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Jurisdiction: United States. Regulator: SEC / CFTC / Treasury / Congress. Topic: AML. Latest event: August 13, 2026 — Hawaii Bans Crypto ATMs From October 2026.
Use this page to compare rule changes, licensing signals, enforcement posture, and market-access implications for exchanges, stablecoin issuers, protocols, custodians and institutional teams operating across APAC.
Hawaii will ban the ownership, operation and management of crypto ATMs and digital-asset transaction terminals from October 1. The state-level ban reflects growing consumer-protection and fraud concerns around cash-to-crypto access points.
BitMart's wind-down and U.S.-user withdrawal cutoff have drawn scrutiny over withdrawal access, position closures, KYC, source-of-funds checks and wallet ownership controls. The case highlights exchange exit-planning obligations, customer asset handling and evidence trails for compliance-driven freezes or delayed withdrawals.
Bybit filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau and Lazarus Group over the February 2025 hack, with a preliminary injunction freezing linked assets. The case turns a major exchange breach into a sanctions, evidence-preservation and cross-border recovery precedent.
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned crypto exchanges and related entities including Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether for alleged links to IRGC financing and sanctions evasion. Exchanges and stablecoin intermediaries should refresh screening controls for Iran-linked counterparties, wallets and settlement flows.
U.S. authorities sentenced MyTrade founder Liu Zhou over conspiracy involving market manipulation and wire fraud, with the case focused on bots that generated artificial trading volume for digital assets. The action reinforces exchange surveillance expectations around wash trading, market makers and token liquidity claims.
The CFTC ordered UBS Financial Services Inc. to pay $8 million for failing to diligently supervise configuration and operation of AML transaction monitoring systems for foreign-currency wires. The action reinforces that monitoring-system governance, alert coverage and supervisory evidence are core compliance controls even outside crypto-native firms.
Minnesota became the first US state to ban cryptocurrency kiosks, requiring machines to go offline on August 1 and be removed by year-end. The ban reflects a shift from KYC and limits toward outright restrictions where crypto ATM fraud losses remain high.
The US Treasury sanctioned Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority over an IRGC-backed Strait of Hormuz extortion scheme, noting that digital asset payments were used to help evade sanctions. The action adds maritime insurance and shipping-service crypto payments to sanctions-screening watchlists.
US authorities filed a civil forfeiture action seeking roughly 2.118 million USDT tied to alleged Southeast Asia pig-butchering investment fraud. The case highlights continued law-enforcement focus on USDT flows through social-engineering scams, fake trading venues and cross-border laundering networks.
Drop Site News reported that Consensys unknowingly hired a DPRK-linked developer consultant who used the Tyler Knapp alias and worked on MetaMask-related code. The case turns developer onboarding, vendor screening, repository access and sanctions controls into a front-line wallet compliance issue.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged Zhuoying Chen and Haojie Zhang with conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to online investment scams. The indictment alleges a network of roughly 45 shell companies and 140 bank accounts moved more than USD 43 million to co-conspirators in China, reinforcing shell-company and cross-border payout red flags for crypto-linked scam proceeds.
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned First VPN Service, its administrator Dmytro Rashevskyi, and cryptor seller Yegeniy Silayev for supporting ransomware actors targeting U.S. hospitals, schools, businesses and public-sector entities. The action expands AML screening pressure around anonymization infrastructure, malware-obfuscation services and related crypto payment flows.
Alaska's SB 249 creates a virtual currency kiosk framework with consumer protections, transaction controls and an October 1, 2026 effective date. The law adds another state-level template for crypto ATM licensing, registration and fraud-prevention obligations.
The U.S. DOJ reportedly brought new charges against RG Coins founder Rossen Iossifov, alleging that he transferred or destroyed about $290,000 in forfeited cryptocurrency while serving a sentence. The case reinforces continuing enforcement risk around crypto exchangers, forfeiture orders and laundering controls.
Binance denied reports that it would reduce U.S. law enforcement cooperation or stop courtesy freezes, saying a DOJ memo may have misread ADGM license obligations. The dispute shows how exchange asset-freeze workflows can be complicated by cross-border licensing, MLAT routing and local regulator guidance.
