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Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
Washington Wrote AI Rules in 60 Days; Crypto Awaits Clarity
The White House finalized a confidential AI rulebook in 60 days, while crypto's public market-structure bill has waited 459 days since the House passed it.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
World's New Tool Hunts Deepfakes on Video Calls
World sold banks a badge that checks if a video caller is real. Its loudest critic says the fraud rides in on the audio.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
Ledger's CEO Tells Mt. Gox's Ex-CEO: Get Real
Ledger's chief dismissed a security warning from Mt. Gox's old CEO about a $93 million wallet hack.
Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
Turkey Confirms HEX Founder Richard Heart's Arrest
Turkey's justice minister confirmed Richard Heart's arrest, and HEX's price fell fast as the news spread.
Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
The Crypto Brief, Oct. 17: Smith Fills Washington's Empty Seat
Kristin Smith starts atop crypto's biggest lobby as the White House's own crypto council sits with zero staff.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Kristin Smith Returns to Run Crypto's Lobby
She starts as Washington's crypto council sits empty, a week after its third director in fourteen months quit.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
Banks Push Deeper Into Crypto As Quantum Fears Simmer
A bank added Ripple's stablecoin to its core, and Google's quantum chip renewed old fears.
Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
Friday Filings: Banks Sue the OCC, Peirce Leaves the SEC
On Oct. 2, 2026, community bankers sued the OCC over crypto trust charters, Hester Peirce served her last day at the SEC, and Coinbase disclosed its chief accounting officer's retirement.
Rules & RiskExecutive Hires
Ledger Names Oded Blatman Chief Information and Security Officer
Ledger merged its technology and security leadership into one role on September 9, 2026, naming former Fireblocks security chief Oded Blatman to run both as the industry lost $1.4 billion to hacks and exploits over the prior year.
Rules & RiskExecutive Hires
Ondo Finance Names Peter Curley Regulatory Affairs Chief
Ondo Finance hired former SEC and Treasury official Peter Curley as its Head of Global Regulatory Affairs on September 10, 2025.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Crypto Council for Innovation Names Ji Hun Kim CEO
The Crypto Council for Innovation named its chief legal and policy officer, Ji Hun Kim, chief executive officer on July 24, 2025, and added SoFi as a member the same day.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Blockchain Association Names Summer Mersinger CEO
The Blockchain Association, a crypto trade group, announced on May 14, 2025 that CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger would become its chief executive, succeeding Kristin Smith.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Kristin Smith Steps Down as Blockchain Association CEO
Kristin Smith told followers on April 1, 2025 that she would leave the Blockchain Association on May 16 for the top job at the Solana Policy Institute.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Digital Chamber Names Cody Carbone Chief Executive Officer
The Digital Chamber named President Cody Carbone chief executive officer on March 19, 2025, handing him the top job at the oldest U.S. crypto advocacy group as founder Perianne Boring moved to chair its board.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Digital Chamber Founder Perianne Boring Steps Down as CEO
Perianne Boring stepped down as chief executive of the Digital Chamber on March 19, 2025, after more than a decade running the group she founded, moving into the chair of its board as Cody Carbone took over.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Sheila Warren Steps Down as Crypto Council for Innovation CEO
Sheila Warren told the Crypto Council for Innovation she would leave as CEO effective Jan. 6, 2025, after close to three years leading the Washington crypto lobbying group.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Chainalysis Names Co-Founder Jonathan Levin Chief Executive
Chainalysis' board named co-founder Jonathan Levin chief executive on Dec. 5, 2024, two months after longtime CEO Michael Gronager went on leave and later stepped down.
Rules & RiskExecutive Hires
Crypto Council for Innovation Names Linda Jeng General Counsel
The Crypto Council for Innovation named former Federal Reserve staffer Linda Jeng chief global regulatory officer and general counsel on July 26, 2022, as the advocacy group expanded its Washington policy team.
Rules & RiskCEO Changes
Crypto Council for Innovation Names Sheila Warren CEO
The Crypto Council for Innovation named Sheila Warren its first chief executive officer on Jan. 31, 2022, pulling her from a digital assets post at the World Economic Forum.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
Tigran Gambaryan Seizes 69,370 Bitcoin, Then Nigeria Seizes Him
IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan traced corrupt agents, BTC-e and Welcome to Video, then spent eight months held in Nigeria as a Binance executive.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
samczsun Answers Crypto's 911 Calls
samczsun started a $9.6 million white-hat rescue in 2020, protected $350 million at SushiSwap in 2021, then founded SEAL's emergency hotline.
Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
Hester Peirce Waits Six Years for a Token Safe Harbor
Peirce proposed a three-year token safe harbor on Feb. 6, 2020; the SEC proposed its own on Aug. 18, 2026, weeks before she left.
Rules & RiskRegulation & Enforcement
Caitlin Long's Crypto Bank Law Meets the Fed's Third Tier
Wyoming created crypto banks on Feb. 26, 2019; the Fed rejected Caitlin Long's Custodia in 2023 and approved Kraken's bank only in 2026.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
Kim Nilsson Traces Mt. Gox's Missing Bitcoin to BTC-e
WizSec's Kim Nilsson traced stolen Mt. Gox bitcoin to BTC-e and named Alexander Vinnik his chief suspect the day Vinnik's arrest broke.
Rules & RiskSecurity & Incident Response
Sarah Meiklejohn Follows a Fistful of Bitcoins
Sarah Meiklejohn's 2013 paper used 344 test payments to put names on 1.8 million Bitcoin addresses, and tracing firms now run variants of it.
