Enforcement Actions

According to ChainCatcher, Balancer sent on-chain messages to wallets linked to the August 31 protocol exploit, offering a bounty for returning the stolen $234,000. The team pledged not to pursue legal action if the funds are returned by September 9 at 5 UTC. If no response is received by the

Robinhood Chain's AMC-linked token briefly surged to $18.04 early Friday, more than six times the underlying stock price of $2.54, before rapidly declining back to around $2.67, according to The Defiant. The deepest AMC/USDG liquidity pool recorded $10.2 million in trading volume during the spike,

Polish lawmakers failed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki's veto of crypto oversight legislation on Friday, with the Sejm voting 241-198 in favor of overriding the veto—25 votes short of the 266 needed for the three-fifths majority. The vote marked another unsuccessful attempt to advance Poland's

According to FinCEN analysis released Thursday, U.S. authorities linked approximately $12.7 billion in suspicious financial activity to crypto investment scams operated from Southeast Asian compounds. About 1,300 institutions submitted 33,904 suspicious activity reports covering the period from

According to Bitcoin.com News, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron demanded Friday that Robinhood cease trading AMC Stock Tokens, calling the product "contemptible, outrageous, inexcusable" and arguing the company never authorized it. In an X post, Aron questioned how such a product could trade

Kalshi has not filed its Supreme Court opposition brief as of this writing, but the prediction market company's executives have publicly outlined their legal strategy following New Jersey's Sept. 2 certiorari petition. CEO Tarek Mansour stated that a new CFTC rule clarifying Rule 40.11 is expected w

According to FinCEN, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified approximately $12.7 billion in financial activity suspected of being connected to digital asset investment fraud during an analysis period spanning September 8, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The determination was based o

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez issued a consumer alert Sept. 3 after a Connecticut resident lost $200,000 deposited into an unregulated decentralized finance cryptocurrency exchange. The resident was deceived by someone claiming to know them, and

A 43-year-old cryptocurrency investment company operator was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and 5 years disqualification by Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 21 (Judge Jo Sun-pyo) for espionage activities under the National Security Act. A received approximately 660 million won in cr

According to Seoul Central District Court, a 43-year-old virtual asset investment company operator was recently sentenced to five years in prison for violating the National Security Act on charges of espionage. The court found that the man received approximately 666 million won in cryptocurrency

According to Odaily, Connecticut's Attorney General William Tong and Bank Commissioner Jorge Perez issued a consumer alert on September 3 after a resident deposited $200,000 on an unregulated offshore DeFi platform with no recovery. The alert listed seven platforms: GMX, Gains Network, dYdX, Aevo, D

Federal prosecutors and British authorities established a joint framework on Sept. 3 to pursue transnational networks operating cryptocurrency and cyber-enabled investment scams. The cooperation agreement joins the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia with the Crown Prosecution

According to Justice Department officials, the U.S. and U.K. established a joint framework on Sept. 3 to pursue transnational networks operating cryptocurrency and cyber-enabled investment scams. The agreement links the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia with the Crown Prosecution S

The $SLINK token crashed over 80% following the deletion of a tweet that had linked to its contract address. A post by @shivon that included the $SLINK contract address drew interaction from Elon Musk, pushing the token's market capitalization to $80 million. The crash occurred after the tweet was d

According to The Block, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on September 5 to review a Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Kalshi case. In 2025, New Jersey issued a cease-and-desist letter to Kalshi, alleging the company violated

According to Yonhap News, a 34-year-old South Korean man was sentenced to one year imprisonment by Chuncheon District Court on charges of violating the Specific Financial Information Act. Between January and June 2026, the defendant operated an unauthorized virtual asset withdrawal channel on

Washington State Department of Financial Institutions filed charges Sept. 3 against GPD Holdings LLC, doing business as Coinflip, and CEO Benjamin Weiss, seeking to revoke the company's money transmitter license, impose a $1,029,600 fine, and ban both the company and Weiss from the industry. The

According to Bitcoin.com News, Coinflip and its CEO Benjamin Weiss face license revocation and a $1.0296 million fine from Washington state's Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) for violating the Uniform Money Services Act (UMSA), following a 2025 inspection. The DFI cited insufficient

According to FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified approximately $12.7 billion in cryptocurrency transactions linked to suspected scam operations run by overseas criminal organizations. The figure comes from analysis of more than 33,000 reports