Block agreed to a $45 million multistate settlement resolving allegations that Cash App misled consumers about safety and failed to protect users from scams and fraud. The case raises consumer-protection and anti-fraud control expectations for payment apps and wallet-like financial products.
FBI complaint data cited by Texas officials show nearly 1,200 Texans lost about $56.8 million to crypto kiosk scams last year, prompting lawmakers and law enforcement to call for regulation or bans. The episode highlights cash-to-crypto kiosks as a high-risk AML, fraud and consumer-protection entry point.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran, Russia, North Korea and other sanctioned actors handled about USD100 billion in crypto last year, citing blockchain analytics firms and Western authorities. The scale reinforces pressure on exchanges, stablecoin issuers and bridges to strengthen sanctions screening and illicit-flow monitoring.
The United States, Japan and South Korea advanced trilateral cooperation against DPRK cyber-enabled revenue generation, citing reported thefts from KelpDAO and Drift Protocol and the need to disrupt laundering, IT-worker infiltration and crypto theft networks. The coordination raises sanctions and counterparty-screening pressure on DeFi protocols, exchanges and service providers.
IRS Criminal Investigation published a June 26 forfeiture notice listing USDT, BTC, ETH, XRP and other crypto assets under civil forfeiture authority. The notice highlights continued U.S. use of forfeiture processes for cross-border crypto proceeds and high-risk wallet review.
House Financial Services ranking member Maxine Waters asked the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw a proposed safe harbor for alternative assets in 401(k) plans, including digital assets. The comment keeps crypto retirement-account access under investor-protection and fiduciary-duty scrutiny.
New Hampshire legislation will add consumer-protection controls for crypto ATMs, including a USD2,000 daily transaction cap and a 48-hour cancellation and refund window for scam victims. The state-level rule raises compliance expectations for retail cash-to-crypto entry points.
TRM Labs traced more than $3.84 billion in blockchain-verified flows between CoinEx and sanctioned Iranian entities across more than seven years. The finding raises AML and sanctions-screening pressure on exchanges and counterparties exposed to Iran-linked transaction paths.
The OCC issued Bulletin 2026-28 on proposed AML/CFT and sanctions compliance standards for permitted payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. The rulemaking formalizes customer identification, BSA and sanctions expectations for stablecoin issuance and raises the compliance bar for dollar stablecoin counterparties.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration posted an official forfeiture notice listing multiple Tether assets totaling about 1.66 million USDT, including seizures tied to unidentified parties in El Salvador and Wolfbite S.A.S. in Colombia. The notice reinforces stablecoin seizure and forfeiture as a routine law-enforcement workflow for crypto asset exposure.
The FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC, NCUA and FinCEN proposed a GENIUS Act rule requiring permitted payment stablecoin issuers to be treated as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act and maintain customer identification programs. The proposal moves stablecoin issuance toward bank-style AML/KYC onboarding and reliance controls.
Early Warning Services announced Zelle's first international expansion to India and unveiled ZelleUSD, a proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin intended to support future international payment capabilities. A bank-owned P2P network moving into stablecoin remittances raises reserve, issuer, AML and cross-border licensing questions for bank-led payment rails.
Delaware's House Economic Committee advanced House Bill 441 to ban installation, ownership or operation of cryptocurrency kiosks and require removal of existing machines within 90 days after effectiveness. The bill shows U.S. state policy moving from transaction limits toward outright prohibition for fraud-heavy cash-to-crypto channels.
The U.S. Justice Department said Geoffrey K. Auyeung was sentenced to five years in prison after nearly $100 million in fraud proceeds moved through bank accounts linked to cryptocurrency exchanges. The case reinforces crypto exchange account monitoring obligations around investment-fraud proceeds and cross-border laundering networks.
Hyperliquid Policy Center and Paradigm urged the U.S. Treasury to revise proposed FinCEN and OFAC rules implementing the GENIUS Act. Their position would concentrate stablecoin issuer compliance duties around primary issuance while clarifying sanctions obligations for secondary and decentralized markets.
Kalshi will collect employment information from customers trading in markets scored as high risk for insider trading or market manipulation. The move tightens market-integrity controls for regulated prediction markets as CFTC and DOJ scrutiny of event-contract trading intensifies.
