Rpay was developed by the team behind the stablecoin protocol Reserve and currently has 600,000 registered in Latin America and 300,000 on a waiting list, Jiménez said. The platform has posted $5.7 billion in cumulative volume since going live in 2020, and it recently adopted the decentralized Electronic Dollar (eUSD) stablecoin, which tracks the US dollar. Source
OFAC claims that at least $2 million worth of cryptocurrencies was moved through wallets to fund North Korea’s weapon of mass destruction (WMD) programs. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) says it has sanctioned several crypto wallets that have links to North Korea. According to a Tuesday statement, the wallets were being hosted on the crypto exchange Binance. Although the crypto exchange may not have directly controlled the wallets since any user could have signed up for them. OFAC Identifies Addresses of Wallets US officials have traced the…
The Department of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and South Korea have joined forces to impose sanctions on three individuals who were accused of providing material support to the North Korean-based Lazarus hacking group. The accused individuals allegedly helped convert stolen crypto assets to fiat currency, which was then used to fund North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs. According to OFAC’s report, the Lazarus Group is involved in illicit financial and cyber activities that support North Korea’s WMD and ballistic missile programs. The group…
The United States Treasury Department has identified over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency traders who assisted North Korea’s Lazarus Group in converting stolen crypto into fiat currency. Crypto traders in China and Hong Kong have been sanctioned by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition, a China-based banker was sanctioned for coordinating some of the illicit cashflow. Wu Huihui was sanctioned by OFAC for “providing material support to the Lazarus Group,” the North Korean hacker group known for some of the biggest exploits in crypto. According to a statement released…
Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied On April 14, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), under the Treasury Department, sanctioned five individuals and two companies based in China for supplying cartels in Mexico with precursor ingredients used to manufacture opioids. OFAC sanctions Of the five people sanctioned, a 32-year-old WANG, Hongfei, a Chinese national based in Hebei, had his bitcoin (BTC) address blacklisted by United States authorities. Hongfei’s details were displayed, including his association with Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology. Yao Huatao,…
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The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, has announced a settlement with crypto exchange Kraken for “apparent violations of sanctions against Iran.” In a Nov. 28 announcement, OFAC said Kraken had agreed to pay more than $362,000 as part of a deal “to settle its potential civil liability” related to violating the United States’ sanctions against Iran. The U.S.-based crypto exchange will also be investing $100,000 into sanctions compliance controls as part of the agreement with Treasury. “Due to Kraken’s failure to timely implement appropriate…
Considering that protocol-level censorship is deterrent to the crypto ecosystem’s goal of highly open and accessible finance, the community has been keeping track of Ethereum’s growing compliance with standards laid down by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Over the last 24 hours, the Ethereum network was found to enforce OFAC compliance on over 73% of its blocks. Ethereum sporting 73% OFAC-compliant blocks. Source: mevwatch.info In Oct. 2022, Cointelegraph reported on the rising censorship concerns after 51% of Ethereum blocks were found compliant with OFAC standards. However, data from…
One month after the Merge, 51% of Ethereum blocks were compliant with OFAC standards, according to blockchain development Labrys’ data, as MEV-Boost relays take over market share. On Twitter, users highlighted how the figures represent a milestone towards censorship, as more blocks are under surveillance: We reached another sad milestone in censorship: 51%This means if the censoring validators would now stop attesting to non-censoring blocks they would eventually form the canonical, 100% censoring chain. pic.twitter.com/JrYUjowLpt — Martin Köppelmann (@koeppelmann) October 14, 2022 OFAC stands for the Office of Foreign Assets Control,…
Bittrex agreed to pay more than $29 million in a settlement with FinCEN, but the regulator said it will credit a $24-million payment “to settle its potential liability with OFAC.” The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network took enforcement actions against crypto exchange Bittex for allegedly violating sanctions programs as well as reporting requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act, or BSA. In an Oct. 11 announcement, the U.S. Treasury said Bittrex had agreed to a more than $24-million settlement with…