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Tron is a public blockchain network known for fast, low-cost transactions, widely used to issue and transfer stablecoins like USDT via its TRC-20 standard.
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Investigator JP says Tronify.rent took $69,651 from about 80 crypto users in September and that Google Gemini told one victim the site appeared safe. PhishDestroy had already scored the domain a critical 90/100 threat before that money went to the site.
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Bitget has recovered an estimated 0.2% of the $387.5 million hackers drained on September 24, through freezes by NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle. Its own User Protection Fund is covering the rest, so the protocols that cooperated cut Bitget's bill by less than $1 million.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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Treasury's OFAC sanctioned 10 people over Ploutus ATM jackpotting, a scheme US officials tie to at least 1,500 attacks and $40.7 million in losses. Treasury calls the thefts a key revenue source for the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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Justin Sun says the reports are fabricated. Either way, the screening cost of a 7.5 USDT deposit from an HTX-tagged wallet lands on whoever receives it.
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Justin Sun says he won a California hearing; World Liberty Financial says nothing was decided. The public docket settles neither, and the freeze power is what matters.
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The Southern District of New York filed on September 14 to take roughly $61 million in crypto from two China-based firms that used Binance trading accounts, under a standard of proof that stops at more likely than not.
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Elliptic and the US Secret Service froze 52 wallets holding $52.8 million in USDT on September 8. US sanctions followed a day later, Telegram deleted the channels the same day, and Xinbi says it is moving to a stablecoin nobody can freeze.
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Morningstar says single-stock funds, leveraged and derivative ones included, account for more than half of ETFs whose first prospectus was filed by June 30. The ten biggest hold about 44% of the category's assets.
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Chainalysis says writes of malware instructions to public blockchains have climbed from about 2.06 a day to 11.1 since July 2025, with groups tied to North Korea and Iran behind most of the increase. Its research lead could not confirm AI models helped.
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Chainalysis logged a 420% rise in onchain malware writes for its 2026 crime report, and says suspected Iranian operators ran their update channel through a permanent public Bitcoin address nobody can take offline.
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Prosecutors froze ten Tron addresses in June and July before filing on September 14. Getting the money into government hands means Tether destroys the frozen tokens and issues the same value again to an FBI hardware wallet.
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The Bank for International Settlements read about 100 billion records off Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron and concluded onchain indicators are rough approximations. Anything priced off them inherits the spread.
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OFAC listed the Xinbi marketplace and two software developers on September 9, with 52 TRON addresses that Chainalysis says received more than $8.4bn in stablecoins against Treasury's $24bn count for the platform.
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Tehran's tolerance of crypto export settlement is attested only by unnamed sources. Tether's $344m freeze in April 2026 is documented exactly, and it sits against $9.9bn of attributed 2025 volume that fell 13%.
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An April 2026 indictment over roughly $13 million in laundered Bitcoin and Tether sits alongside a 9 million shekel analytics contract and a court ruling letting Israeli police ask foreign issuers to freeze wallets.
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MetaMask and Trust Wallet both ship poisoning detection, and both keep it on EVM chains, which leaves Tron users doing the character-by-character checking themselves. The two largest victims paid $2.5M each.
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Two parameters, #95 and #96, would add a CLZ opcode and a P-256 precompile. The software deadline falls nine days before the vote, and stragglers fork themselves off the chain.
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MOEX plans Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures timed to Russia's new digital currency law, restricted to qualified investors and cash-settled through central clearing.
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Invest · August 16, 2026 · 1 publisher