Coinbase’s law enforcement requests rose 66% in 2022

Coinbase exchange, in its 4th transparency report, revealed that law enforcement requests for information on its over 108 customers have increased by 66% in the past year, with American authorities having the most requests. дальше »

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Coinbase Says Law Enforcement Requests Rose 66% From Year Ago

The number of requests from the U.S., which accounted for about 43% of the total, increased by 6%. дальше »

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OpenSea reconsiders NFT royalties in response to creators’ criticism

OpenSea postpones its royalty policy enforcement until January 2023 amid the community backlash. OpenSea has announced that it will move the royalties policy enforcement date to January 2, 2023. The platform will now impose creator’s royalties for new projects released… дальше »

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Binance trains police in Thailand on Web3 and investigation techniques

Binance recently did a Web3 and blockchain workshop for Thai law enforcement. дальше »

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Financial Stability Board aims to address crypto-related risks following FTX’s collapse

Though the international board can make recommendations to global policymakers, it largely acts as an advisory body with no enforcement authority. дальше »

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“Regulation By Enforcement” By The SEC Caused BlockFi’s Collapse, Asserts Ripple’s General Counsel

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Ripple general counsel calls BlockFi bankruptcy another success for SEC’s ‘regulation by enforcement’ approach

Ripple general counsel Stuart Alderoty described BlockFi’s bankruptcy as another success for the United States SEC and its regulation-by-enforcement approach. The post Ripple general counsel calls BlockFi bankruptcy another success for SEC’s ‘regulation by enforcement’ approach appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

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UK Lawmakers Support Easy Seizure of Crypto Linked to Terrorist Activity

Lawmakers had already accepted amendments to a new bill to make it easier for law enforcement to target crypto and related property linked to crime. дальше »

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UAE Unveils First Blockchain-Based Commercial Court Amid Growing Crypto Adoption

The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) courts – independent courts overseeing civil and commercial disputes in the UAE’s financial hub – are adopting blockchain. The first-of-a-kind step will see the deployment of the technology in ‘ the global enforcement of commercial judgements. дальше »

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Former SEC Official Doubts FTX Crash Will Prompt Congress to Act on Crypto Regulations

Lisa Braganca, former SEC enforcement branch chief, discusses why regulation for crypto is likely to come from the SEC or CFTC rather than Congress and why SBF’s lawyers are “apoplectic.” дальше »

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27,000 requests last year: Collaboration key for Binance’s Investigations team

Binance’s Investigations and Intelligence team plays a role in helping global law enforcement agencies identify and combat crypto-related crime. дальше »

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Turkish Law Enforcement Investigating FTX's Local Arm Following Wipeout

Turkey's Financial Crimes Investigation Agency said it is looking into people, institutions, banks and crypto service providers with ties to FTX.com after its swift collapse last week. дальше »

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Paxos Ordered by US Officials to Freeze $19M in Crypto Tied to FTX

U.S. federal law enforcement asked the crypto issuer to freeze assets associated with four ethereum addresses as investigations into FTX collapse intensifies. дальше »

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FTX CEO John Ray Confirms Late-Night Hack, Says Company Is Working With Law Enforcement

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX’s new CEO, John Ray, took to Twitter Saturday to confirm that the exchange and its U.S. subsidiary, FTX US, were hacked last night in an attack that drained hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto out of the exchanges’ wallets. дальше »

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Report: Tether freezes $46M of FTX’s USDT, setting new precedent

Tether has thus far only frozen USDT funds held in private wallets when requested by law enforcement.

