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U.S. Has Added Nearly 2,000 Sanctions on Iran Since 2018
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...
Sun, May 24
Almost All of Trump's Illegal Stock Market Trades Were Made After He Struck Iran
President Donald Trump is facing a new stock-trading mess after his latest financial filing showed 3,711 trades, with nearly all of them tied to shares in American companies. Many of the companies in the report can be affected by federal decisions, including policy on defense, taxes, energy, tech, trade, and regulation. Over 2,000 trades landed...
Sun, May 24
Telegram's Durov Piles on as Meta, Discord Fight Texas Lawsuits
WhatsApp and its parent company Meta (NASDAQ: META) have received lawsuits from the state of Texas regarding their privacy encryption. The company has been accused of violating the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov did not miss the opportunity to pile on, writing the latest chapter in the long history of the...
Sun, May 24
Arthur Hayes warns Bitcoin holders not to count on Michael Saylor to save them
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said Bitcoin holders should not confuse Michael Saylor’s buying machine with a safety net for their own portfolios. Arthur made the point during a May 13 interview with Scott Melker (aka Wolf of All Streets), where he said Michael’s role is tied to Strategy (MSTR), not to ordinary investors holding Bitcoin...
Sat, May 23
September final shutdown date announced for Toncoin and Token Bridge
The Open Network (TON) has confirmed that the Toncoin and Token Bridge at bridge-v3.ton.org will cease all operations permanently on September 1, 2026, drawing the curtain on an infrastructure that was behind the blockchain’s earliest days of cross-chain connectivity. It was stated in the announcement, which was published on the TON Status Telegram channel, that...
Sat, May 23
Whales are still moving funds through Nobitex
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.
Sat, May 23
FDIC proposes anti-money laundering rules for bank-affiliated stablecoin issuers
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. ...
Sat, May 23
US offers $10M bounty to dismantle Burma’s Tai Chang crypto scam empire
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...
Sat, May 23
Grayscale backs Sui as network pushes for expansion with free stablecoin transfers
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,...
Sat, May 23
Nvidia’s Huang slams partners over China chip smuggling but won’t give up on Beijing
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....
Sat, May 23
Thai police arrest 6 Nigerians running AI scams targeting older women
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...
Sat, May 23
Courts in China, UK and Morocco hand prison sentences to crypto thieves in single week
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...
Sat, May 23
US-sanctioned Iranian tycoon linked to $850M sanctions evasion operation on Binance
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...
Sat, May 23
Uniswap governance moves to extend UNI token burns to BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo
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...
Sat, May 23
Fenwick & West agrees to pay $54M to escape FTX customer lawsuits over collapse
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...
Sat, May 23
French-Moroccan man sentenced to 25 years in prison for France crypto kidnaps
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...
Sat, May 23
Overleveraged Bitcoin bulls get crushed in $576M wipeout
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
Sat, May 23
Gold makes up 99.8% of the entire tokenized commodity market
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, whic
Sat, May 23
Mark Cuban says Bitcoin betrayed its own ethos long before Iran war and current price is a ‘prop up’ by Saylor
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 di
Sat, May 23
How is Qualcomm the best-performing chip stock right now, with over 40% gain this week?
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 in
Sat, May 23
