Iran has spent more than a month under Washington’s new “Economic Fury” sanctions drive, and the country has still not given the Trump administration what it wants. The campaign began on April 16 with a promise to use the “full range of available tools and authorities” against Tehran’s economy. That sounds big, but the early...

Nobitex still processes around $9M in monthly volumes, with a 50% drawdown since the war in Iran broke out in March. The exchange is still a key stablecoin hub, potentially used to evade sanctions and move funds out of Iran.

Delivery Hero got a takeover offer from Uber on Saturday. The bid values the German food delivery company at €33 per share, or about $38.29. The offer is lower than what shareholders want. It’s about 1.76% below where Delivery Hero’s stock closed Friday. Uber just became Delivery Hero’s biggest shareholder. The ride-hailing company bumped up...

Bank-affiliated stablecoin issuers will now be expected to comply with the same anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements that govern traditional financial institutions. The change is due to a proposed rule that was recently approved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC is also separately preparing to modernize anti-money laundering (AML) rules for stablecoins. ...

According to the Department of State, a reward of up to $10 million will be offered for information leading to the seizure and recovery of proceeds obtained through money laundering associated with fraud emanating from the Tai Chang complexes in Burma.  According to the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program, the reward is meant to bring...

Grayscale has declared a bullish future for Sui and its Staking ETF (ticker: GSUI), which gives both institutional and retail investors a more regulated way to gain exposure to the Sui network.  Grayscale’s backing comes just two days after the Sui blockchain removed gas fees for stablecoin transfers. Sui is one of the core assets,...

Nvidia’s top executive called for better oversight from the company’s business partners on Saturday after Taiwan authorities arrested three people accused of trying to send banned computer chips to China through fake paperwork. Jensen Huang, who leads the world’s most valuable company, spoke to reporters in Taipei just hours after arriving from the United States....

The Thai police force has successfully uncovered an AI-enabled romance scam being run by six men from Nigeria using a luxury riverside condominium in Nonthaburi. This operation took place on Friday, May 22, 2026, highlighting the growing trend of using artificial intelligence to facilitate fraudulent activities. Police forces under the Metropolitan Police Bureau seized three...

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Within days of each other, courts in China, the UK and Morocco handed down significant sentences to criminals involved in physical crypto crime.  While efforts are ongoing to make the cryptocurrency industry more secure online, law enforcement officials globally are also cracking down on physical crypto crime known as wrench attacks. Does China punish crypto...

A US-sanctioned Iranian businessman, known to be adept at evading international sanctions, has reportedly been linked to operations using crypto to help Iran finance its armed forces and circumvent sanctions. Babak Zanjani is believed to be involved in processing finances for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So far, they have carried out about $850...

The Uniswap DAO has pushed out a new proposal to expand its UNIfication program by activating protocol fee collection and UNI token burning to the BNB, Polygon and Celo networks.  The proposal to expand on the three networks will be looking at replicating the rally that the initial rollout sparked when it launched on the...

Fenwick & West, a prominent Silicon Valley law firm, has entered into a $54 million preliminary settlement agreement to address customer lawsuits related to the defunct crypto exchange, FTX. Filed in court on Friday in Miami, Florida, the settlement has yet to receive judicial sanction. Settlement will address claims that FTX clients raised against the...

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A French-Moroccan man convicted of organizing some of the recent daring kidnappings of crypto figures in France has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The news comes amid a growing debate in French society over the massive number of data leaks in the country that are compromising personal security. Moroccan court sends crypto kidnapper...

Crypto bulls saw more than half a billion dollars wiped out in liquidations after the crypto market printed red indexes all around. The cumulative digital assets market cap dipped by more than 2% over the last 24 hours to hover around $2.53 trillion. Bitcoin saw $55 billion leave its market cap amid the fresh sell-off....

Mark Cuban said the story around his Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) sale was wrong, and he did not dump the asset because of the Iran war. As reported previously on Cryptopolitan, Mark offloaded 80 percent of his Bitcoin when its price dipped along with gold hitting $5,000, with which he claimed that this digital asset was...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) has become the loudest name in the chip trade this week, surging by 12% on Friday to make it a 40.3% rally for the week, and is now up about 75% over the past month, breaking all-time highs after all-time highs. Meanwhile, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) hit its first intraday record...

Gold now makes up basically the entirety tokenized commodity market, according to data from a16z Crypto, whose latest report put tokenized commodities at about $5.1 billion, while tokenized gold alone sat near $5 billion. Silver and every other commodity product had only $57.6 million combined, which leaves gold with about 98% of the market. Oil,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed plans to introduce an exemption that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized equities, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday.

Kevin Warsh took the oath as Federal Reserve chair at the White House on Friday morning, giving President Donald Trump a new Fed chief at a rough time for the U.S. economy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas swore him in. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, National Economic Council Director...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has come under pressure again following high-profile departures over the past few days, with researchers Carl Beek and Julian Ma announcing their exits on Monday.

Asset manager Grayscale says that the small group of blockchains already dominating decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized assets, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Canton Network, are best positioned to absorb the first wave of institutional capital once the United States passes the CLARITY Act, its long-promised crypto rulebook. The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking...

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the NYSE, has partnered with OKX to roll out perpetual futures contracts for its Brent Crude and WTI Crude energy benchmarks.

An anonymous X user named Matthew posted a long thread today claiming he found the real identity of Zach and accusing the crypto investigator of taking money from major industry players that almost never end up in his threads. Matthew said the account was made this month and that this was his first post after...

YZi Labs (the venture company formerly known as Binance Labs) has officially opened the application process for the latest season of its EASY Residency cohort, with applications open to founders until June 21st, 2026. The latest edition (Season 4) will also be the first time the program brings a founder cohort physically to the Gelephu...

China has denied claims that it is discouraging local tech companies from taking foreign investment, despite continued withdrawals by international investors from major sectors. Li Chao, a National Development and Reform Commission official, stated on May 22 that the government has never instructed Chinese IT companies to steer clear of foreign funding. He continued by...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) slapped a record-breaking penalty of 1.85 billion yuan (approx worth $271 million) on Futu Holdings. This turns out to be one of the authority’s most aggressive enforcement actions to punish non-compliance.  Futu said the matter remains under review and that it will engage with regulators before any final decision....

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