Enforcement Actions

The Digital Chamber filed suit in Sangamon County circuit court on July 21 against Illinois' Digital Asset Tax Act, which imposes a 0.2% tax on digital asset transactions set to take effect January 1, 2027. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the tax, which Governor JB Pritzker signed in

The Digital Chamber filed suit in Sangamon County on July 21 against Illinois' newly enacted Digital Asset Tax Act, which imposes a 0.2% tax on digital asset transfers, exchanges, and storage. The tax takes effect January 1, 2027, and is projected to raise approximately $60 million annually. Illinoi

According to Circle's announcement on July 10, 2026, Circle received final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust, placing the company's $73.2B USDC under direct federal oversight for the first time. However, the GENIUS Act, signed into law on July 18, 2025, prohibits US-regulated

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) public comment period on proposed prediction market rules closes on 27 July, leaving five days for exchanges, sports leagues, state regulators and traders to influence a framework that will determine which event contracts US platforms can list. The s

According to Polymarket's statement on X, the prediction market platform has expressed disappointment with France's gambling regulator's unilateral decision to block its website. The platform plans to challenge the ruling through French legal

The US Department of Justice filed five civil forfeiture complaints on Tuesday seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency allegedly tied to international investment, romance and recovery scams targeting victims in Canada and the United States. The assets were recovered through separate

According to the US Department of Justice, the DOJ filed five civil forfeiture complaints on Tuesday seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency tied to international investment and romance scams targeting victims in Canada and the United States. The assets were recovered through

France and the Czech Republic have ordered internet service providers to block access to prediction-market platform Polymarket, classifying it as unauthorized gambling. France's Autorité Nationale des Jeux issued the ISP block order on July 16, while the Czech Ministry of Finance added Polymarket to

European regulators escalated enforcement against Polymarket on July 16 and July 13, with France's gambling authority ordering internet service providers to block the platform after detecting 578,751 visits from France in June 2026, and the Czech Republic adding Polymarket to its unauthorized gambli

According to Foresight News, SecondFi's investigation, conducted by independent forensic firm Groom Lake on behalf of EMURGO, has identified two separate attackers behind the Cardano wallet service's security breach. The primary attacker used advanced techniques with indicators overlapping with

According to filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Movement Labs, an original developer of the Movement blockchain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 15 following over a year of turmoil involving the MOVE token, internal governance issues, and

According to The Block, U.S. prosecutors are seeking to seize over $25 million in cryptocurrency assets linked to international fraud investigations.