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The action reaches beyond two exchanges to Shelbit’s operator and his cross-border corporate network, raising the compliance stakes for firms handling Iran-linked crypto flows.
OFAC's designation of Persian Gulf Marine Insurance and HormuzSafe puts every foreign shipper paying in BTC on the wrong side of US secondary-sanctions exposure, in a chokepoint already pricing…
The freeze shows Tether acting as an enforcement node on behalf of Western sanctions, while parallel moves in Washington and London point to a coordinated push to put stablecoins inside the same…
The freeze ties up only a slice of the $475M Tether has now blocked from the Central Bank of Iran, but it hands every venue a ready-made address list to screen against.
The two Tron-wallet freezes represent a structural shift: Washington can now reach dollar liquidity held directly on a public blockchain by leaning on the stablecoin issuer's blacklist, bypassing the…
OFAC's designation of wallets tied to Iran's central bank is the largest US crypto sanctions action this cycle and sets a clear template for tracing state-linked on-chain funds.
Four TRON addresses were blocked in a single coordinated action, with most of the funds traced to payment service DTC Pay and exchange Bitso, underscoring how on-chain tracing now feeds directly into…
OFAC's action targets wallets tied to Iran's central bank, the latest escalation in the US sanctions-by-crypto playbook that traders tracked through 2024.
The Treasury action bundles sanctions against ISIS-K's Tron-Monero rails with a $30M Brazil-linked PCC laundering network, sharpening the role of centralized stablecoin issuers in actual enforcement.
The action follows OFAC's designation of 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-Khorasan, including 131 TRON addresses that Chainalysis says moved more than $2.28M since 2023.
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…
Nobitex is the headline name, but the action lands on the same week Treasury confirmed roughly $1B seized from Iranian crypto infrastructure — a pressure campaign that is now treating digital-asset…
The United States has sanctioned Nobitex and several other Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges as part of a coordinated…
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges — Nobitex, Bitpin, Ramzinex, and…
A federal lawsuit asks a judge to order Tether to transfer OFAC-frozen USDT tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard to victims holding unpaid terrorism judgments — a precedent that would pin liability for…
The motion targets two IRGC-linked addresses holding 344,149,759 USDT and seeks to satisfy roughly $2.42B in unpaid terrorism judgments against Iran.
The case hinges on a stablecoin-specific legal hook: Tether already froze OFAC-designated Tron wallets, and the plaintiffs want the court to order it to reissue that USDT to terrorism-judgment…
Bessent's OFAC action is one of the largest single freezes tied to Tehran's on-chain infrastructure and signals the Treasury no longer treats crypto as peripheral to sanctions enforcement.
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