Ripple’s chief legal officer has countered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s allegations following the crypto firm’s proposal to limit its penalty to no more than $ 10 million. The legal chief highlighted that the SEC is “raging” and emphasized that, unlike the Terraform Labs case, there are no victims to compensate in …
Coinbase’s Legal Chief: SEC Is Bent on Choking the Digital Asset Industry
Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, announced that the crypto exchange has filed a closing brief in the Third Circuit challenging the SEC’s denial of their rulemaking petition. The brief argues that the SEC’s order, which disagrees with claims that SEC rules are unworkable for digital asset firms, lacks reasoned decision-making. Grewal asserts that the […]
Openai Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever Steps Down, Jakub Pachocki Named New Chief Scientist
Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist at Openai, announced his departure from the company after nearly a decade to work on a “personally meaningful” project, without specifying further details. Jakub Pachocki, previously the director of research at Openai since 2017 and the lead on the development of the GPT-4 large language model, has […]
Coinbase Legal Chief Urges SEC Chair to Stop Misleading the Market About Crypto Tokens Being Securities
Coinbase’s chief legal officer has publicly urged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler to stop misleading the market regarding crypto tokens being securities. His request followed Gensler’s repeated assertions that numerous crypto tokens conform to the legal definition of securities, thereby requiring compliance with SEC regulations. Coinbase’s CLO to Gensler: Please Stop […]
Former Bitmex Chief Expects Bitcoin to Trade Within $60K-$70K Range Until August
Former Bitmex CEO Arthur Hayes predicts bitcoin will range-bound trade between $ 60,000 and $ 70,000 until August. “The slow addition of billions of dollars of liquidity each month will dampen negative price movement from here on out,” Hayes said, adding that he expects “prices to bottom, chop, and begin a slow grind …