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Q1 2026 in US crypto enforcement: 22 actions, as SafeMoon’s chief is sentenced
The quietest quarter in the ledger brought a 100-month sentence in the SafeMoon case, a hacking charge five years on, and $580 million in scam seizures.
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Q2 2026 in US crypto enforcement: a laundering service shut and OneCoin victims repaid
The second quarter of 2026 brought a takedown of AudiA6, a compensation process for OneCoin’s victims, and a 23-year sentence in the Meta-1 Coin case.
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Q3 2026 in US crypto enforcement: Goliath’s $425 million and a $61 million Iran forfeiture
Actions rose to 39 in the third quarter of 2026, with sanctions-evasion cases, a scam-services marketplace on Telegram and a theft ringleader’s plea.
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Q1 2025 in US crypto enforcement: BitMEX fined $100 million as Garantex is shut down
The first quarter of 2025 matched the start of 2024 at 49 actions, with an exchange fined, a DeFi hacker charged and a 20-year sentence for a crypto theft.
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Q2 2025 in US crypto enforcement: a record scam seizure and a 270-arrest darknet sweep
Seizures rose and prison terms lengthened in the second quarter of 2025, whose 10 sentences had a median of 144 months, the highest of any full quarter.
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Q3 2025 in US crypto enforcement: the SEC brings 2 actions, and seizures lead
Seizures were the most common step in the third quarter of 2025, while Cred’s executives were sentenced and a kidnapping for crypto reached federal court.
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Q4 2025 in US crypto enforcement: 28 actions, the fewest of 2024 and 2025
Scam cases led the last quarter of 2025, as more members of a $263 million theft ring pleaded guilty and a crypto ATM founder was charged.
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Q3 2024 in US crypto enforcement: the SEC’s busiest quarter, with 20 of 44 actions
The SEC brought nearly half the quarter’s actions, settling with Silvergate and Abra, while a $230 million bitcoin theft led to arrests.
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Q4 2024 in US crypto enforcement: two darknet mixers sentenced, Celsius founder pleads
Sentences dominated the last quarter of 2024, with a median of 120 months, as Bitcoin Fog and Helix reached their end in court.
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Q1 2024 in US crypto enforcement: 49 actions, from OneCoin’s lawyer to Bitcoin Fog
The first quarter of 2024 brought a 10-year sentence in the OneCoin case, a jury verdict against a darknet mixer and the DEA’s largest crypto seizure.
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Q2 2024 in US crypto enforcement: Cred, HashFlare and Samourai Wallet charged
The Justice Department brought 34 of the quarter’s 43 actions, charging a bankrupt lender’s executives, two Estonian suspects and a mixer’s founders.
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What happened after Coinbase’s 2020 XRP frenzy: an SEC lawsuit, dropped in 2025
In late 2020 this site covered Coinbase’s XRP rush and its pause on margin trading. Since then the SEC sued the exchange, then dropped the case.
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What happened after Voyager: a $750,000 order against its former chief executive
In June 2023 this site reported Voyager Digital winding down after its deals with FTX and Binance.US fell through. The record since then.
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What happened after the North Korea DeFi warning: Bybit, Tornado Cash, 71 addresses
In May 2023 this site reported a US Treasury warning that North Korean actors were laundering money through DeFi. The record since then.
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What happened after Bitcoin Jesus’s debt fight: tax charges, then a $50 million deal
In February 2023 this site covered an early bitcoin investor’s dispute with a bankrupt broker. A year later he was indicted in the US.
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What happened after FTX: a 25-year sentence and $12.7 billion for victims
In May 2023 this site reported a new bribery charge against FTX’s founder. Here is how the cases ended.
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What happened after Terra: $4.5 billion to the SEC and 15 years for Do Kwon
In June 2023 this site reported charges in South Korea against a Terraform co-founder. In the US, the other co-founder’s cases have since ended.
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What happened after the SEC sued Ripple: a $125 million penalty that stood
In January 2021 this site covered the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple. It ended in 2025, after the SEC tried and failed to cut the penalty.
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Exchanges’ share of crypto hack losses has risen every year since 2020, from 7.8% to 77.8%
DeFi protocols have more incidents, but since 2025 most of the money lost to hacks has come out of centralised exchanges.
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EU crypto licences under MiCA: 380 firms authorised in 23 months, 111 in Germany
The register grew from 4 firms in December 2024, with rushes before national deadlines and 75 authorisations in June 2026 alone.