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The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter
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Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess
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Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.
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Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
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As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
The SEC has just filed a lawsuit against Unicoin, its CEO, and promoters, accusing them of “a massive securities offering fraud” amounting to more than $100 million. The SEC had reportedly previously tried to negotiate a settlement, but Unicoin refused it.
The SEC warned Unicoin of impending civil charges in December 2024, after the company decided after Trump’s election that they would breach a standstill agreement they’d entered with the agency.
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Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and block industry-backed bills.
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As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access
The House Financial Services Republicans and the White House (now deleted) tagged either a hacked or fake account in their announcements that Paul Atkins was sworn in as SEC Chair. The "Atkins" account immediately started asking for crypto.
Meet our new SEC Chair, Paul Atkins. Who better for the role than a Project 2025 architect who blamed the FTX fraud on the US not being "accommodating" to blockchain technology?
@molly0xfff Who better to regulate financial markets than Paul Atkins, a Project 2025 architect who blamed the FTX fraud on the US not being "accommodating" to blockchain technology? #sec #trumpadministration #project2025 #paulatkins ♬ original sound - Molly White
![As the SEC has dropped the majority of its ongoing lawsuits and investigations into cryptocurrency firms, most recently the Immutable web3 gaming company, a few firms seem to be getting a little nervous. Unicoin, a firm that announced shortly after Trump’s election that they would breach the 2024 “standstill” agreement they had reached with the SEC [I72] (and then did so), is now writing letters to the agency asking why their case has yet to be dropped. “We thought the war was over, and we said to the SEC, ‘Hey, we’re resuming our activity,’” explained Unicoin CEO Alex Konanykhin. Like some other industry executives, Konanykhin has gone beyond merely asking for an end to the enforcement case, and in his letter seeks retribution against the SEC employee who led the investigation into his company.14](https://storage.mollywhite.net/micro/f8b26d94775ddfc5a65c_Screenshot-2025-05-21-at-1.52.33---PM.png)
