Daily Brief ยท October 10, 2026
Regulatory agencies announce major enforcement actions against platform executives and darknet operators, while Ethereum tests a massive capacity expansion on Sepolia.
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SEC Charges Former Linqto Executives Over $430M Pre-IPO Offerings
The SEC charged William Sarris and Joseph Endoso on Oct. 9 for allegedly selling unregistered securities to unaccredited buyers from 2021 to 2024, claiming manual price fixing and false scarcity .
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Feds Indict Two Men for Allegedly Running $430M Empire Darknet Market
Federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Thomas Pavey and Raheim Hamilton for allegedly managing the illicit platform between 2018 and 2020, seizing approximately $75 million in cryptocurrency and physical assets .
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CFTC Secures Lifetime Trading Ban Against Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky
A federal court entered a consent order permanently barring Alexander Mashinsky from US commodities markets following his 12-year prison sentence and $48 million forfeiture for fraud .
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Ethereum Activates Glamsterdam Upgrade on Sepolia Testnet
The network update successfully deployed on Oct. 6, introducing a block gas limit schedule targeting 200 million and integrating proposer-builder separation into the consensus rules .
The numbers
Bitcoin trades at $82,786, up 0.3% over 24 hours, while total market capitalization stands at $2.75 trillion amid a Fear & Greed index reading of 64.
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