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Treasury sanctioned Iran's Nobitex exchange Sunday under the 'Economic Fury' campaign, targeting Tehran's crypto rails as a sanctions-evasion channel.
OFAC widened crypto sanctions against Tehran-based Nobitex on Wednesday, blacklisting fresh wallet clusters tied to Iran's largest digital-asset venue.
OFAC blacklisted Nobitex and three other Iranian crypto exchanges Tuesday, naming several executives and citing ties to terror financing and sanctions evasion.
Iran says a draft accord gives it control over the Strait of Hormuz and access to $12B in frozen assets, a geopolitical jolt crypto desks are pricing into BTC.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has seized $1B in crypto tied to Iran's government under Operation Economic Fury, with the figure still climbing.
UK Treasury sanctioned 18 crypto firms on Friday, ordering British businesses to freeze assets tied to a $90B Russian war-finance network.
The UK sanctioned Justin Sun's HTX and several crypto firms over alleged Russia ties, barring British banks from transactions routed through them.
Iran is pressing the US to release $6B in frozen funds as renewed talks complicate the global crypto sanctions framework and compliance burdens.
US and Iran are nearing a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift oil sanctions, per CryptoBriefing, easing a key risk premium for risk assets including…
A leaked US-Iran draft pairs an immediate ceasefire with sanctions relief and a crypto carve-out that could reshape stablecoin flows and trade settlement.
US Treasury sanctioned more than 50 firms and vessels tied to Iran's shadow banking Tuesday, freezing nearly $500M in regime crypto holdings worldwide.
Iran is pushing a Bitcoin-settled marine cargo insurance platform targeting $10B in premiums tied to Strait of Hormuz shipping, Decrypt reported Monday.
Iran's Hormuz Safe is settling Strait of Hormuz cargo insurance in Bitcoin, AMBCrypto reported Monday, routing premiums around sanctioned reinsurance rails.
CertiK says North Korean operatives laundered billions in stolen crypto and are now embedding agents inside firms, marking a shift from pure cyber tactics.
Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, has avoided OFAC sanctions even as Tehran tightens internet controls after February's US-Israel strikes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned Chinese entities Friday for supplying satellite imagery to Iran, a move that tightens US-China tensions and crypto…
Russia introduced a sweeping crypto bill on Monday legalizing licensed exchange trading, sanctioning crypto in foreign trade, and tightening P2P and mining…
TRM Labs says DPRK-linked actors have stolen about $577M in 2026, 76% of all crypto hack losses, after major hits on KelpDAO and Drift Protocol.
The EU adopted a 20th Russia sanctions package on April 23, banning ruble-backed stablecoins and penalizing users of Russian crypto services. 120 new listings.
Treasury sanctioned China's Hengli Petrochemical on Monday for Iranian crude purchases, a move that risks tightening global oil supply and feeding crypto's…
Bitcoin tagged $78,000 as US-Iran tensions escalated, the Treasury froze $344M in Tether, and IBIT options open interest passed Deribit on Friday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tether froze $344M in wallets tied to Iran's IRGC on April 24, the largest single sanctions action against crypto to date.
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