Enforcement Actions

The US Treasury Department sanctioned eight Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange firms on November 7 for allegedly facilitating transactions that helped Iran evade financial sanctions. According to Cointelegraph, the firms enabled dealings involving Iranian crypto exchanges already under US sanction

According to the U.S. Treasury, on November 7, the department sanctioned 8 Canadian money services companies for facilitating transactions with Iranian entities and digital asset exchanges linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The sanctions restrict these firms' access to the U.

Moscow Exchange, Russia's largest exchange, announced on November 2 that it plans to launch cryptocurrency trading on December 1, introducing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether's USDT through its existing stock market infrastructure. The initiative aims to provide Russian investors with a regulated

According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions on eight Canadian money service companies today (November 7) for facilitating Iran sanctions evasion. The companies allegedly enabled currency exchange between Iranian rials and other currencies and digital assets, a

According to The New York Times, Vanderbilt University researchers discovered that a Polymarket user placed a nearly $200,000 bet on October 31 that Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts would win reelection. Approximately one hour later, a New York Times and Siena College joint poll showed Ricketts

Former FBI agent Patrick Steven Yaroch pleaded guilty to stealing $2,474,380 in cryptocurrency seized during an investigation, with a federal court in Virginia accepting the plea on November 7, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Yaroch used access credentials for crypto wallets obtained durin

According to ChainCatcher citing Observer Network, the abbot of Donglin Temple in Yilan, Taiwan, Zhang Qingyu, and his son Zhang Weifu, who is also a monk, are suspected of embezzling temple donations worth over 3.3 billion Taiwan dollars (approximately 70 million yuan). Investigators excavated

According to PANews, India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided three locations linked to CoinDCX and Delta Exchange on November 4-5, alleging unauthorized cross-border financial transactions involving crypto derivatives and RWA token trading. The alleged cross-border transactions reportedly involv

According to an order issued on Thursday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) told federally registered prediction markets, known as designated contract markets (DCMs), that they must remove restrictions barring traders based on their state of residence within 30 days. DCMs that cannot c