Enforcement Actions

The US Department of Justice is reviewing whether Binance has complied with its 2023 settlement, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 9. Tyson Doubt, acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said in an interview that the department is assessing whether Binance is meeting the terms of the 202

According to The Defiant, a wallet linked to the CryptoBilis theft transferred 464 ETH to Tornado Cash today, on-chain data shows. The funds were routed through an intermediary address and then dispersed to four deposit wallets. The source address retains approximately 700 ETH.

India's Income Tax Department found that fewer than 25% of 645,000 people who traded cryptocurrency during the year ended March 2023 reported those transactions on their tax returns, according to government documents cited by Reuters. This discovery highlights significant gaps in crypto tax

The attacker behind the July hack of payment services firm Triple-A moved approximately $12.4 million worth of Ether to cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash on Oct. 9, according to Odaily. The hacker transferred 4,970 Ether through 56 separate transactions after consolidating funds from two

According to blockchain security firm Salus, the Triple-A hacker deposited 4,970 ETH (approximately $12.4 million) to Tornado Cash on October 9. The attacker, who stole assets from payment service provider Triple-A in July, executed the deposit through 56 transactions comprising 49 transfers

Two company officials received suspended prison sentences on Sept. 11 after a Seoul court convicted them of defrauding an investor who paid $36,000 for cryptocurrency tokens based on false promises of a major exchange listing within 90 days. The Seoul Eastern District Court found the men,

According to Foresight News and Bubblemaps analysis on October 10, crypto KOL Ethan's associated wallets profited approximately $125,000 through coordinated buy-then-pump-and-dump trading on Pump.fun across 49 tokens. The gains comprised $45,000 from direct trading and $80,000 from promotion

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing whether Binance violated its 2023 settlement agreement on October 9, while also investigating allegations that the exchange failed to prevent transactions related to Iranian sanctions. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office has

According to the US Department of Justice, the Manhattan US Attorney's Office and DOJ Criminal Division are reviewing whether Binance has complied with its November 2023 settlement agreement, with a focus on possible violations of US sanctions against Iran. On September 15, 2026, the DOJ filed a

According to WSJ, on October 10, a Binance internal investigation report revealed that Iranian financial figure Babak Zanjani operated a sanctions-evasion network involving 21 accounts with cumulative transaction volume of $850 million, moving funds for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that approximately $1 billion in Iran-linked cryptocurrency could be seized this week. The Block reported on October 9 that Bessent made the remarks a day earlier at Newsmax's NPolicy Summit in Washington, stating 'We know where the assets are, and we ar

India's Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has identified ₹888.82 crore ($104 million) in undisclosed cryptocurrency income and issued more than 44,000 tax notices to individuals and entities linked to virtual digital asset (VDA)

Bitcoin (BTC) saw a slight recovery, trading at around $82,720 on October 10. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said the United States plans to seize $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency linked to Iran this week. The U.K. government sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges and two payment platforms, accusing them of helping Russian entities evade financial sanctions. Two of them processed transactions for the Kremlin-backed A7 network, which moved more than $9 billion in funds last year. Macroecono

According to X account @blockchainchick, Tether's USDT contract on Ethereum since 2017 includes a destroyBlackFunds function that permanently sets blacklisted addresses' balance to zero. The function can only be called by Tether's multisig owner and is irreversible. The U.S. Department of Justice de

According to Bubblemaps, on October 10, pump.fun KOL 0xEthan with 88,000 followers is alleged to operate a pump-and-dump scheme: purchasing tokens, posting recommendations to followers, then selling through linked wallets. Bubblemaps reported the account made 49 posts and accumulated

According to a report published on October 9, cross-border payments company Conduit Technology filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing Tether of freezing approximately $2.76 million in USDT in the company’s treasury wallet since September 2025 and keeping the funds frozen for more than a year without providing a legal basis. The frozen treasury wallet processed 4,427 transactions over approximately four months, with a cumulative transaction volu

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James on October 10, under which he is permanently barred from entering the cryptocurrency, securities, and commodities industries, with the settlement amount totaling up to $35 million. The settlement resolves a 2023 civil fraud lawsuit alleging that Mashinsky misled hundreds of thousands of investors about the company's safety before its collapse in 2022. $35 Million Settlement Agreement: Payment Stru

According to Onchain Lens, the hacker associated with the $90 million Ledger reseller breach has deposited approximately $270,300 to Binance, including 256.57K USDT and 41.12K TRX (approximately $13,700). Most funds have been transferred to Binance hot wallets. Separately, the same hacker deposited

According to CryptoBilis, on October 10, the Ledger reseller suspended all sales and shipments of Ledger devices following an investigation by Ledger into asset losses among users who purchased devices through the channel. Users with

According to ChainCatcher, on October 8, the UK added four crypto and payment platforms to its sanctions list, bringing the total to 38 new designations. The entities—Xeltox Enterprises (linked to Cryptomus, Heleket, and Certa Payments Ltd), TokenSpot, Tsunami Payments, and Processing KG—face