Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning to professional soccer clubs over sponsorship arrangements…
The regulator's red flag is procedural: clubs face liability, AML exposure and reputational risk by fronting firms that aren't even allowed to operate in the UK.
Nobitex is the headline name, but the action lands on the same week Treasury confirmed roughly $1B seized from Iranian crypto infrastructure — a pressure campaign that is now treating digital-asset…
The United States has sanctioned Nobitex and several other Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges as part of a coordinated…
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges — Nobitex, Bitpin, Ramzinex, and…
The United States has imposed sanctions on Nobitex, Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, in a move that cuts the…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal authorities to identify and shut down bank accounts…
The headline number is large, but the precedent is the actual story: a cabinet secretary describing a direct wallet-level seizure sets a new enforcement template for state-sponsored crypto flows.
The original on-chain read linked the deposits to Cobie directly, but a follow-up correction says the wallet in question is not his — the whale-overhang concern for LDO holders stands either way.
Only ~$1.7M remains in the original wallets — the laundering path through THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra has closed the window for direct transaction-level recovery.
President Trump confirmed the United States will maintain its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran…
First time Britain has wielded Regulation 17A against an exchange — A7 and HTX named as primary targets, with ruble-backed A7A5 stablecoin flagged as the new sanctions-evasion rail.
Treasury's 'grabbed the wallets' claim hits a classification fork: only finally-forfeited BTC feeds the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, while the $344M confirmed USDT freeze points to a stablecoin…
Argentine authorities arrested 24 individuals and seized more than $8 million in cryptocurrency as part of a…
The SEC has charged a Texas man with fraud after investigators found he diverted $6.2 million in investor funds to…
The bank CEO's rare profanity marks the sharpest public fracture yet between Wall Street and crypto-native exchanges over who gets to write stablecoin rules.
The $XAGE-style spike landed without a corporate catalyst, and management's market-surveillance referral suggests the episode is being treated as potential market manipulation rather than a benign…
Treasury seized the wallets but the structural story is bigger: Iran had been moving hundreds of millions a month through crypto, and Bessent is now tying the seizure to 200%+ inflation and unpaid…
Gravity Bridge, the cross-chain protocol connecting Cosmos-based networks to Ethereum, was drained of $5.4 million…
If the contract address belongs to a privacy protocol's confidential USDC wrapper, an OFAC-style freeze without notice becomes a precedent that every composable stablecoin issuer now has to price…
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