Enforcement Actions

According to Protos, a UK gang was sentenced this week for stealing $5.4 million in cryptocurrency by impersonating police officers and creating fraudulent police websites. The trio—Hamza Bashir, 23, Kevin Nwamma, 25, and Anthony Ikenwe, 29—received sentences of six

The Blockchain Association publicly classified the CLARITY Act in July as a measure to combat cryptocurrency crime and strengthen law-enforcement cooperation. Federal rules would clearly allow investigators to trace illegal financial activity and bring more digital-asset activity under U.S. regulatory oversight. The bill would expand AML (anti-money laundering) obligations, sanctions compliance requirements, and registration and reporting rules for digital-asset exchanges, brokers, dealers, and

According to PANews on July 17, a White House teleprompter operator is under investigation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for allegedly profiting over $100,000 through bets on Trump speeches on the prediction market platform Kalshi. The company froze more than $90,000 in pro

According to Galaxy research head on X, the court scheduled a hearing for September 8 at 2:30 p.m. to review requests for Bitcoin Policy to intervene as a defendant and Digital Chamber to join as an amicus curiae in the Noah Doe case, which involves claims to dormant Bitcoin holdings attributed to S

According to ABC News, Gabriel Perez, who has operated Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in settlement talks with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations he placed winning bets on Kalshi prediction markets tied to Trump speeches. Kalshi flagged the trading pattern in March 2026 a

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a Rotterdam court after prosecutors said approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds could not be accounted for. The ruling issued Thursday also placed Stichting Knaken Payments, the foundation established to

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a Rotterdam court on Thursday, with prosecutors confirming that approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds cannot be accounted for. The ruling also placed Stichting Knaken Payments, the foundation established to

Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump's teleprompter operator for about a decade, is in negotiations with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations that he used insider knowledge to place bets on Kalshi about Trump's speeches, according to ABC News on Thursday. The alleged bets

Three men in the UK were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six years nine months to eleven years after orchestrating a cryptocurrency theft scheme that netted $5.4 million by impersonating police officers and creating fake police websites. Hamza Bashir, Kevin Nwamma, and Anthony Ikenwe

According to the UK Metropolitan Police, three men were recently sentenced in connection with a $5.4 million cryptocurrency theft scheme in which they impersonated police officers and created fake police websites to deceive victims. Hamza Bashir, 23, received a sentence of six years and nine

The US Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution on Wednesday declaring that former FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive executive clemency. The nonbinding resolution, S.Res. 772, was introduced by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair and ranking me

The U.S. Treasury designated four cryptocurrency wallets linked to the Central Bank of Iran, prompting stablecoin issuer Tether to freeze approximately $131 million in USDT held at the sanctioned addresses. The action follows a designation update by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign

The US Senate unanimously passed resolution S.Res. 772 on Wednesday, with bipartisan support declaring that former FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive executive clemency. Introduced by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), the nonbinding resolution reflects

According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. Treasury Department today sanctioned 4 cryptocurrency wallets linked to Iran's central bank, prompting Tether to freeze $131 million in USDT. The action brings the total frozen amount to approximately $475 million.

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz and former SEC official Marc Fagel disputed on X on July 13 over whether the SEC treated XRP as a security during its case against Ripple. Fagel argued the SEC case targeted Ripple's XRP sales practices rather than the crypto token itself, while Schwartz rejected t

On July 13, Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz disputed former SEC official Marc Fagel's claim that the SEC's case targeted only Ripple's sales practices, not XRP itself. According to Schwartz, the SEC applied a broader Howey theory treating XRP holders as partners in a shared venture expecting

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating a Trump administration official allegedly responsible for teleprompter operations over suspected insider trading on prediction market platform Kalshi. The individual allegedly used advance knowledge of presidential statements to b

According to BlockBeats, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution on July 16 with unanimous consent stating that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive a presidential pardon. The resolution was introduced by Senators Ruben Gallego and Cynthia Lummis and represents the Senate's formal