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Summary: The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixer for the first time Blender.io has been added to the OFAC’s SDN list for assisting in illicit transactions that pose a threat to the United States and for aiding the North Korean hacker group, Lazarus, in laundering stolen funds The US Treasury Department
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The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it was sanctioning cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io for its role in laundering proceeds from the hacking of Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge. North Korean state-sponsored hackers Lazarus Group have been identified as the perpetrators of the attack. Treasury Under
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The United States Treasury Department has added three Ethereum wallet addresses to sanctions allegedly linked to the hacker group responsible for the theft of more than $600 million in crypto from nonfungible token game Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechain.In a Friday update, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or
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The operators of the Ronin exploit wallet, said by the FBI and OFAC to be North Korea's Lazarus hacking group, have been laundering funds by moving them from a sanctioned address to an intermediary address before sending the funds to Tornado Cash, a mixer designed to obfuscate the source and
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The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions. In a Wednesday announcement, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, said it was taking action against BitRiver AG as well as 10 of its
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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has released a report detailing how its $1.6 billion treasury consists mostly of Ether (ETH), but with a surprising 18.8% in non-crypto assets.In total, the EF non-profit organization which manages the funds for Ethereum developments holds about 0.3% of the current total ETH supply, amounting to
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Treasury Secretary Yellen says the regulatory frameworks for crypto assets in the U.S. should “support responsible innovation while managing risks.” She emphasized, “Regulation should be based on risks and activities, not specific technologies.” Treasury Secretary Yellen on Crypto Regulation U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen talked about crypto regulation Thursday at American University’s
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Any potential CBDC design would have to address its impact on the financial system, ability to address financial crime and national security questions, privacy implications, ability to address macro policy and how it might interact with existing fiat currencies, stablecoins or other CBDCs, Yellen said. Source
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United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listed stablecoins as one of the major policy concerns in the digital asset space for regulators, currently subject to “inconsistent and fragmented oversight.”Speaking to attendees at American University in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Yellen said the Treasury Department was working with Congress to advance
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