Enforcement Actions

According to BlockBeats, Shandong police on October 14 reported a case where a digital wallet containing 1,300 USDC and NFT assets worth tens of thousands of yuan was stolen. Police conducted on-chain transaction analysis to trace the funds and identified suspect Chen, a 30-year-old from Fengyang

According to Puyuan News and Tianjin's Second Intermediate People's Court, the court accepted on September 28 a prosecution application to confiscate assets from Qian Zhimin, who is suspected of fundraising fraud involving over 40 billion yuan. The assets include 618,000+ Bitcoin and other

According to Chinapex News, Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court accepted on October 13 the prosecution's application to seize assets from Qian Zhimin, who is accused of a fraud scheme involving over 40 billion yuan. The court's seizure list includes 61,800+ Bitcoin, 72,745.80 Bitcoin

According to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to CoinDesk, the Philippines’ largest cryptocurrency exchange, Coins.ph, is facing disciplinary action from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippine central bank, reportedly for processing transactions on behalf of restricted offshore online gambling companies. The sources said the matter is serious enough that the 12-year-old company could lose its operating license. BSP Restricted DCPay Deposit Channels in Early October; M

According to an October 14 report, the final rule adopted by the U.S. SEC and effective October 2 (Rule 34-106537) is intended to “promote flexibility and decisiveness in agency rulemaking.” In most cases, the new rule lowers the quorum requirement: when only two commissioners are present, a single commissioner can constitute a quorum and adopt formal rules. On the same day the rule took effect, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce officially departed. New SEC Rule: One of Two Commissioners Present Ca

According to ChainCatcher, reporting SolanaFloor, a TOKEN2049 participant has submitted a police report to Singapore authorities regarding a cybersecurity event called "Don't Get Played" held during the conference. The organizers, reportedly affiliated with Apex Accelerator and Stone Venture, have b

When a cryptocurrency exchange gets blocked in India, Crypto Tax in India obligations do not automatically disappear for affected investors. On September 9, 2026, the Financial Intelligence Unit of India (FIU-IND) served non-compliance notices to 15 platforms dealing with virtual digital assets,

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are advancing crypto regulation with only three commissioners in place across both agencies, Cointelegraph reported on Oct. 13. The SEC currently has two commissioners — Chairman Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda —

According to CoinDesk, Coins.ph, a Philippine cryptocurrency exchange, faces regulatory penalties from the Philippine central bank (BSP) on October 14, with the platform potentially risking license revocation due to alleged violations involving processing transactions for restricted offshore

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has initiated a crackdown on West African scam networks through collaboration with blockchain analysis company Chainalysis and other law enforcement and tech companies. The operation has led to the identification of hundreds of unique scammer identifiers and the

According to Chainalysis, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently seized over $10 million and identified hundreds of unique scammer identifiers in a significant crackdown on West African scam networks. The operation was conducted in collaboration with law enforcement and tech companies,

Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market, recorded $3.91 billion in notional volume on October 10, 2026, followed by $3.96 billion on October 11, breaking its prior single-day record of $3.68 billion set on October 4. The surge was driven by parlay-style combo contracts, which accounted for

According to the U.S. Department of Justice announcement on October 13, authorities arrested two American citizens and seized approximately 187 computer devices in a crackdown on North Korean IT personnel operating under false identities to infiltrate U.S. companies. Michael James Bostelle from

Elliptic has been named a private industry partner in the US Justice Department's Joint Disruption Week: Africa, an initiative targeting West African scam networks. The operation, conducted in collaboration with the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), resulted in 28 arrests and the identification

Elliptic announced its involvement as a private sector partner in the Justice Department's Joint Disruption Week: Africa initiative, targeting West African scam networks. The collaborative effort with the UK's National Crime Agency resulted in 28 arrests and the identification of $11 million in

Kalshi and Polymarket will be excluded from the Federal Trade Commission's probe into deceptive practices in the $167 million online sports gambling industry, sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Sun. The two crypto-linked prediction markets are not a focus of the FTC

According to The Washington Sun, the Federal Trade Commission recently excluded crypto-linked prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket from its probe into deceptive practices in the $167 million online sports gambling industry. The FTC investigation will instead focus on sportsbooks like

Evernorth Holdings shareholders voted on a plan to take an XRP treasury company public in September without knowing that a critical bug in the XRP Ledger could have allowed hackers to mint trillions of new XRP tokens beyond the network's fixed 100 billion supply. The vulnerability was privately

9/11 victims and families filed a statement of interest claiming rights to Bitcoin seized by the US government from the LuBian.com mining pool. The claimants, known collectively as the Chairnoff Claimants, hold judgments totaling more than $671 million in compensatory damages against the Islamic