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Ledger released a new update, Ledger Recover, which includes ID verification

The CFTC has dished out its highest ever civil monetary penalty to the operator of an illegal bitcoin commodity pool

Exclusive: Halborn’s 100 “white hat hackers” are getting a crypto fraud detection assist from Chainalysis, an executive told Blockworks

BKCoin Management and one of its former executives misused millions of dollars raised from crypto investors, agency says

The Justice Department seized $56 million from BitConnect in 2021, and is now returning just $17 million to 800 victims

US bankruptcy code clawback methods used after the infamous Ponzi scheme are likely to be key in recovery efforts for FTX victims

Sam Bankman-Fried is having a moment, equal parts baffling and infuriating, after a late night Twitter interview

A group claiming responsibility for removing $112 million from Mango Markets last week called it a “highly profitable trading strategy”

Sardine intends to use the capital to accelerate development of its compliance platform, instant settlement offerings

Chicago Crypto Capital allegedly raised $1.5 million by offering unregistered Beaxy tokens to inexperienced investors

EmpiresX claimed it operated a trading bot that guaranteed returns to investors and now founders are on the run

The Terraform Labs CEO gives first interview to Coinage, discusses Terra failure

The US regulator to continue attempting to expand its authority over the industry amid regulatory uncertainty, industry watchers say

Shkreli, AKA “Pharma Bro,” developed a blockchain-based drug discovery software that tests the power of tokenomics

The CFTC first charged McAfee and Watson in March 2021

The commodities watchdog accused MTI of promising to grow investors’ assets with a bot that didn’t exist

More than 46,000 people were affected, the FTC found, though the total is just 3.3% of the losses reported for phone scams last year

Self-custody wallet provider partners with Asset Reality to build investigations against scammers

Defendants had plans for a follow-up NFT collection after siphoning funds from their first project, Frosties, according to a criminal complaint

Of more than 16,000 possible scams reported to the UK regulator between April and September 2021, about 3,000 were related to cryptocurrencies

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs said it was the first UK authority to ever seize an NFT

Twitter users flagged suspicious transactions on Etherscan, leading to the company to admit that an employee used inside knowledge to front run the market.