🟢 #Mexican #Cartels #Using BTC, ETH, #USDT, #Other #Tokens to Buy #Fentanyl #Ingredients: U.S.
Criminal organizations in Mexico have been using several popular digital assets to buy the materials needed to make the drug fentanyl, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which cited the use of bitcoin and other tokens in a Thursday advisory.

🟢 #Traditional #Money #Launderers #Appear to Be #Using #Crypto, #Chainalysis Says
The crypto tracing company's latest report shines a light on potential money laundering.

🟢 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged brothers Jonathan and Tanner Adam of attempting to defraud more than 80 investors with a $60 million Ponzi scheme involving a crypto asset trading platform, it announced on Monday.
U.S. SEC #Charges Two #Brothers in $60M #Ponzi Scam #Using a #Crypto #Platform - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Indian cryptocurrency exchange Mudrex won a court order telling the country's Ministry of Communication to take down as many as 38 websites that were exploiting the company's name to carry out scams.
#Indian #Court #Orders Scam #Websites #Using #Crypto #Exchange #Mudrex's Name to Be #Taken Down - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Banks that transact on permissionless blockchains face multiple risks, including money laundering and terrorism financing, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said.
#Banks #Using #Permissionless #Blockchains for #Transactions Face #Multiple #Risks: BIS - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 The Indian crypto exchange was hacked for over $230 million in July, and a restructuring process is underway in Singapore.
#WazirX #Hacker #Starts to Move #Stolen #Ether #Using #Tornado Cash - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Russian nationals Sergey Ivanov and Timur Shakhmametov have been charged for their involvement in operating money laundering services that catered to cybercriminals using cryptocurrencies, U.S. authorities announced on Thursday.
#Global #Effort #Disrupts #Russia #Linked #Network #Using #Crypto to #Evade #Sanctions, U.S. #Charges Two #Russians - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 A total of 27 people between the ages of 21 and 34 were taken into custody suspected of conspiracy to defraud following a raid on a Hong Kong office.
Hong Kong #Police Bust #Group #Running $46M #Crypto #Investment Scam #Using #Deepfakes - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Automating and standardizing corporate actions data could help significantly reduce operational inefficiencies that currently cost businesses millions of dollars every year due to errors and manual data processing, the report said.
#Chainlink #Partners With #Major #Financial #Players to #Improve #Corporate #Actions Data #Reporting #Using AI and #Blockchain - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Detroiters will soon be able to pay their taxes and other city fees with crypto through PayPal, according to a Thursday announcement from Detroit’s Office of the Treasury.
#Detroiters Will Be Able to Pay #Their #Taxes in #Crypto Next Year #Using #PayPal - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Chancellor Rachel Reeves will mention the DLT-based digital gilt instrument in her first annual speech laying out her long-term vision.
UK #Government #Plans #Pilot for a #Digital Gilt #Instrument #Using #Distributed #Ledger #Technology - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 The attack starts with seemingly legitimate GitHub projects — like making Telegram bots for managing bitcoin wallets or tools for computer games.
#Hackers Are #Using Fake #GitHub Code to #Steal Your #Bitcoin: #Kaspersky - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Chipper Cash, which claims to have five million customers across nine African countries, said the move will allow consumers to speedily receive funds from around the world, around the clock.
#Ripple #Partners With #Chipper Cash to #Boost #Payments in #Africa #Using XRP - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Rootstock founder Sergio Lerner sees Bitcoin layers-2s as fundamental to BTC fulfilling its purpose of being "money for the people"
#Rootstock #Prepares to #Release SDKs for #Bitcoin #Layer 2s #Using #BitVMX - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2
#Bitcoin #Rollup #Citrea #Deploys #Bridge to #Tackle #Collateral #Bottleneck of #Using BTC in DeFi - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto

🟢 The strategy, offering an annualized yield exceeding 24%, will be soon rolled out to institutions and retail users.
#BounceBit #Pilots #Bitcoin #Trading #Strategy #Using #BlackRock's #BUIDL as #Collateral - #bitcoin #btc #eth #crypto