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Mango Markets’ exploiter Avraham Eisenberg was hit with a lawsuit by Mango Labs, the company behind the DeFi protocol, for $47 million in damages. The Wednesday filing with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that Eisenberg executed a malicious attack on Mango Markets by manipulating the native token, MNGO, through “fraud, deception,” and converted nearly $114 million from the depositors of the protocol into his own accounts....

The non-profit organization – Stellar Development Foundation – announced joining a new advisory committee of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the firm’s statement, SDF will be one of the four crypto-focused organizations at the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), which is one of the five active Advisory Committees overseen by the CFTC. The firm behind the Stellar blockchain will join representatives from traditional finance...

The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg with violating federal commodities laws during his $110 million manipulation attack in October.  The commission seeks various forms of penalties and relief from the attacker, some of which include trading bans, restitution, and disgorgement. Eisenberg’s Crime Per the complaint filed on Monday, the CFTC said that Eisenberg misappropriated over $100 million from the Mango...

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow announced she will abandon her post in January 2025. The politician was one of the creators of cryptocurrency legislation that could empower the CFTC with exclusive jurisdiction when overseeing the market. Interestingly, the former CEO of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried – was a vocal supporter of the bill, which received the nickname: “the SBF crypto bill.” Passing the Torch Senator Stabenow – the first woman from Michigan elected to the United States...

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The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had alleged that Alameda Research was offered a secret “time advantage” when executing trades at the defunct crypto exchange FTX.  The revelation adds to a growing list of claims and evidence suggesting that FTX and Alameda were not nearly as independent as once publicly portrayed.  The Alameda Advantage As reported by Bloomberg, Alameda was able to skirt and sidestep certain aspects of FTX’s trading procedures and...

The American authorities ordered Jeremy Spence (a.k.a. “Coin Signals”) to pay over $2.8 million in restitution to victims of his cryptocurrency fraud.  The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced the criminal to 42 months in prison in May for running a scheme that defrauded investors with more than $5 million. ‘An Illustration of the CFTC’s Best Efforts’ The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the US District Court for the Southern District of New York...