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Jurisdiction: United States. Regulator: SEC / CFTC / Treasury / Congress. Topic: Enforcement. Latest event: August 16, 2026 — Nevada Gaming Regulator Seeks Daily Fines Against Kalshi Over Geofencing.
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Nevada gaming regulators sought daily penalties of $120,000 against Kalshi over alleged failures to fully block Nevada users after a geofencing order. The dispute turns prediction-market compliance into a state-level licensing, geolocation and consumer-protection control problem.
Baltimore filed lawsuits alleging Kalshi and Polymarket offered unlicensed sports wagering and misled consumers about prediction-market legality. The action extends event-contract scrutiny from federal market structure into local licensing and consumer-protection enforcement.
A King County Superior Court final order requires Kalshi to stop offering or facilitating multiple event-contract categories in Washington and implement geofencing controls. The order shows state gambling and consumer-protection rules can constrain prediction markets even when products are framed as federally regulated event contracts.
The CFTC charged Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado with operating an alleged $400 million crypto-asset fraud scheme. The case reinforces enhanced due diligence for pooled trading programs, custody claims, yield promises and investment-manager controls around BTC and other crypto exposure.
The SEC charged Adit Ventures Management, CEO Eric Munson and affiliated general partners with alleged fraud involving private fund investors. The action reinforces disclosure, valuation, conflicts and investor-protection controls for private funds and RWA-style exposure products.
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.
The CFTC ordered former Congressman George Santos to pay $35,000 for manipulative trading in a State of the Union event contract whose outcome he controlled. The action creates a benchmark for insider participation, public statements and conflicts of interest in regulated prediction markets.
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.
New York sued Kalshi, alleging its prediction market violates state gambling laws because it is not registered with the New York State Gaming Commission. The case intensifies the conflict between federally regulated event contracts and state-level consumer protection and gaming rules.
Senator Chuck Schumer proposed legislation to establish an anti-corruption bureau, with the reported text highlighting presidential and family crypto-related income and holdings. The proposal ties US crypto market-structure politics to executive-branch conflict-of-interest oversight, adding a governance risk layer to stablecoin, exchange and token legislation.
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.
The SEC said Principal Deputy Director of Enforcement Sam Waldon will leave on July 31, with Osman Nawaz succeeding him. The leadership change matters for digital asset enforcement timing as the agency resets priorities alongside U.S. market-structure legislation.
The Digital Chamber sued Illinois to block a 0.2% digital asset transaction tax, arguing the law is unconstitutional and federally preempted. The case could determine whether state-level crypto trading taxes become a direct venue and user-access constraint.
The policy channel cited a Washington state court preliminary injunction against Kalshi after the court treated its state activity as illegal gambling rather than solely federally regulated event contracts. The ruling intensifies jurisdiction checks for prediction-market products, especially geofencing, state-law gambling exposure and federal preemption assumptions.
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.
FTX announced a fifth distribution of approximately $900 million to creditors beginning July 31, with eligible claims paid through distribution service providers. The payout round creates phishing, claims-servicing and abnormal-funds-flow risks for exchanges and wallet providers handling former FTX users.
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 CFTC stayed a KalshiEX emergency rule change that would have cancelled previously executed Michigan-resident event contracts and ordered the exchange to fulfill open trades normally. The action asserts federal derivatives-market jurisdiction and raises compliance stakes for prediction markets facing state-level restrictions.
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.
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.
BIG3 faces a class action from NFT buyers alleging the league marketed expensive Ethereum NFTs with ownership, management and revenue-sharing expectations that were not honored. The case reinforces securities and consumer-protection risk around NFTs sold with financialized rights.
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.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called for elected officials and spouses to be barred from issuing or sponsoring digital assets, including memecoins. The proposal would turn political-affiliation checks for tokens and NFT projects into a market-structure and listing-compliance issue.
