The sentence closes a multi-year US case over GTV, Himalaya Exchange and the farm alliance, but leaves open how much investors will ever recover from the alleged $1B raise.
The airdrop looked broad: 700-plus wallets. But the structure reveals a whale game. Seven recipients absorbed 74% of the distribution and flipped 77% of their haul within hours of receipt.
Final judgment lands on a WhatsApp-group impersonation scheme that ran from September 2023 through June 2024; the dollar figure is modest but the case closes a Biden-era enforcement file.
The spend figure lands as Binance pushes to reposition itself as the compliance-first centralized exchange, with the fraud-interception tally doubling as both a deterrent pitch and a regulatory…
The threat is shifting from protocol exploits to single-decision attacks on individual holders; a few pre-send verification habits and offline address checks close most of the gap.
The numbers flatten the rug-pull narrative: low-cost deploys still need an exit buyer, and on this one the deployer walked away with pocket change while the market cap cleared nine figures.
The 604M-token stash in the named KOL's wallet is now worth more than the entire initial mints of several 2025 launches, with no mechanism in the token contract to dilute or unlock it.
A 261x return on a low-cap memecoin via wallet tracking, with most of the profit still unrealized and on-chain moves anyone can copy.
FBI and HSI backed the operation, and onchain sleuth ZachXBT has named detained suspect Wojtek Kulisz as 'Merry', the threat actor behind years of social engineering thefts from crypto holders.
A reported 90%+ insider-held supply on a $6B-claimed valuation is the rug-pull red flag retail keeps walking into: when almost every token is one wallet away from the market, the chart is the trap.
The total is roughly equal to CoinEx's entire 2023 trading volume, and the IRGC and sanctioned Russian counterparties on the counterparty list turn this from a compliance story into a sanctions story.
No exploit, no hack, no announcement: the move happened on roughly $21M in volume, and the tokens that did move were the ones ZachXBT flagged months ago as insider-propped and venue-thin.
The Wall Street Journal tied the exchange to wallets linked to Iran's central bank and to the $1.5B Bybit hack, escalating a sanctions-evasion case that now names a venue, a central bank, and North…
The memecoin launchpad is dangling a top-of-market package as it faces live lawsuits and a widening US regulatory net around livestreams and token rewards.
The Alliance to End Human Trafficking argues a specific section would make it harder to oversee illicit activity, framing the bill as a moral as well as a regulatory question.
Noman Saleem gets over a year in prison and three years of supervised release for running bogus Telegram handles impersonating popular crypto influencers.
The action takes a server offline, not a company, but it pulls a known node from a FinCEN-flagged laundering network that processed scam and hack proceeds on chain.
The deal closes a class action over disclosure gaps in the 2023 all-stock merger, specifically energy and internet-related risks at the King Mountain Texas mining joint venture USBTC held pre-deal.
The settlement is small relative to Hut 8's 640% twelve-month share gain, but the litigation underscores how short-seller reports can drive lasting securities exposure for miners that have since…
Three wallets with a perfect-or-near-perfect hit rate on the same event funneled every dollar to the same Binance deposit address before going dark.
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