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Tether, Binance and a $1.5 billion Iran oil network converge in new US forfeiture case

US prosecutors are seeking to seize $61 million in Tether’s USDT tied to alleged black-market Iranian oil sales. On Sept. 14, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York filed a civil forfeiture complaint targeting approximately 61.2 million USDT across 10 Tron...

CoinEx quits after 9 years as crypto trading activity concentrates at biggest exchanges

Crypto exchange CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, citing shrinking revenue and rising compliance costs as the reasons the exchange is no longer viable. The centralized crypto platform said Sept. 15 that it will wind down operations in stages, ending spot trading on Sept....
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Tether, Binance and a $1.5 billion Iran oil network converge in new US forfeiture case

US prosecutors are seeking to seize $61 million in Tether’s USDT tied to alleged...

CoinEx quits after 9 years as crypto trading activity concentrates at biggest exchanges

Crypto exchange CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, citing shrinking revenue and rising...

7-day blockchain outage wipes out a full week of staking rewards after emergency aelf shutdown

aelf, a blockchain network built around its AELF MainChain and tDVV dAppChain, has restored...

Did crypto’s $20 Billion DeFi surge just get stolen by price inflation?

The central question behind DeFi's latest rebound is whether protocols gained fresh deployable liquidity...