HTX said World Liberty Financial unilaterally froze HTX-linked on-chain addresses after sanctions-compliance reviews, forcing HTX to suspend WLFI and USD1-related markets. The case turns issuer blacklist authority into a direct exchange listing and custody risk for sanction-sensitive tokens and stablecoins.
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt defended the CLARITY Act as a pro-regulatory and pro-enforcement bill despite concerns from law enforcement groups over AML safeguards. Senator Cynthia Lummis warned that failure to pass the bill this year could delay comprehensive U.S. crypto market-structure legislation until 2030.
OFAC designated Iran-based Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex under Iran sanctions, warning foreign financial institutions and non-U.S. persons of secondary sanctions exposure. The action raises AML and sanctions-screening pressure on crypto exchanges, OTC brokers, and USDT-linked Iran corridors.
The CFTC awarded more than $8 million to five whistleblowers whose information supported an enforcement action against a fraudulent scheme. The awards reinforce the agency's retail-fraud enforcement capacity and tip-based surveillance model for derivatives and crypto-adjacent markets.
Circle blacklisted a Zama confidential USDC contract after a wallet linked to Overnight Finance was flagged in litigation, trapping roughly $12.6 million of shared cUSDC liquidity. The case shows how stablecoin compliance actions can create contract-level collateral damage for privacy wrappers, yield pools and other pooled stablecoin products.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets, nearly doubling the prior disclosed figure. The statement reinforces sanctions-screening pressure on stablecoin, exchange and chain-analytics workflows tied to Iran exposure.
The CFTC charged a Google software engineer with fraud and money laundering over alleged non-public-information trading on Polymarket event contracts. The case turns prediction markets into a live enforcement template for MNPI controls, employee access governance and event-contract surveillance.
ICIJ reported that Kraken transferred at least $1.1 billion of bitcoin to crypto ATM operators, including flows to Athena Bitcoin after official scrutiny of ATM fraud. The report increases pressure on exchanges and liquidity providers to monitor downstream ATM and cash-out channels.
California's DFPI announced a settlement requiring Hermes Bitcoin to cease operating all digital financial asset kiosks in California by May 20, citing alleged state-law violations and consumer-protection failures. The action keeps crypto ATM operators under heightened AML, fee-disclosure and fraud-prevention scrutiny.
The FDIC approved a proposed rule requiring FDIC-supervised permitted payment stablecoin issuers to follow BSA, AML/CFT, sanctions and reporting standards under the GENIUS Act. The proposal extends bank-style illicit-finance supervision and enforcement expectations into stablecoin issuance.
Treasury's FinCEN and OFAC proposal would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers to maintain AML/CFT and sanctions compliance programs under the GENIUS Act. The framework pushes stablecoin issuance toward bank-like illicit-finance controls and formal sanctions screening obligations.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sued CoinFlip parent GPD Holdings, alleging the crypto ATM operator facilitated scam transactions while profiting from them. The case raises state-level consumer-protection and anti-fraud expectations for cash-to-crypto rails.
OFAC sanctioned a Sinaloa Cartel-linked laundering network, with TRM Labs identifying six Ethereum addresses connected to the action. The case reinforces the need for exchanges and custodians to update sanctions screening with cartel, fentanyl, and on-chain cluster typologies.
Bitcoin Depot reportedly filed for Chapter 11 and moved to wind down a network of more than 9,000 crypto ATMs amid regulatory, fraud, and financial pressure. The case highlights how state-level ATM controls and AML expectations can directly reshape fiat-to-crypto access channels.
Chinese, US, and UAE police conducted a joint Dubai enforcement action against telecom-fraud networks, arresting 276 suspects across nine sites. The case involved high-return crypto investment lures and signals deeper law-enforcement coordination around pig-butchering and cross-border VASP risk.
Iran reportedly launched Hormuz Safe, a state-backed maritime insurance platform that can settle policies in bitcoin for Persian Gulf cargo operators. The model links BTC payments to sanctioned maritime activity and may force exchanges and brokers to screen Hormuz-related flows under OFAC secondary-sanctions risk.
Bitcoin Depot warned that restrictive Bitcoin ATM rules, enhanced KYC processes, delayed filings and more than $20 million in legal judgments have created substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The filing shows how AML, fraud-prevention and state-level kiosk rules can directly reshape the viability of crypto cash-in/out networks.