In recent years, however, large parts of the crypto industry have moved in the opposite direction. Startups building products for broader audiences have reintroduced various vectors of centralization, ...

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In 2025, the SEC has shifted focus back to traditional insider trading enforcement, with fewer new cases but steady penalties. The approach is more conservative, targeting classic schemes and ...

This weekend was a big one for prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, but allegations of insider trading and a controversy surrounding the handling of one particularly sensitive market appear ...

Prosecutors are asking a New York federal court judge to sentence two brothers to years in prison for their insider trading in a blank-check company's securities before it announced a planned merger ...

Six Democratic senators sent a letter Friday to the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting an investigation President Donald Trump's announcement of a 90-day pause on most new ...

An outcry over insider trading erupted after one Polymarket user made $400,000 betting that Maduro would be ousted, hours before it happened. Here’s why the godfather of prediction markets thinks it's ...

Some big names and corporations hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons—insider trading scandals. These people played dirty in the stock market, using secret information to get rich quickly while ...

The issue of insider trading has always been a hot one in the stock market and investment circles. Whereas illegal insider trading occurs when a person trades in stocks using non-public material ...

Journal Editorial Report: The 2024 candidates begin to define their opponent. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Congress has never clearly defined insider trading in stocks, but that ...

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