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Sep 20Robinhood Wallet Users Bought Dogwifhat With Credit Cards and Earned Cash Back, Because Visa Was Told They Were Buying E-Books●Sep 19The Senate Needed 60 Votes to Give Crypto a Rulebook and Got 49. The CFTC Needed Zero, and Just Filed One With the White House.●Sep 18The SEC Just Legalized Trading Apple Stock on Uniswap. The $3 Billion of Tokenized Stocks That Already Exist Don't Qualify.●Sep 17Two Robinhood Engineers Front-Ran Their Own Company's Token Listings on Hyperliquid. They Made $50K Each. They're Facing 30 Years.●Sep 16The Democrats Who Helped Write the CLARITY Act Just Voted to Kill It. 49-50. Crypto's Senate Bill Is Dead for 2026.●Sep 15Balancer's CEO Just Asked Token Holders to Vote the Protocol Dead. Its $9M Treasury Is Worth More Than Its Own Token.●Sep 14Trump Made $1.4 Billion on Crypto Last Year. Republicans Just Sent Democrats a 'Final Offer' That Makes Him Give Up Control of It.●Sep 13Someone Emailed Revolut From a Real Government Domain. Revolut Sent Back Passports and Bitcoin Histories.●Sep 12FTX Creditors Got Up to 120% of Their Money Back. SBF Just Told the Supreme Court That's Why He's Innocent.●Sep 11They Pointed AI Agents at Bitcoin's Encryption. Eight Weeks Later, Cracking It Got 86% Cheaper.●Sep 20Robinhood Wallet Users Bought Dogwifhat With Credit Cards and Earned Cash Back, Because Visa Was Told They Were Buying E-Books●Sep 19The Senate Needed 60 Votes to Give Crypto a Rulebook and Got 49. The CFTC Needed Zero, and Just Filed One With the White House.●Sep 18The SEC Just Legalized Trading Apple Stock on Uniswap. The $3 Billion of Tokenized Stocks That Already Exist Don't Qualify.●Sep 17Two Robinhood Engineers Front-Ran Their Own Company's Token Listings on Hyperliquid. They Made $50K Each. They're Facing 30 Years.●Sep 16The Democrats Who Helped Write the CLARITY Act Just Voted to Kill It. 49-50. Crypto's Senate Bill Is Dead for 2026.●Sep 15Balancer's CEO Just Asked Token Holders to Vote the Protocol Dead. Its $9M Treasury Is Worth More Than Its Own Token.●Sep 14Trump Made $1.4 Billion on Crypto Last Year. Republicans Just Sent Democrats a 'Final Offer' That Makes Him Give Up Control of It.●Sep 13Someone Emailed Revolut From a Real Government Domain. Revolut Sent Back Passports and Bitcoin Histories.●Sep 12FTX Creditors Got Up to 120% of Their Money Back. SBF Just Told the Supreme Court That's Why He's Innocent.●Sep 11They Pointed AI Agents at Bitcoin's Encryption. Eight Weeks Later, Cracking It Got 86% Cheaper.●

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Two Robinhood Engineers Front-Ran Their Own Company's Token Listings on Hyperliquid. They Made $50K Each. They're Facing 30 Years.

Sep 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Hefu Chai and Jerry Xiang were 'Coin Aware Individuals' with access to Robinhood's private listings Slack channel. Prosecutors say they bought Hyperliquid perps on POPCAT, HYPE and RENDER minutes before the announcements went out, across at least 21 listings. An anon on X flagged the exact pattern a year ago. Now SDNY is bringing what looks like the first Commodity Exchange Act case over trades on a DEX.