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Tether Freezes $46M of USDT Held by FTX Following Law-Enforcement Request

Stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen $46 million of USDT on the Tron blockchain following a request from law enforcement. дальше »

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Nifty gateway to release open source royalty enforcement tool

Nifty Gateway is sharing a proposal with an open-source code to enable NFT creators to prevent sales on marketplaces that do not enforce royalties. A community council will also oversee an on-chain blocklist of such marketplaces. Nifty gateway to bar… дальше »

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OpenSea Launches First Royalty Enforcement Tool Amid NFT Marketplace Drama

The on-chain tool will blacklist collections from being resold on marketplaces that don’t enforce royalties and will only apply to new collections listed on the platform. дальше »

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OpenSea launches on-chain tool for enforcement of NFT royalties

OpenSea, the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that continues to take the initiative to have creators earn royalties on secondary sales as competitors take a different outlook, has announced a new tool the platform says will help creators take charge of their royalty earnings. дальше »

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OpenSea to Introduce Enforcement Tool, NFT Creators will Receive Higher Royalties

OpenSea marketplace broke the silence with a tweet on its approach to NFT royalties as the $13.3 billion startup finally made its move on Saturday night. дальше »

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OpenSea launches on-chain tool to enforce NFT royalties

The royalty enforcement tool only applies to new NFT collections at this stage, with a decision to be made on existing collections at a later date. дальше »

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CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Do Kwon wants conference with law enforcement; pressure on miners to rise after excepted upcoming difficulty spike

The biggest news in the cryptoverse for November 4 includes Bitcoin’s outperformance of Nasdaq after the Fed raised interest rates, Do Kwon’s invitation to all law enforcement in the world to join an online conference, and DOGE’s 9% fall amid Twitter’s class-action lawsuit. дальше »

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SEC chair highlights crypto enforcement cases to legal experts

Gary Gensler used examples of SEC enforcement against BlockFi and a former Coinbase employee in justifying the agency’s approach to violations of U.S. securities laws. дальше »

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UK police council reports there are officers in every unit trained for crypto enforcement

The NPCC's Andy Gould said that the U.K. police had the capability to address illicit uses of crypto, but still faced challenges including incentives to join the private sector. дальше »

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CFTC Chair Behnam Says ‘Number One Accomplishment’ Is Track Record of Enforcement Actions

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam is eager for his agency to shed its reputation as the friendlier regulator for the crypto industry. дальше »

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Chinese Intelligence Officers Used Bitcoin in Scheme to Undermine Investigation, US Officials Allege

The two officers tried bribing a U.S. law enforcement official with $61,000 in bitcoin to help support what appears to be Huawei. дальше »

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Austrian Police Chief Says Investigations By Indian Agencies Reduced Crypto Scams

Investigations by Indian law enforcement agencies helped reduce cryptocurrency scams in Austria and other European countries. Austria’s Federal Police and Director of Criminal Intelligence Service, General Mag Andreas Holzer, told this and complimented the representatives of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the sidelines of the Interpol general assembly held during October 18-21 in […] дальше »

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CFTC: 20% of enforcement actions in FY 2022 crypto-related

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released its enforcement actions report for the Fiscal Year 2022, detailing some of the top actions brought against crypto firms over the past year. дальше »

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Interpol Starts Its Own Police Metaverse

The Interpol has entered the Metaverse, the purpose of which will be to offer immersive training courses to law enforcement across the globe. дальше »

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U.S. Agency, CFTC, Aims to “Aggressively Monitor” Cryptocurrencies

The U.S. CFTC, was behind 18 different enforcement actions pursuing digital assets in the 2022 fiscal year because it doesn't want to seem to be being lax on cryptocurrency. дальше »

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Interpol Launches Services In The Metaverse To Curb Online Crimes

Interpol has launched its metaverse designed for law enforcement worldwide to prevent the surging threat of crimes in the crypto-verse. The global police organization held the launch at a surprise session of the 90th INTERPOL General assembly in New Delhi on Thursday. дальше »

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Interpol Announces First Metaverse for Law Enforcement Agencies

Interpol seeks to use the Metaverse to expand its policing scope in fighting crime. дальше »

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US regulator touts ‘aggressively’ policing crypto in new report

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission says 20% of its enforcement actions were aimed at the digital assets market in the 2022 fiscal year. дальше »

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Over a Fifth of Cases in CFTC’s 2022 Crackdown Were Crypto-Related

