Billions stolen, dozens arrested: is crypto crime peaking or adapting?

North Korea-linked hackers stole more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, surpassing every prior year on record, while global law enforcement recovered $439 million and arrested hundreds of money launderers across 40 countries in a single four-month operation. The collision of record state-sponsored heists and coordinated multilateral enforcement raises a sharper question than whether…

SEC just gave crypto lawyers a new way to win in court

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an exemptive order on Oct. 31 that has nothing to do with Bitcoin or Ethereum but everything to do with how crypto exchanges will argue their cases over the next two years. The order delays compliance deadlines for Regulation NMS, the rulebook governing US equity trading, until February…