Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
The scale of the Johor crackdown puts electricity access and enforcement risk at the center of Bitcoin mining economics.
The takedown targets offline Bluetooth mesh code used by Delhi protesters to route around internet shutdowns, and tests the censorship-resistance property bitcoin's loudest advocates have always sold.
The withdrawal window is generous, but positions still open when BitMEX winds down its EU books get a much shorter fuse, and the venue is part of a broader CASP purge expected to hit ~75% of…
Seventeen major shutdowns and bankruptcies in the first stretch of 2026 carry a combined $8.9B in disclosed prior funding, a consolidation that is clearing out failed NFT venues alongside insolvent…
The platform argues the ANJ order is disproportionate because it covers informational visitors too, but France joins Ukraine, Argentina and Spain in ordering ISP-level blocks against prediction…
A 14-year SEC veteran exits as the Enforcement Division navigates a shifting enforcement agenda and a leadership refresh at the top.
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.
A senior enforcement principal deputy exits mid-pivot on crypto policy, with a former SEC attorney lined up to take the role as priorities shift toward court-tested actions.
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.
France's regulator wants prediction-market trading off-limits; Polymarket argues the read-only site still belongs in the European information stack and will fight the geoblock in court.
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…
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 exchange was sanctioned in May for alleged Russian sanctions evasion; TRM's blockchain tracing now shows wallets cycling across four chains to stay one step ahead of screening.
The new FIA cell formalises enforcement under the Virtual Assets Act that created PVARA, signalling Pakistan's push from framework-building to active pursuit of digital asset crime.
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 revocation in Forest City comes after an investigation into allegations involving Israeli participants, though immigration authorities said those inspected held valid travel documents.
The remark lands with oil and risk assets already on edge: an explicit open-ended posture toward Iran tightens the geopolitical premium and raises the odds of a fresh Strait of Hormuz shock.
The platform's first public insider-trading sweep lands alongside a Bloomberg tally showing roughly $200M in H1 2026 trades flagged for potential insider flow, concentrated in geopolitical markets.
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.
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