Trump has portrayed Zhao’s case as part of an unfair “war on crypto”. But Zhao pleaded guilty to knowingly breaking the law; and the indictment depicts a CEO and leadership intentionally violating US laws to keep lucrative customers, enabling terrorist financing and cybercrime.

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.

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Days after one of these banking groups submitted their letter with a list of all of Coinbase’s regulatory violations in the US and Europe over the last five years, Coinbase was fined $25 million in Ireland for transaction monitoring failures.

I do have to admire him a little bit for incinerating $2 million across Ripple and the Winklevoss twins last go-around

Pro-crypto candidate John Deaton, the Republican who lost to Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) by nearly 20 points in 2024, now wants to challenge Ed Markey in 2026. He believes he can win if he can secure support from crypto super PACs and their nine-figure war chests.