California Man Gets 78 Months in $250M Crypto Theft Ring
The 6.5-year sentence lands against a backdrop of record crypto-fraud losses — $11.3B last year per the FBI — and a wave of federal task-force arrests of the operators behind the schemes.
Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
The 6.5-year sentence lands against a backdrop of record crypto-fraud losses — $11.3B last year per the FBI — and a wave of federal task-force arrests of the operators behind the schemes.
Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
There are zero FCA-registered peer-to-peer crypto traders in Britain — and eight cease-and-desist letters later, the line between an occasional swap and an unlicensed exchange just got harder to…
The CFTC has filed suit against New York, marking the fourth state the agency has sued in just three weeks in an…
The US government has sanctioned a network of Iran-linked crypto wallets, including addresses holding $344 million in…
Tennessee has become the latest US state to ban crypto ATMs statewide, joining Indiana in a growing wave of state-level…
Wisconsin's Department of Justice has filed suit against five major trading and prediction-market platforms — Kalshi…
The token topped CryptoRank's most-searched list after the 24-hour crash, with the two exchanges citing abnormal activity around last week's pump.
A security breach at KelpDAO has escalated into a broader contagion event, with exploit activity reportedly spreading…
US authorities have frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency connected to Iran, marking one of the largest state-linked…
DSJ Exchange / BG Wealth Sharing drew over $150M before going offline; $41.5M has already been frozen after cooperation between Tether, Binance, OKX and U.S. law enforcement.
The accusation from one of crypto's most-watched on-chain investigators puts a top DEX by volume in the crosshairs — and signals a wider enforcement net may be forming.
The allegation lands on a regulated venue sitting inside a $1B+ liquidity corridor: a credible on-chain investigator putting a specific DEX and its co-founder on record is the kind of signal…
The first NY action against a yield-product promoter — not its issuer — pulls distribution-layer platforms into the same enforcement lane the SEC opened with BlockFi, and lands just as Uphold is…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a $5 million settlement from crypto platform Uphold, following an…
The bloc's biggest sanctions move in years stops chasing exchanges and starts targeting the service stack above them — service providers, decentralized platforms, RUBx, and the digital rouble all in…
The first explicit crypto crackdown in the EU's Russia sanctions regime covers every licensed venue and wallet — and names the RUBx stablecoin and digital rouble directly, not just the ruble itself.
The European Union has rolled out its largest sanctions measures against Russia to date, with crypto evasion explicitly…
The dollar number is headline-grabbing, but the operative detail is Tether's role: a stablecoin issuer voluntarily freezing sanctioned-jurisdiction wallets sets a precedent every other USDC- and…
A U.S. official has confirmed that the 344 million USDT frozen by Tether is connected to Iran, shedding light on one of…