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Elliptic is a blockchain analytics company that tracks cryptocurrency transactions to detect fraud, hacks, and illicit finance for exchanges and governments.
A7A5 stablecoin transfers fell to 14 a day on Tron and 18 on Ethereum after Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers. Elliptic's Tom Robinson ties the two, though the issuer's own explanation so far is technical problems.
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Wells Fargo is in talks with Kraken parent Payward to supply liquidity and execution for the bank's crypto trading, per individuals familiar. Both companies declined to comment, and the report says a final agreement is not certain.
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Scott Bessent said the US could seize up to $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week, nearly twice the $550 million Tether says it helped freeze this year. How much work falls on issuers and exchanges depends on whether that figure is new money or USDT already frozen at blocked addresses.
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Japan froze the assets of Garantex, a Moscow crypto exchange that processed at least $96 billion, in Russia sanctions that took effect on October 2. Any exchange or payment firm that touches Garantex now carries Japanese legal risk on top of its US and EU exposure.
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ZachXBT says he fronted $349.7K in USDC to pose as a client of the Chinese syndicate laundering North Korea's Bybit haul. The only recovery on record, a 442K USDT freeze by Tether, covers at most 3.7% of the $12M+ cluster he says the sting exposed.
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Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.
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Near Intents halted its cross-chain swap service after a bug in its Omni deposit layer let an attacker take about $3.8 million. Crypto balances carry no deposit insurance, so affected users are relying on the operator's promise to repay them in full.
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Iran's central bank plans to block rial accounts at some crypto exchanges, after capping Tether purchases in September at 2,000 USDT per user a day. Losing those accounts would strip the exchanges of the local-currency deposits their core business converts into crypto.
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Bitget says attackers stole $387.5 million after exploiting zero-days in two third-party security appliances. Investigators say the appliances' privileged access led the attacker to its production wallet server.
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Wallets tied to the $387.5 million Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool on September 30. The deposit is about 1% of the theft, and across every route tracked so far roughly 13 dollars have gone dark for each dollar frozen.
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Bitget says attackers took over a wallet backend system and fed its authorization process spoofed data, moving out $387.5 million without stolen keys. For teams running payouts, the data an approver trusts now belongs on the same review list as the keys.
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Treasury puts Xinbi's throughput above $24bn since 2022 and TRM Labs says $36bn, but the Secret Service and Elliptic have frozen $52.8m, and the last two guarantee markets designated this way were replaced rather than removed.
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Elliptic and the US Secret Service froze 52 wallets holding $52.8 million in USDT on September 8. US sanctions followed a day later, Telegram deleted the channels the same day, and Xinbi says it is moving to a stablecoin nobody can freeze.
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Leaked files put $6.9 billion of the Kremlin-linked A7 network's money through correspondent banks, while TRM counts $166 billion of A7-linked crypto volume. After the sanctions, the daily turnover of its ruble token fell 96%.
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Article 143(3) ran out on 1 July 2026, so from that date Article 59 applies to EU client business without exception, and the register that decides who sits inside the perimeter is still being revised week by week.
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Seizure warrants across 2025 and 2026 reached domains, servers and one hosted IP rather than a fixed set of wallets. That moves the detection burden from screening known addresses toward spotting the channel that mints new ones.
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A memorandum dated August 12, 2026 lets vetted companies disrupt criminal networks under DOJ and DHS supervision. The entry ticket is a $1 million bond, according to Crypto Briefing.
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