The CFTC ordered Netrios LP Ltd. and Red Acre Ltd. to pay $2.5 million for facilitating illegal off-exchange leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions with U.S. customers. The action reinforces that offshore firms and support providers can trigger U.S. derivatives enforcement when they touch ineligible U.S. retail customers.
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.
The Financial Times reported that the CFTC is investigating Polymarket as prediction-market volumes, Kalshi competition and consumer-protection scrutiny rise. The probe reinforces that event contracts, pUSD settlement products and prediction-market venues need a dedicated regulatory-risk classification.
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.
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 CFTC sued Kentucky to block state actions against federally regulated designated contract markets and event contracts. The case sharpens the federal-versus-state perimeter for Kalshi, Polymarket and other prediction-market venues that sit between derivatives regulation and gambling law.
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 daily policy channel flagged allegations that Polymarket used paid creator videos showing simulated trading and profit claims, turning prediction-market growth into a marketing-disclosure and user-misleading-risk issue. The compliance impact extends beyond event-contract licensing into advertising controls and retail-protection review.
The CFTC said a New York federal court entered a consent order resolving its 2023 action against Celsius founder Alexander Mashinsky. The order permanently bars him from trading and registration and reinforces anti-fraud enforcement expectations for digital-asset yield platforms and executives.
CME Group CEO Terry Duffy said the exchange plans to sue the CFTC over approval of U.S. crypto perpetual futures on Kalshi. The dispute escalates the legal test for whether prediction-market venues can host perpetual-style crypto derivatives under federal commodities oversight.
The New York Attorney General secured more than $5 million from Uphold over its promotion of CredEarn, finding the platform misled customers about a third-party crypto yield product and operated without required New York broker registration. The settlement reinforces state-level scrutiny of crypto yield marketing, due diligence and retail investor disclosures.
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.
The Texas State Securities Board entered an emergency cease and desist order against BG Wealth Sharing LTD, DSJ Exchange and related promoters over alleged unregistered securities, crypto MLM claims and withdrawal-fee tactics. The action reinforces state-level scrutiny of AI-branded crypto trading schemes.
The CFTC said it is ending the long-running settlement policy that required respondents not to publicly deny allegations after resolving enforcement matters. The change aligns with the SEC's recent rollback and may alter negotiation dynamics for crypto derivatives and prediction-market enforcement cases.
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.
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 moved to intervene in Rhode Island federal litigation to stop the state from applying gambling laws to CFTC-registered contract markets. The case escalates the federal-versus-state jurisdiction fight over prediction markets and affects Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com style event-contract access models.
The CFTC and Gemini jointly moved to vacate parts of a prior judgment and continuing injunction, with the agency indicating the case should not have been brought under current digital asset enforcement standards. The move signals a material recalibration of CFTC crypto enforcement posture.
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.
Reports that CFTC career staff were suspended after raising compliance concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com and Gemini Titan add governance risk to prediction-market and crypto-derivatives approvals. The case highlights why exchanges should diligence regulatory-path stability, political exposure and unresolved compliance reviews before relying on market-access approvals.
Reuters reported that Fenwick & West agreed to pay $54 million to resolve FTX customer claims alleging the law firm helped enable the exchange’s fraud. The settlement extends post-FTX accountability pressure to professional advisers and reinforces third-party service-provider due diligence as a crypto compliance risk area.
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 U.S. House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into whether Kalshi and Polymarket users can trade prediction contracts using non-public information. The inquiry moves prediction-market scrutiny into market-integrity controls, surveillance and insider-information governance.
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.
The CFTC sued Minnesota to block a new state law that would make operating or assisting prediction markets a criminal felony. The case escalates the federal-versus-state jurisdiction fight over event contracts and will shape compliance risk for crypto-native prediction markets.
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.
Three cryptocurrency employees were arrested in Singapore and extradited to the United States to face charges over a pump-and-dump fraud scheme. The defendants face wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy charges for artificially inflating a token price while planning to dump their holdings at peak. If convicted, each defendant faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine per violation. The case demonstrates strengthening cross-border enforcement cooperation between Singapore and US authorities.