
Is Crime Legal Now?
2025 crypto crime recap: Pump.fun memecoins where over 99% sit below $100k market cap, insider trading, the $1.5B Bybit hack and ~$3B in total losses.
Regulation matters to Castle Labs when it changes what can be built, traded, held, or distributed. This topic covers policy shifts, compliance infrastructure, institutional access, permissioned rails, privacy rules, stablecoin frameworks, and the legal constraints shaping market structure. It is intentionally practical: what does the rule change mean for protocols, allocators, exchanges, and users?
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2025 crypto crime recap: Pump.fun memecoins where over 99% sit below $100k market cap, insider trading, the $1.5B Bybit hack and ~$3B in total losses.

Crypto regulation compared: the US pivot under the GENIUS Act and Paul Atkins' SEC, the EU's risk-averse MiCA regime, and why Switzerland is the ideal model.

Weekly crypto recap: SEC charges Galois Capital, the CFTC fines Uniswap Labs $175,000, Trump's DeFi project on Aave, Fed rate cut odds and token unlocks.

What Trump's win means for crypto: Bitcoin hit a $77,000 high, the iShares Bitcoin ETF traded $4.1B, a Polymarket whale made $20M, and the SEC outlook shifted.
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