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On October 9, 2024, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler spoke at an event at the New York University School of Law in Manhattan. Once again, he took the opportunity to lay out the familiar crypto concerns that the SEC, under his leadership, has been raising for years.

Chase Herro, a figure with a contentious reputation, took on a leadership role at the new cryptocurrency platform World Liberty Financial, backed by the Trump family. Herro is notorious for aggressively promoting marijuana products, fake weight-loss supplements, and launching a get-rich-quick subscription course priced at $149 per month.

Google has fired 28 workers who objected to its deal with the Israeli Defense Ministry, which includes using cloud-based AI technologies. These employees had accused the company's leadership of contributing to the genocide of Palestinians.

FTX's leadership aims to nullify user and investor claims concerning specific tokens linked to investments made by the former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. Included in the affected list are tokens such as Maps (MAPS), DeFi Oxygen (OXY), Serum (SERUM), and Boba (BOBA).

John Reed Stark, a lawyer and former SEC enforcement chief, has labeled the effort by the leadership of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and its associated legal firms to relaunch the platform as blatant fraud. He predicts that by the end of 2024, each attorney involved in this case will afford to buy a luxury beach house, effectively financed by the funds of FTX users.

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is facing a significant financial burden, shelling out approximately $53,000 per hour on legal counsel for its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. From August to October 2023, the exchange's new leadership has already expended over $118 million in legal fees.

Dan Gallagher, the Chief Legal Officer at Robinhood, is being considered as a potential candidate to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) if Donald Trump secures the presidency, Politico reports, referencing opinions from former SEC officials.

Grayscale launched the Ethereum Mini Trust, offering an introductory zero-fee period (0% commission) for the first 6 months or up to $2 billion. Subsequently, the commission will be 0.15%, the lowest in the market, excluding initial discounts.

Artur Schaback has admitted that between July 2015 and June 2019, under his leadership, the P2P exchange Paxful failed to comply with U.S. regulations on customer identification (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) standards.

Kyle Davies, the co-founder of the now-bankrupt crypto fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), tried convincing LayerZero's leadership to hand over their entire treasury to the fund just days before declaring bankruptcy. LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pellegrino revealed Davies offered enticingly high-interest rates for the deal.

The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX is set to sell Digital Custody Inc. (DCI), a subsidiary it acquired for $10 million, to CoinList for merely $500,000. The leadership deems this transaction favorable, given that DCI, a provider of custodial services, has lost its utility following the abandonment of plans to reboot the platform.

Alan R. Rosenberg, an attorney with the American firm Markowitz Ringel Trusty & Hartog, believes the FTX bankruptcy process could extend over several years. The complexity is due to the vast number of creditors involved and the contentious nature of the claims. As an example, FTX's leadership continues efforts to reclaim substantial funds transferred to various entities just before its bankruptcy.

The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament has voted in support of a report that highlights the development of virtual worlds, independent of countries outside the EU.