Over 1,600 victims handed $397M to a fund that promised crypto liquidity pool returns; the CFTC and SEC filed charges the same day, with Delgado already facing federal wire fraud counts.
The scale of the allegation puts investor protection and compliance risk at the center of the market impact, while the claims remain unproven in court.
Fraud losses, state bans, KYC rules and high fees are pushing the US Bitcoin ATM sector toward a broader business-model rethink.
The raid follows Russia's January ban on WhiteBit and treats unlicensed crypto desks as a sanctions-evasion vector funding Kyiv.
The decision keeps executive accountability at the center of crypto's post-FTX compliance debate.
MiCA turns authorization status into a frontline trust signal as EU users distinguish firms allowed to serve them from impersonators.
Tarsha allegedly drained SAFT proceeds into gambling, crypto speculation, and a Miami condo while staging a fake marketplace to keep investors in the dark.
The case lands before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, signaling federal prosecutors are treating NFT fraud with the same seriousness as the FTX collapse.
The law forces unlicensed operators to make victims whole, reframing the Bitcoin ATM from a quick-cash kiosk into a regulated money-transmission product.
Four wallets linked to the staffer bought 80% of supply for $10K then dumped for $638K, a textbook insider-extraction pattern that CZ himself called a scam.
Michael Coates, ex-Twitter and Mozilla security lead, says attackers are moving off smart contracts and onto people, with full spoofed voice calls as the near-term threat.
The layoffs hit hardest on employees two months out from multi-million-dollar token payouts, raising fresh questions about how memecoin platforms value and compensate the teams behind them.
The letters mimic official IRS correspondence and direct recipients to a "Digital Asset Compliance Portal" that does not exist, part of a broader wave of social-engineering attempts targeting crypto…
The confirmed take is 3.4M XRP from a one-week scam site, but Seoul police believe the real haul could approach $20M as investigators trace flows from blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube funnels.
Seoul's Metropolitan Police Agency tracked 3.4 million XRP on-chain and froze suspects' wallets within three days, but the market barely flinched.
The lawsuit alleges Apple promoted Sparrow impersonators inside curated crypto collections despite a year of warnings from the wallet's own developer, testing the App Store's 'safe and trusted' pitch…
The world's largest crypto exchange tells investigators to use slow treaty channels for most cases, while still answering direct calls on child exploitation, terrorism, and imminent threats to life.
A late-night comedy segment rarely moves a market, but this one lands on a sitting president's $1.4B crypto income stream and a $TRUMP memecoin already down 6% on the day.
Cross-platform spyware hiding in official app stores used OCR to lift wallet seed phrases straight out of users' camera rolls, with one Android app clearing 10K downloads before removal.
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.
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