Enforcement actions — sanctions, asset seizures, exchange shutdowns, regulator fines, and criminal investigations.
The Catfi prosecution sets a live precedent: a Korean court is now willing to treat a Solana meme-coin exit as a criminal manipulation case, not just a civil loss.
Britain's Foreign Office sanctioned HTX on "reasonable grounds to suspect" it assisted A7 LLC — but both HTX and the stablecoin's executive say the listing was rejected months ago.
South Korean authorities have arrested suspects behind CatFi, a Solana-based memecoin, in what marks the country's…
The first use of Regulation 17A against crypto venues — not the $90B A7 figure — is the structural beat: every UK-regulated exchange now has a precedent for tracing multi-hop blockchain transactions.
The move extends the UK sanctions toolkit from TradFi into on-chain venues — Bitpapa, EXMO, Aifory, Rapira, and Garantex's EU arm all hit, with Elliptic calling it a structural first.
Spain's gambling regulator has blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi, citing the platforms' failure to hold the…
It's the first time the UK has used its crypto-specific Regulation 17A against an exchange, a structural signal that goes well beyond one venue in a small token's market cap.
Spain's DGOJ initiated disciplinary proceedings and forced ISP-level blocks — joining Indonesia, India, Belgium, France, and the U.K.
The loss number is modest, but the attack vector — paid Google Search ads spoofing a top DEX's domain — has become the default phishing lane for crypto users and is widening.
The CLARITY Act hands the CFTC a new crypto mandate before it has the people to run it — every registration, surveillance feed, and enforcement case is now capacity-constrained before day one.
The ban is part of a wider Asian clampdown — Singapore, Brazil, India, Taiwan, Thailand, China and Japan have all moved against the platform, with Indonesia's order leaving the door open to extending…
The block lands days after an Indonesian Polymarket contract on when President Prabowo would leave office turned the obscure platform into a domestic political flashpoint.
Polymarket joins a growing blacklist across emerging markets — Brazil, Argentina, and Indonesia have all moved in 2026, and US state courts are still letting gambling cases proceed.
The week's ten biggest Asia-Pacific crypto stories land on a single axis: Beijing tightening outbound capital controls, New Delhi blocking prediction markets, and Seoul preparing the ground for…
41 kidnappings so far this year — roughly one every 2.5 days — point to France as the epicenter of physical-extortion crime against crypto holders, driven by centralized KYC data leaks.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged an active exploit targeting StablR-linked stablecoin contracts, with losses…
Thirty machines on a clandestine grid line pulled 45 kW — about $6,400 a month in avoided electricity costs — turning territorial control and free power into portable digital value for Comando…
Binance has publicly disputed a Wall Street Journal report alleging the exchange facilitated transactions tied to…
The chair of the House Oversight Committee has formally launched a probe into potential insider trading activity on…
Bessent's $500M total freeze is the number Treasury is selling, but the structural story is the $7.7B Iran still controls — and the alternative-rail logic that keeps sanctions evasion a moving target.
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