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Roughly a year after US Treasury officials added addresses associated with the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash to the department’s list of sanctioned entities, authorities arrested Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on money-laundering charges.
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Ellison spent her New Year’s at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, which houses male and female inmates. In one of his last acts as a free man before reporting to prison on Oct. 11, Salame changed his LinkedIn profile to state he was “starting a new position” as an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland.
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SBF’s one-time girlfriend, Alameda Research ex-CEO Caroline Ellison, and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Saboth pleaded guilty to fraud charges related to the collapse of the crypto exchange. They were sentenced to two years and seven-and-a-half years, respectively, though the US Bureau of Prisons has listed Salame’s release date as 2031.
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After a judge sentenced Bankman-Fried to 25 years, he was remanded to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to assist in his appeal. Jan. 1, 2025, marked the first New Year’s Day SBF spent in prison as a convicted and sentenced felon, and he isn’t alone.
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After a lengthy extradition process from the Bahamas, former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried was moved to United States custody and initially released on bond. He was held in a correctional facility after a federal judge revoked his bail in August 2023, prior to his criminal trial, conviction and sentencing.
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Deutsche Bank’s solution curates trusted validators and grants regulators special oversight to minimize risks such as interacting with sanctioned entities. The platform is designed to align blockchain transparency with financial compliance requirements.
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Project Dama 2 is part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian, which brings together 24 financial institutions to explore blockchain-based asset tokenization.
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The L2 solution, part of Project Dama 2, looks to improve transaction efficiency and secure regulatory safeguards, integrating directly with Ethereum, according to Bloomberg.
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Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest lender, is reportedly developing its own layer-2 (L2) blockchain on Ethereum using ZKsync technology to address compliance challenges associated with using public blockchains in regulated finance.
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In a written statement to Cointelegraph, a Crypto.com spokesperson said the exchange dismissed the lawsuit to highlight its “intent to work with the incoming administration on a regulatory framework for the industry.”
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Marszalek initially revealed his intent to sue the SEC in October to “protect the future of crypto.”
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The meeting was held on the same day that the Crypto.com exchange voluntarily dropped its lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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According to a social media post, Marszalek traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss the potential for a Bitcoin strategic reserve. The two also discussed crypto-related appointments to Trump’s incoming administration.
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United States President-elect Donald Trump met with Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek to discuss the nation’s crypto policies, signaling readiness from the incoming administration to follow through on its pro-crypto proposals.
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Texas and Pennsylvania have filed similar legislation to establish Bitcoin reserves after Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in November — who has also floated the idea of a federal Bitcoin reserve.
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“The Court is concerned with what appears to be FDICs lack of good-faith effort in making nuanced redactions,” Washington, DC, District Court Judge Ana Reyes wrote in a Dec. 12 text order.
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A United States federal judge criticized the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for its redactions of crypto “pause letters” sent to banks, amid a Coinbase-backed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
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The letters show the FDIC asked 23 financial institutions about their crypto-related activities, with some detailing that the agency had asked firms to “pause all crypto asset-related activity” and “refrain from providing” or “expanding” crypto products and services.
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The FDIC was told to “make more thoughtful redactions,” re-file the letters by Jan. 3 and “be prepared to defend each new redaction.”
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The 15-week highs mean that the pair is now “choppier” than at any time since mid-August.
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