News, Trends and Ideas Shaping the Crypto Revolution
Offshore crypto casinos are systematically circumventing the United Kingdom's GamStop self-exclusion scheme and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations by operating no-KYC platforms from outside British jurisdiction while actively targeting UK players through aggressive digital marketing. Research by iGaming intelligence platform Betconix found that no crypto-only casino has been approved
Kazakh financial authorities have terminated operations at 130 unlicensed crypto platforms and confiscated $16.7 million in digital assets as part of a nationwide enforcement campaign targeting money laundering operations. Kairat Bizhanov, Deputy Chairman of the country's Financial Monitoring Agency, disclosed the results at a government briefing, noting
Venezuela turned to cryptocurrencies in 2025 after the government abandoned its defence of the bolívar in October, with the national currency losing more than 70% of its value and inflation reaching 229% by May 2025 according to the Venezuelan Finance Observatory (OVF). The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Adoption Index ranked Venezuela
INX Digital Company, a publicly traded crypto exchange in Canada, is set to finalise its merger with fintech firm Republic on 8 October 2025 in a deal worth up to $60 million that will trigger direct cash payouts to INX token holders — and U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth
Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) announced on 15 September 2025 the seizure of 187 cryptocurrency wallets it claims belong to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC is sanctioned and designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union,
A government document prepared in September 2025 and seen by Reuters reveals that India does not intend to create a full legislative framework for regulating cryptocurrencies, opting instead to maintain its current partial oversight approach. The document states that regulating crypto would grant the sector legitimacy and could cause it
South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups approved on 11 September 2025 a partial revision to the Enforcement Decree of the Venture Business Act, allowing cryptocurrency businesses to register as venture companies from 16 September 2025. The decision reverses a ban in place since October 2018 that excluded
Shengsheng He, a California resident, was sentenced on 8 September 2025 to 51 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $26.9 million in restitution for laundering nearly $37 million through an international cryptocurrency investment fraud. The case forms part of the U.S. Department of Justice's
San Francisco-based Divine Research has issued around 30,000 unbacked short-term crypto loans since December, using Sam Altman's iris-scanning World ID platform to verify borrowers. The company offers loans under $1,000 in USDC stablecoin, mainly targeting overseas borrowers underserved by traditional finance. According to founder Diego Estevez,
The United Kingdom has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave, warned former Chancellor George Osborne on August 4th, who holds an advisory role at crypto exchange firm Coinbase. While Donald Trump's Genius Act opens the floodgates to stablecoin
A complaint made public by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 11, 2025, reveals that executives of cryptocurrency firm MoonPay became victims of a $250,000 Ethereum scam when donating to what they believed was Trump's inauguration fund in December 2024. While the complaint does
Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin published its 32nd consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves (PoR) report on July 10, 2025, verified by independent auditor Hacken, confirming that the exchange maintains over 100% asset coverage for liabilities. This consistent transparency initiative provides KuCoin with a significant competitive advantage following the November 2022 FTX collapse,
