Enforcement Actions

The exploiter behind the Drift Protocol hack transferred 25,700 ETH, valued at approximately $61.56 million, to Tornado Cash after two months of inactivity. According to @lookonchain, the exploiter previously stole over $270 million and still holds approximately 81,864 ETH, valued around $195 millio

According to Bloomberg, in 2025 Founders Fund discovered that Polymarket CEO Coplan had used company funds to pay for personal expenses, including a private jet and apartment rent, despite the company generating no revenue at the time. Founders Fund required Coplan to improve financial controls and

According to Tether's September 28 disclosure, CEO Paolo Ardoino claimed the company froze Iran-linked cryptocurrency addresses an average of four weeks before official designations by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing

According to Onchain Lens, on October 20, the Drift Protocol attacker transferred at least 13.4K ETH (approximately $32 million) to Tornado Cash, likely to obfuscate fund tracking. The attacker's monitored wallet currently holds $224.5 million in assets, including 93,965 ETH.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated on Oct. 20 that trading volume in Iran-linked stablecoins fell 94% after the company froze wallets tied to sanctioned entities. The statement pushed back against recent analysis by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tether's sanctions compliance. Tether, the issuer

According to France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the regulator identified 25 unauthorized websites offering crypto assets or services in Q3 2026, including alphaairobot.com, aureoncorevix.net, and bitgrokapp.com, among others. Year-to-date, AMF has added 64 names to its blacklist. The

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino posted on X on Oct. 20, refuting the report “Entangled with Terrorism” from Democratic staff members of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The report examined 846 crypto wallets linked to Iran and its proxies and found that 84% used almost exclusively USDT. Ardoino explained, however, that in 99% of cases, the wallets had been frozen before being flagged. Senate PSI report: 34 of 39 Hezbollah addresses not frozen until March 2024 According to a rep

Thai immigration police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man surnamed Wu, who was wanted in China, at a luxury residence in Ramkhamhaeng, in Bangkok’s Saphan Sung district, on October 16, 2026. Police accused Wu of being involved in a transnational money-laundering network that processed more than 500 million Yuan (approximately $75 million) in transactions through over 133 bank accounts, and of allegedly providing cryptocurrency and foreign-exchange services to transnational criminal groups. Arre

According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino's recent statement on X, Iran-related stablecoin trading volume on the platform has declined 94% following enforcement of U.S. sanctions. Ardoino responded to a report by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, highlighting Tether's proactive measures in freezing sanct

According to BlockBeats, on October 20, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed court documents arguing that CME lacks legal standing to challenge its perpetual futures policy, stating CME has failed to demonstrate imminent financial harm. The CFTC noted that CME's crypto futures

According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino on October 20, Tether's compliance actions reduced Iran-related stablecoin transactions by 94% since 2023. Ardoino stated on X that Tether typically freezes addresses 4 weeks before the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Israel's

According to The Hacker News, President Trump granted Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, a full and unconditional pardon on January 21, 2025, after Ulbricht served more than eleven years in federal prison. The FBI arrested Ulbricht in October 2013 and seized

Richard Heart, founder of HEX, PulseChain, and PulseX, was detained by Turkish police and the National Intelligence Organization in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district under a Finland-requested Interpol Red Notice issued in December 2024. The detention triggered sharp market declines: HEX fell