Crypto Wrench Attacks Top $100M in Four Months: CertiK
CertiK counts 34 verified physical-coercion incidents since January — a 41% YoY jump — with Europe absorbing 82% of cases and France emerging as the continent's clearest concentration of…
Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
CertiK counts 34 verified physical-coercion incidents since January — a 41% YoY jump — with Europe absorbing 82% of cases and France emerging as the continent's clearest concentration of…
Garrett Jin's full rotation — 577,896 ETH into Binance over four days, most of it swapped from BTC eight months ago near $4,591 — turns a paper loss into realized selling pressure on $ETH.
Australian law enforcement has seized $4.1 million worth of Bitcoin connected to an alleged darknet marketplace used to…
Beyond the $101M already lost in four months, the structural shift is data-driven targeting and proxy pressure — Europe's clustering, France's outsized share, and the Telegram-recruited ground crews…
Two of the largest spot ETH ETF issuers depositing into the venue's prime brokerage within hours is a near-term supply signal traders will read as distribution, not rotation.
Armstrong's accusation lands in the middle of a CLARITY Act fight that could determine whether stablecoin issuers are regulated like banks — and whether the banks' deposit franchise is the roadblock.
The USDT flows were tiny — under $10K combined — but the indictment is the structural story: a named crypto rail (Binance, OKX) tied to a national-security case inside Taiwan's Anti-Infiltration Act.
Coinbase's crypto trading platform has been down for more than five hours, leaving users unable to execute trades as…
Coinbase experienced service disruptions after elevated temperatures in an Amazon Web Services US-EAST-1 data center…
An extended outage at the largest US-listed crypto venue is more than a user-experience problem — it surfaces the single-cloud dependency the rest of the industry quietly runs on.
A second straight quarter of declining revenue and a fresh 14% workforce cut land as Morgan Stanley opens a lower-fee crypto trading front on E*Trade — competitive pressure is arriving from a new…
The bounty escalates a widening campaign by the onchain sleuth against small-cap projects he says used centralised venues to extract retail — and it puts pressure on Bitget, Bybit, Binance and OKX to…
The monitoring program in question stems from Binance's 2023 guilty plea, so this isn't a new enforcement action — it's the existing monitor's terms being enforced, with $1B in alleged Iran-linked…
The US Treasury is reportedly leaning on Binance a second time to tighten its sanctions compliance framework after…
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…