Enforcement Actions

Elizabeth Warren will chair the Senate Banking Committee starting January 2027, gaining significant authority over hearings, investigations and crypto legislation. According to a banking committee aide, Warren's potential targets include Trump-linked crypto businesses such as World Liberty

According to the complaint filed in Colorado federal court on November 4, Kayleen Fulton, who led the Ethereum Foundation's protocol support team, sued the Foundation's Swiss and Singapore entities, co-executive director Bastian Aue, Vitalik Buterin, and two HR contractors, alleging wrongful

According to Slowmist, Tether froze 5 Ethereum addresses approximately 8 hours ago, holding a combined 24.35 million USDT. The addresses were last active in 2021 and 2023. Slowmist's tracking identified one of the frozen addresses as having interacted with wallets flagged for phishing and

According to Macau Radio and Television, on November 6, a Macau man allegedly defrauded a buyer by completing only a partial cryptocurrency transaction. The two parties had agreed to trade 640,000 USDT for 5 million Hong Kong dollars. After the buyer deposited the full amount at a casino in Macau's

According to the Korean Fair Trade Commission, on November 10, the regulator initiated a deliberation on Naver Financial and Dunamu's merger, citing competition concerns across 10 related markets. The FTC identified 12 combinations—horizontal, vertical, and mixed—with particular focus on the

According to Bubblemaps monitoring, crypto KOL Cupsey profited $1.74 million through 30 linked wallets trading over 27,000 tokens since May 7. Approximately 3,000 of the token operations generated profits from this activity. The pattern involved buying through Cupsey's public wallet, then

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said in an analysis published on Nov. 9 that money launderers are mass-producing memecoins that almost nobody buys and using DEX liquidity pools as “transit containers”: illicit funds enter the pool on one side and are exchanged for new tokens, then another set of wallets sells the tokens back to withdraw real assets. This avoids direct transfers between wallets holding illicit funds and recipient wallets. Elliptic assesses that the method is linked to the Nort

Former Ethereum Foundation protocol support lead Kayleen Fulton (known in the community as Nixo) has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Colorado, naming six parties, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, as defendants. Fulton alleges that she was fired 13 days after notifying management in writing that she had ovarian cancer, following her opposition to a manifesto containing a “source-code seppuku license.” The complaint alleges disability discrimination and retaliati

According to BlockBeats, on November 10, Ethereum Foundation employee Fulton filed a lawsuit against the EF, Vitalik Buterin, and other executives, alleging retaliatory termination, disability discrimination, and interference with medical leave. Fulton had opposed content in the EF Mandate

According to a complaint filed on November 4 in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, known as "Nixo" in the Ethereum community, sued the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin and others. Fulton alleges she was unlawfully dismissed after organizing staff opposition to the

CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics company founded in 2015, was acquired by Mastercard in October 2021. The payment giant later discontinued several CipherTrace products in March 2024. The company developed cryptocurrency anti-money laundering and blockchain analytics solutions covering more

According to Chainalysis's 2026 Crypto Crime Report, illicit cryptocurrency addresses received at least $154 billion in digital assets in 2025, a 162% year-over-year increase. Despite the record figure, illicit activity still represented less than 1% of total attributed on-chain transaction