TRM Labs and the WSJ reveal how CoinEx became Iran's go-to international crypto gateway — processing $2.7B with Nobitex alone, $6M for IRGC wallets, and even funds from North Korea's Bybit hack.
World leaders at the Évian G7 summit officially classified DPRK crypto heists as a weapons-financing threat. Seven nations. $6.75 billion stolen. Zero arrests.
CZ praised Hyperliquid's no-KYC trading model and said he'd 'never' run a platform like it. Then OKX's founder revealed CZ has been quietly backing Aster DEX — a Hyperliquid clone built without KYC.
The Second Circuit unanimously rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's final appeal on June 12, locking in his 25-year sentence. His projected release date is 2044. Trump already said no to a pardon.
A Reuters investigation tracked four Trump crypto ventures — WLFI, $TRUMP memecoin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — and found a near-perfect transfer of wealth: $2.3 billion to the Trump family, $2.25 billion in losses for retail investors.
Alexander Browder, the teenage son of Putin's most famous enemy, published a report exposing Russia's A7A5 ruble stablecoin — a $90B-per-year sanctions-evasion machine partly owned by a Russian state bank. Moscow's response: put him on the list.
OFAC just sanctioned Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange. The founders — members of the Kharrazi dynasty tied to all three supreme leaders — registered the company under a fake surname to hide who they really were.
Operation Economic Fury has seized nearly $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto wallets. Treasury Secretary Bessent says some owners are 'typing in right now and not have realized their wallet had been grabbed.'
In 30 days, Tether silently blacklisted 371 wallets and froze $515 million in USDT across Tron and Ethereum — no court order required. That's 40% of everything they froze in all of 2025, done in a single month. Here's how the kill switch works, who's using it, and what it means for crypto.
Kraken's parent Payward just sued its former custodian Etana for misappropriating $25 million in client funds in what it calls a 'Ponzi-like' scheme. Etana allegedly stalled withdrawals with fake reconciliation issues while plugging holes with new deposits.
The FBI coordinated with Dubai Police and Thai authorities to bust 276 people across 9 pig butchering scam centers — the same fraud method that put Trump's World Liberty Financial in headlines last week.
Britain's financial watchdog hit eight London crypto shops in a single day — marking the country's first-ever coordinated crackdown on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading.
Operation Atlantic, a joint US-UK-Canada law enforcement strike, froze $12M and traced $45M in crypto approval phishing fraud across 30+ countries. Here's what that means for the industry.
Grinex — the sanctions-dodging successor to Russia's notorious Garantex — shut down after a $13M hack and blamed 'Western special services.' The irony is too rich.
The DOJ just opened compensation claims for the biggest crypto fraud in history. The math is brutal: $40 million recovered, $4 billion stolen, Cryptoqueen still on the run.
The CFTC settled with Nishad Singh — FTX's ex-engineering chief who built the backdoor that let Alameda silently drain billions in customer funds. The case is closed. The industry can stop looking over its shoulder. Almost.
The DOJ just unsealed charges against 10 crypto executives in a massive wash trading sting called Operation Token Mirrors. The FBI built its own Ethereum token — NexFundAI — to bait them. Here's the full breakdown and what it means for the industry.