manipulating the market and fraud, next to violations of law registration related to the law.
• Crypto.com: Crypto.com announced on March 27 that the SEC closed its case in the crypto exchange and would not take any implementation action. Trump Media, the company behind the social reality, is also engaged in the exchange to issue products exchanged exchanges.
• Unicoin: UNICOIN appears to be the only public announcement of the SEC’s ongoing investigation, even though its CEO has asked the agency to close that investigation as well.
• Hawk: On Thursday, Haliey Welch, the “Hawk” token appeared to magpump and dump (Falling from a $ 491 million market cap to under $ 100 million in minutes) when it was launched last year, told TMZ That the SEC also closed its investigation into him.

• Trump-backed World Liberty Financial confirms Stablecoin dollar plans along with BitGo: World Liberty Financial is launching USD1, a stablecoin, in the Ethereum and BNB chain network.
• Trump Media wants to partner with crypto.com for ETP release: Trump Media, the company behind the Truth Social Social Network, wants to launch products exchanged by Crypto Exchange with Crypto.com.
• US House Stablecoin Bill prepared to go public, the lawmaker at the height of the Crypto panel: The latest House bill draft is closer to the Senate genius, which has passed the committee, Rep. Bryan Steil at the annual digital chamber conference.
• The Trump-Tied World Liberty Financial sets Stablecoin in Washington with Don Jr.: Donald Trump Jr. and other leaders of the financial Liberty Financial have established a new stablecoin in the event in the Chamber.
• SEC has lowered the web3 gaming firm investigation that cannot be changed: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped another investigation, at this time unchanged.
• Shuttered Russian Crypto Exchange Garatex Rebrands as Grinex, Global Ledger found: Garantex is an exchange penalized by the US and taken by international law enforcement officials. That does not appear to stop some of its operators from rebraning it as Grinex and launching again, based on on-chain and off-chain data.
• Crypto bill to combat forbidden activity will get a new push after the US House was passed in 2024: Reps. Zach Nunn and Jim Himes recorded the Financial Technology Protection Act again.
• President Trump forgives Arthur Hayes, 2 other Bitmex co-founders: US president Donald Trump forgives Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo and Sam Reed, Bitmex’s co-founders. The three had previously been asked to be guilty of violations of the bank’s Secrecy Act and were punished in the lantern.
• The SEI Foundation researched 23andMe purchase to put genetic data on the blockchain: This headline is self -explanation, though I want to know more about what it means to put the genetic data of individuals into an unchanged public ledger.

Thursday

• 14:00 UTC (10:00 am) Paul Atkins and Jonathan Gould (among others) are facing the Senate banking committee for their hearing on confirmation. Outside of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) Asking about Sam Bankman-Fried Parents (and some other references to FTX falling), There are no questions associated with crypto.

• (The Atlantic) Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor-in-chief, said he was accidentally added to a chat group chat by national security advisor Michael Waltz, who contained other major figures in the Trump administration and where Defense Secretary Pete Hegetth shared details about a imminent welgency at the time before it happened. Middle East Envoy (and World Liberty Financial Investor) Steve Witkoff confirmed That he is part of the team by one of his “personal devices,” instead of his safe phone -released phone. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of National Intelligence and John Ratcliffe, the director of CIA, said that messages are not classifiedand The Atlantic published them.
• (Wired) A Venmo account named “Michael Waltz” whose wired reports were “connected to accounts that carry the names of people closely related to him” left public transactions until the news organization was over.
• (The verge) US president Donald Trump fired federal trade commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, both Democrats, reported violations of an earlier Supreme Court. Both Ever since Trump was filed Contests are firing.
• (The Washington Post) The IRS has been posting it will collect $ 500 billion less than 2025 than 2024, the post reported.
• (The New York Times) “Spacex is positioning itself to see billions -billion dollars in new federal contracts or other support,” The Times reported.
• (The Washington Post) Plainclothes officials arrested Tufts University Ph.D Student Rumeysa Ozturk and he was moved to a Louisiana facility. The Department of Homeland Security said he was “engaged in activities in support of Hamas,” but has not yet published any evidence that supports claims. State secretary Marco Rubio said he canceled Ozturk’s visa because he was “Creates a ruckus“But it does not appear to say that he has committed any crimes.

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