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Tether – the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT – is once again being pressured to demonstrate the quality of its reserves.  On Tuesday, the company was ordered by a U.S. court in New York to provide detailed financial documents for evaluating claims around the asset’s backing.  An ‘Extraordinary’ Request The order is part of an ongoing 2019 lawsuit claiming that Bitfinex and Tether conspired to inflate Bitcoin’s price by pumping the market with unbacked Tether tokens. At the…

A court in the US has ruled in favour of the SEC in a case it had filed against ICOBox and its founder cum CEO Nikolay Evdokimov. Reports indicate that The District Court of the Central District of California granted the U.S. SEC’s motion for default judgement against the defendants. The case first came before the court in September of last year. In its filing, the SEC accused ICOBox of hosting an unregistered securities sale. Further, it alleged that the…