Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
If hot-wallet reserves in ETH, USDT and SOL are running light, the withdrawal queue stops being an operations problem and starts being a solvency question for users still parked on the venue.
The package extends beyond named exchanges to the rails themselves, signalling the bloc is treating Russian crypto evasion as infrastructure risk rather than a name-and-shame exercise.
FBI and HSI backed the operation, and onchain sleuth ZachXBT has named detained suspect Wojtek Kulisz as 'Merry', the threat actor behind years of social engineering thefts from crypto holders.
The TRM Labs report flags one of the largest spot-derivative venues by volume as a primary on-ramp for sanctioned-jurisdiction flows, a designation that puts the exchange's compliance program under…
The headline figure is striking, but the alleged $6M of IRGC-linked wallet exposure and a U.S. sanctions backdrop turn this from a compliance slip into a potential enforcement flashpoint for the…
The case ties stolen electricity, computer-crime charges, and a prior US seizure of roughly $500K in crypto from an account in Wang Yicheng's name.
The penalty is small, but it lands as South Korea's data-protection regulator tightens its grip on offshore transfers of exchange customer information.
The total is roughly equal to CoinEx's entire 2023 trading volume, and the IRGC and sanctioned Russian counterparties on the counterparty list turn this from a compliance story into a sanctions story.
The figure is unusually large for a single sanctioned-jurisdiction channel, and it lands on a venue already on US watchlists, sharpening the enforcement read for every other mid-tier exchange.
The Wall Street Journal tied the exchange to wallets linked to Iran's central bank and to the $1.5B Bybit hack, escalating a sanctions-evasion case that now names a venue, a central bank, and North…
The same day Treasury named nine individuals and 26 entities tied to a $10B Southeast Asia scam network, a DeFi coalition went public pledging to set enforceable operational standards before…
The Dec. 30 dismissal is now in front of an appellate panel, putting Cuban and the Mavericks back in the litigation cycle Voyager creditors thought they had closed.
The directive signals a sharper federal posture on energy antitrust, with the Justice Department now tasked with identifying whether refiners coordinated to push prices higher.
The action takes a server offline, not a company, but it pulls a known node from a FinCEN-flagged laundering network that processed scam and hack proceeds on chain.
The arrest is small in headline terms, but Hu Xiaowei was a senior figure in a network the US Treasury says ran pig-butchering scams at industrial scale across Asia, with links to crypto laundering.
The promotion was off-platform by design — staged on near-identical lookalike pages — so the trades were never real bets and never touched Polymarket's settlement engine, leaving the question of…
The fraud piggy-backed on the ZKsync brand to deceive global crypto users, and on-chain tracing tied 120+ transactions to U.S.-sanctioned entities.
The statement is enforcement signalling rather than a new case, but it lands as the FBI publicly re-elevates crypto fraud as a priority under a new director.
The Garcia brothers held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for over eight hours to steal more than $8M in crypto — now they face up to 20 years each and full restitution.
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
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