The July cluster now includes Storj, BitMEX, Movement Labs, Poolin and BitMart, a reminder that the crypto shutdown wave is hitting infrastructure, not just tokens.
The pace is unusual for the first half of a year and points to a thinning of marginal liquidity across altcoin venues, with rug pulls and abandoned roadmaps doing most of the damage.
Project-linked wallets have now moved $172M of TRUMP over five months while the token is down 66% from its January peak, and Polymarket traders give a fourth-term repeal just a 4% chance.
The locked-token raise comes as the Altman-backed project pivots from network growth to enterprise integration, betting biometric verification becomes essential infrastructure as bots and deepfakes…
Criminals are targeting the people behind private keys, making personal safety and access controls central to crypto risk management.
The complaint alleges BitMEX operated a hidden desk that traded against users and froze servers during volatility to trigger liquidations, with plaintiffs seeking return of roughly 623 BTC.
The deleted post hit while Robinhood's new chain was already running hot: $700M+ in assets and 300K daily addresses, turning a single compromised tweet into an obvious target for scammers.
The fake "Vladhood" post exploited Tenev's reach to flog a token on the very chain his firm launched, underscoring how memecoin rails and high-profile social accounts remain a soft target.
The MOVE token hit an all-time low after Coinbase delisting, and the bankruptcy filing now shows the project holds under $1M in assets despite raising $38M just last year.
BitClub's $722M scheme is the headline figure, but a pre-trial dismissal leaves victims still waiting on a court-approved recovery formula.
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
The company-level ban and nine-figure judgment land without the founders as parties, leaving their parallel federal cases to set the precedent on individual liability for the collapse.
The five civil complaints, filed by the Scam Center Strike Force, lift the task force's recovery total past $800M and show how routinely crypto rails are being used to launder proceeds of personal…
A nonce-reuse bug in the Zilliqa Ledger app let attackers reconstruct private keys from roughly five native signatures, and Upbit's cautionary-asset designation now puts ZIL trading support itself in…
The latest forfeiture filings sit inside a Strike Force pipeline that has already recovered more than $800M, signalling the DOJ's cross-border fraud net is widening, not winding down.
The claim is small relative to the $10M liability pile, but the optics matter: a co-founder terminated over a token-launch dump scandal now sits in the creditor queue alongside ordinary creditors.
Of roughly $22M raised from 380 investors, only about $2.9M was deployed into mining rigs; the SEC complaint maps a playbook of group-chat signals, fake STOs, and a final withdrawal-fee trap.
The case is one of the largest retail-facing mining schemes charged by the SEC this cycle and lands as the agency widens its fraud sweep beyond insider-trading and disclosure cases.
Only 13% of investor funds reached the advertised crypto-mining rigs; the rest funded lifestyle spending and unrelated ventures, the SEC alleges.
The SEC's complaint sketches a familiar playbook: WhatsApp 'signal' groups, phony STOs, and a withdrawal-fee twist that kept the alleged $20M scheme running on new investor cash.
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