2026-4-18 12:15 |
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Sanctioned crypto exchange Grinex halted trading after a suspected state-level cyberattack drained up to $15 million in crypto. Grinex said Thursday it had suspended operations after losing more than 1 billion Russian rubles, roughly $13.7 million, from 54 wallets in…
2026-4-17 10:24 | |
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The US Treasury just sanctioned six individuals and two entities tied to North Korea’s IT worker fraud network. This includes a Vietnamese company that allegedly laundered $2. 5M through crypto for the scheme.
2026-3-14 23:30 | |
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The US Senate has opened a formal inquiry into Binance after reports that the exchange processed nearly $1. 7 billion in transactions linked to sanctioned Iranian entities and Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers.
2026-2-26 10:59 | |
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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal announced a formal Senate inquiry into Binance after recent news reports revealed that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange allegedly facilitated nearly $1.7 billion in transactions tied to sanctioned Iranian entities and Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of…
2026-2-25 09:08 | |
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Global crypto exchange Binance has issued a detailed defense of its compliance program, saying recent media reports mischaracterize its regulatory controls and oversight efforts. Binance pushes back on sanctions claims In a blog post, the world’s largest crypto trading platform…
2026-2-23 10:34 | |
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Sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex might have lost $26 million in frozen Tether, but another $15 million in crypto is still moving, or at least quietly sitting. Weeks after the United States led a high-profile freeze of $26 million in Tether…
2025-6-20 14:50 | |
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Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the US, is reportedly back in business under a new name, Grinex, after moving funds and users to the platform. A report from Swiss blockchain analytics firm Global Ledger claims that Garantex has…
2025-3-20 10:07 | |
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The shuttered crypto exchange Garantex has allegedly resurfaced under a new name after reportedly laundering millions in ruble-backed stablecoins and transferring them to a newly established exchange, claims a Swiss blockchain analytics firm.
2025-3-20 05:57 | |
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Global Ledger's report reveals Grinex as a direct continuation of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex, surviving sanctions and arrests. Blockchain evidence links the two, showing illicit activities persist despite regulatory efforts.
2025-3-19 19:32 | |
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Indian police have arrested Aleksej Besciokov, co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. and the European Union for facilitating money laundering. Besciokov, a Lithuanian national, was detained in Varkala, Kerala, under India’s extradition law, according to…
2025-3-13 21:39 | |
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US and European law enforcement agencies disrupted Garantex, a Russia-linked crypto exchange accused of laundering billions of dollars for cybercriminals, drug traffickers, and sanctioned entities, the Justice Department announced Friday.
2025-3-9 04:00 | |
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Garantex was sanctioned in 2022 for facilitating money laundering for ransomware actors and darknet markets.
2025-3-9 21:31 | |
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Sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex has halted operations following Tether’s decision to freeze $27 million worth of USDT on the platform. In a March 6 announcement on Telegram, the exchange confirmed a temporary suspension of crypto trading and withdrawals, citing Tether’s decision to freeze its funds.
2025-3-7 16:44 | |
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Sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex has shut down its services shortly after Tether froze nearly 2.5 billion in worth of USDT in Russian rubles. Russia‘s largest and sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange Garantex has temporarily shut down all of its services after Tether…
2025-3-7 12:46 | |
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The hacker responsible for stealing over $235 million from the Indian crypto exchange WazirX has transferred around $10 million through sanctioned Tornado Cash in the past 24 hours, according to blockchain security firm Cyvers.
2024-9-5 16:46 | |
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Nearly 30% of all crypto traced from illicit addresses since 2019 ended up at sanctioned services like Russia’s crypto exchange Garantex, according to Chainalysis. Cryptocurrency exchanges have received nearly $100 billion worth of crypto from well-known illicit addresses since 2019,…
2024-7-12 17:12 | |
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Treasury’s OFAC has sanctioned the Russian developer of LockBit, who transferred crypto to various illicit services, including sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex, Chainalysis says. Dmitry Khoroshev, a Russian developer of the ransomware program called LockBit which has been recently sanctioned by…
2024-5-8 13:44 | |
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The Gary Gensler-led Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began investigating Ethereum’s security status last year, according to an April 29 court filing by Consensys. The filing disclosed that Gurbir Grewal, the Director of the Division of Enforcement, sanctioned the Formal Order of Investigation concerning ‘Ethereum 2.
2024-4-29 19:45 | |
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Two lawyers for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were forced to resign after a federal judge sanctioned the agency last month for committing a “gross abuse of power” while attempting to secure a temporary restraining order against Utah-based crypto company Debt Box, according to a Monday report from Bloomberg.
2024-4-23 22:42 | |
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North Korea-backed Lazarus group has stepped up their use of sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash, moving over $100 million worth of Ethereum through the platform in the past week. According to blockchain security firm PeckShield, addresses linked to the exploiters of Justin Sun-linked HTX exchange and Heco Bridge have transferred 40,391 ETH, equivalent to $145.
