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The US Department of Justice is examining whether Binance breached its 2023 criminal settlement after prosecutors sought forfeiture of $61 million allegedly tied to laundered Iranian oil proceeds, as the exchange separately tightens compliance rules for Brazilian users.
The House Oversight Committee has asked Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt operator Aristotle Exchange to hand over user-verification and trading-surveillance records, following a leveraged short position that turned a profit of more than $150 million around Donald Trump's tariff announcement.
THORChain says its architecture cannot selectively freeze transactions, rejecting Bitget's request to stop attackers from moving stolen assets through the network.
Bitget has revised its estimate of funds stolen in a wallet breach to $387.5 million after adding zcash and tron to the list of compromised assets, and has launched a bounty programme offering 5% of recovered or frozen funds.
On-chain analysts have traced a portion of the funds stolen from Bitget to wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus-affiliated TraderTraitor group, yet no government or agency has issued formal attribution, a striking contrast to the swift response after last year's Bybit hack.
Gracy Chen said attackers compromised a critical wallet server and manipulated transaction records to push through unauthorised transfers, as Bitget brings in Mandiant and SlowMist to investigate.
A draft anti-money-laundering bill approved by Madrid would give police, tax authorities and intelligence services direct access to a registry of crypto accounts held at exchanges, without requiring individual data requests.