Enforcement Actions

Bitcoin provisionally stood at $81,270 on September 20, extending its rebound that began on September 18. The U.S. SEC and CFTC each took multiple Crypto regulatory actions within two days after the CLARITY Act was blocked in the Senate. The SEC formally launched an “innovation exemption,” allowing eligible Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs) to conduct on-chain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks, with the exemption valid for five years. CFTC Filing RIN 3038-AF80: Overview of the Crypto Market Regu

According to Forbes, citing a joint alert from FBI and Japan's National Police Agency, North Korea-linked hacker group WaterPlum (also known as Contagious Interview) targeted global IT developers from December 2025 to July 2026. The group impersonated companies in AI, cryptocurrency, and NFT

Lam Chun-yin, a former customer relationship manager at China Construction Bank (Asia), has been sentenced to four years in prison after falsely authenticating letters of credit worth more than $1.6 billion while receiving more than $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes. The 32-year-old had previously p

According to FinanceFeeds, Lam Chun-yin, a former customer relationship manager at China Construction Bank (Asia), has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to repay over $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to falsely authenticating letters of credit

According to ChainCatcher, South Korean police identified 26 Polymarket users through blockchain analysis and public on-chain intelligence. Eighteen of the users have been referred to prosecutors on suspicion of illegal gambling, with cumulative bets totaling $12.7 million. The highest individual be

Lam Chun-yin, a former customer relationship manager at China Construction Bank (Asia), was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to make restitution of more than $470,000 he received in cryptocurrency bribes, The Standard reported on Saturday. The 32-year-old had pleaded guilty in

According to ChainCatcher, a former Hong Kong banking executive was recently sentenced after forging documents to fraudulently obtain over HK$1.6 billion in loans. The executive used the proceeds to purchase Bitcoin and engage in cryptocurrency-related bribery

According to Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance ended its partnership with Polymarket in April and removed a hub on its site that displayed the prediction market platform's probability data on economic, government, and market outcomes. Yahoo said the agreement to display Polymarket data had concluded,

According to Crypto in America, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Clear Act this week with a 49-50 vote, with Democrats voting against the crypto market structure bill and three Republican senators (Collins, Hawley, Moran) joining the opposition. Following the bill's defeat, regulatory focus

Tether blacklisted eighteen cryptocurrency addresses holding approximately $3.75 million in USDT on September 17, with nearly all frozen funds concentrated on the Tron network. On-chain monitoring service USDTBanList recorded seventeen newly restricted Tron addresses holding a combined $3.15 million

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market rulemaking initiative to the White House for review on September 17. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs received the CFTC submission under the title 'Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset

According to FinanceFeeds, Brazil's central bank has prohibited banks and regulated financial institutions from processing transactions with unlicensed virtual-asset service providers (VASPs) starting 30 October 2026. The move affects approximately 120 unlicensed crypto firms and forces foreign

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Precision Identification and Targeting Team (PITT) has been using financial transaction records obtained from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to provide tips on "potential criminal suspects" to local law

According to alerts issued jointly by Japan's National Police Agency, FBI, ASD/ACSC, BND, and BfV, North Korean-linked cybercriminal group WaterPlum (also known as Contagious Interview) has targeted job seekers by posing as AI, cryptocurrency, and NFT companies. The group distributed fake job

The SEC and CFTC are taking action to address cryptocurrency regulatory gaps following the failure of the Clarity Act procedural vote. According to K33 Research, the agencies are responding to legislative delays by leveraging existing regulatory authority. The move reflects an effort to establish

According to K33 Research, the SEC and CFTC are taking swift action to address regulatory gaps following the procedural failure of the Clarity Act vote. The agencies are leveraging their existing authority to establish clearer oversight guidelines for cryptocurrencies and fill regulatory voids

According to Chainalysis research published Thursday, malicious instructions stored on public blockchains have increased 440% since the emergence of unrestricted Chinese open-source AI models, rising from an average of 2.06 blockchain writes per day to 11.1 in less than a year. The technique,