2024-3-22 16:13 | |
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OFAC has sanctioned two Russians involved in a pro-Kremlin influence campaign, while Chainalysis found that at least one of them received funds from crypto exchange Garantex. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions…
2024-3-22 16:23 | |
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A United States district court has sanctioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for demonstrating “bad faith” in its legal actions against Debt Box, a company accused of operating a $50-million fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.
2024-3-19 10:51 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been sanctioned over its disputed restraining order against the crypto firm DEBT Box, according to a March 18 court filing. As a result of the SEC’s misconduct, the court has mandated the commission to cover the legal fees, costs, and expenses incurred by DEBT Box.
2024-3-19 04:14 | |
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Crypto think tank Coin Center has been one of the most critical voices against the U. S. Treasury and the sanctions imposed on the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Tornado Cash. The platform was sanctioned by the U.
2022-10-13 21:44 | |
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Crypto exchange Bittrex will pay the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions and money laundering watchdogs $30 million to settle allegations it maintained a poor compliance program between 2014 and 2017, allowing individuals from sanctioned jurisdictions to trade on the platform.
2022-10-12 17:57 | |
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said he would rather shut down the exchange's Ethereum staking service than bow to U.S. government demands to censor sanctioned transactions. The post Coinbase Would Quit Ethereum Staking if Pressured to Censor Transactions, Says CEO appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-8-19 16:00 | |
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In a tweet, Brian Armstrong expressed his preference not to censor transactions to and from sanctioned addresses after Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake.
2022-8-19 19:43 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange dYdX said it blocked user accounts with an association with Tornado Cash, the crypto-mixing service recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury.
2022-8-11 12:37 | |
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Per a press release, the U. S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against Tornado Cash, a decentralized exchange (DEX). The institution added the website tornado. cash, the entities associated, and several Ethereum-based addresses to their Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN).
2022-8-8 19:35 | |
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The United States Treasury Department suspects that crypto exchange Kraken has violated the United States sanctions by allowing users from sanctioned regions to trade digital tokens and opened a federal investigation to reveal the truth, The New York Times reported.
2022-7-29 21:13 | |
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Crypto asset exchange of digital assets Binance has suspended accounts with ties to Russian government officials’ relatives. Faced with escalating international sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the trading platform stated that it will continue to screen customers for connections to sanctioned persons.
2022-4-30 13:32 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Chatex is the latest one to be sanctioned by the Biden administration for facilitating financial transactions for hackers. An analysis of the exchange’s known transactions indicates that over half are “directly traced to illicit or high-risk activities such as darknet markets, high-risk exchanges, and ransomware,” said the US Treasury Department in a statement.
2021-11-10 22:55 | |
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Suex. io cryptocurrency exchange has been sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for allegedly facilitating ransomware payments for hackers. The President Joe Biden administration has intensified efforts to curb ransomware attacks in the country, according to reports on September 21, 2021.
2021-9-22 17:00 | |
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The U. S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a pair of Chinese nationals who participated in a money laundering scheme involving a cyberattack on a cryptocurrency exchange orchestrated by the infamous Lazarus Group.
2020-3-4 04:12 | |
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The Office of Foreign Assets and Control (OFAC) the enforcement body of the U. S. Treasury Department, sanctioned two Chinese nationals who played a part in laundering illicit funds linked to a crypto exchange hack.
2020-3-4 20:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency startup ParagonCoin announced that it will be selling a property that was going to be used as a cannabis co-working space. The information was released by ParagonCoin in a recent SEC filing.
2019-4-24 02:17 | |
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Customers of the Poloniex exchange can now trade and redeem Atoms without any hassle. Poloniex, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms, and indeed the only one where ICO participants are free to redeem their tokens, just sanctioned the service.
2019-4-23 19:50 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a statement in which the agency informs that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) must be compliant with securities laws. Two ICOs that have been sanctioned for selling unregistered securities are Paragon and AirFox.
2018-11-22 09:08 | |
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Exchanges Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has announced its plan to enter the Japanese market pending approval by the country’s financial regulator. Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Coinsquare Launching in Japan Coinsquare made two announcements on Tuesday.
2018-7-12 06:19 | |
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Token edges ahead of bitcoin and ether over seven days, though thinning participation keeps the move in consolidation territory.
Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a quantum algorithm breaks it, and what Google's paper changed about the timeline.
"[The] proposed changes are intended to stabilize price, dampen cyclicality, drive liquidity, and grow demand," said Executive Chairman Michael Saylor.
The project is also expanding its partnerships with Tinder, Zoom and Docusign.
Oil prices slumped as Trump said Iran committed to open the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. plans to acquire that country's enriched uranium as part of a deal.
Bitcoin climbed above its 100-day moving average, while Strategy moves back above its 200-week trend level.
Hedera (HBAR) joined Stellar (XLM) as a top performer, rising 1.4% from Thursday.