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Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old former universal banker at Ameris Bank in the Atlanta area, has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly using client banking data to link six accounts to Coinbase wallets controlled by accomplices.
The US Treasury has sanctioned a financing network involving two French associations, accusing them of converting charitable donations into cryptocurrency that reached Hamas's armed wing. Three people were arrested in France.
Industry groups poured $8 million into pushing the Clarity Act through Congress, but the bill fell one vote short in the Senate on September 15. Regulators are now delivering parts of the industry's agenda through rulemaking instead.
A US Senate subcommittee investigation into more than 800 sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Tehran found the overwhelming majority operated almost exclusively in USDT, prompting Tether to disclose its own freezing figures and cooperation with law enforcement.
A Wall Street Journal report says Polymarket was targeted by an attempted fraud worth roughly $10 million while compliance staff warned for months about weak safeguards, as the platform prepares for record trading volume around November's US midterms.
A group calling itself "iamnotavillain" claims to have obtained data on 680 Revolut customers by hijacking the certified email account of an Italian prefecture, demanding 6,000 XMR in ransom. Revolut denies any system breach.
Nasdaq Ventures has taken a $100 million stake in Payward, Kraken's parent, deepening a March partnership on tokenised equities as exchanges from ICE to CME jostle for position ahead of possible SEC approval in 2026.
A Solana token called Trump Digital Gold, promoted by a certified X account linked to Real Trump Coins, lost 99% of its value within under three hours of launch on August 29, wiping out a peak market cap of $66 million.