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The minority staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reported on 28 September that 84 per cent of 846 wallets the US and Israel designated for links to Iran and its proxies transacted wholly or almost wholly in USDT, and that…
A verified complaint in Manhattan seeks forfeiture of 61,192,367.59 USDT across ten Tron addresses as the proceeds of Iranian oil sold to Chinese buyers. Its own table shows the issuer froze every one of them in June and July 2025.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control determined on 24 August that section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 now applies to the digital asset sector of the Iranian economy, so any person anywhere who operates in it may be designated.
A notice of 14 August tells users to stop transacting with sixteen platforms from three stated dates. Fourteen of the names, and the dates against them, reproduce Annex VIII of Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1848 entry for entry.
Coinkite warned that Coldcard devices generated seeds with too little entropy; within a day, onchain observers were attributing the draining of hundreds of bitcoin to keys an attacker could simply recompute.
The Council adds platforms in six jurisdictions to its Russia measures and creates, for the first time, a tool to bar dealings with any crypto provider used by Russia.
Security firm PeckShield reported $75.87m in losses from 40 crypto security incidents in June 2026, a decline of about 7% on the previous month, with an exploit of Humanity Protocol the largest single event.
Alpenglow, which replaces Solana's TowerBFT consensus with the Votor and Rotor components, activated on a community validator test cluster on 11 May 2026.
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