The federal regulator’s annual enforcement results revealed that over 20% of the CFTC’s enforcement actions in 2022 involved crypto. дальше »

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Mark Steward Announces Plans to Step Down From FCA Next Year

In a press release on 18th October, The FCA announced the impending resignation of Mark Steward, the executive director of Enforcement and Market Oversight. According to the release, Mark will step down next year after working with FCA for seven… дальше »

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Do Kwon, Terra (LUNA) CEO, Breaks Silence and Claims He Is Not Trying to Hide

Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, says he is not hiding from South Korean law enforcement. The nation’s prosecutor’s office said it had obtained a global arrest order for the cryptocurrency CEO. The Fall of Terra and Do Kwon’s… дальше »

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Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run

Terra's controversial co-founder Do Kwon has denied claims that he is on the run from law enforcement, despite Interpol issuing a Red Notice for his arrest. дальше »

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FCA's Crypto AML Compliance Chief Steps Down

Mark Steward, who led the enforcement of anti-money laundering measures for crypto in the U.K., is stepping down after seven years with the Financial Conduct Authority. дальше »

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Texas investigates FTX for securities violations after objecting to Voyager auction

The Texas State Securities Board enforcement director downloaded an FTX Trading app — not an FTX US app — in Texas using his own information and was able to earn interest on it. дальше »

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Dubai’s Ajman Police Becomes First Police Agency to Offer Metaverse Services

The Ajman Police is now the first law enforcement agency to provide virtual services to its customers in the Metaverse. дальше »

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Polygon's preference for this state-of-being may disappoint MATIC investors

Polygon [MATIC] in its latest string of collaborations, announced that the Polygon team will be working with Indian law enforcement. The blockchain would be working to create an online complaint (FIR)The post Polygon's preference for this state-of-being may disappoint MATIC investors appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »

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OFAC And FinCEN Charged Bittrex Exchange For Over $53 Million

Treasury’s Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have set charges against the Bittrex crypto exchange for violating anti-money laundering rules and the other U. дальше »

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Why the SEC Is After Yuga Labs and What It Means for NFTs

In what will be seen as a major escalation in its crypto enforcement agenda, the Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be investigating Yuga Labs, the creators and distributors... дальше »

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Crypto Mixers Haven't 'Slowed' DOJ Investigations, Director Says

U.S. Department of Justice Crypto Enforcement Team Director Eun Young Choi said mixers cause a "multiplier effect" but aren't "necessarily" slowing investigations down. дальше »

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US Treasury’s OFAC and FinCEN announce $29M in enforcement actions again Bittrex

Bittrex agreed to pay more than $29 million in a settlement with FinCEN, but the regulator said it will credit a $24-million payment “to settle its potential liability with OFAC.” дальше »

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Brazil police, US authorities bust transnational crypto fraud ring led by ‘Bitcoin Sheikh’

Brazil’s Federal Police and the United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the help of multiple other enforcement agencies have busted a global crypto fraud ring, according to a press release issued by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 6. дальше »

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Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Maintains He’s Not Hiding Following Interpol Red Notice

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CFTC’s Regulation by Enforcement Needs to Change, Commissioner Says

Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover,” to discuss the implications of enforcement by regulation and why it could be setting a “dangerous” precedent. дальше »

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SEC staff reportedly unhappy with Gensler over Kim Kardashian ‘publicity stunt’

The United States SEC’s enforcement staff are reportedly unhappy with Chairman Gary Gensler over his “publicity stunt” concerning the recent settlement fine paid by Kim Kardashian, Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino reported on October 5. дальше »

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US CFTC as Crypto’s Regulatory Savior? Crypto Firms Might Not Like What They Get

Just because Rostin Behnam is the rare government official who can casually drop a comment that suggests a future explosion in bitcoin price, doesn’t mean he’s a crypto bro. The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is widely seen in crypto circles as a relatively friendly face in government, but his recent record on enforcement could suggest otherwise. дальше »

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