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Сообщение ChainCatcher, по данным CNN, сенаторы от Демократической партии США Элизабет Уоррен и Ричард Блументал требуют от Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) расследовать мем-валюту Трампа TRUMP, чтобы подтвердить, связано ли это с мошенничеством или неправомерной выгодой. В письме к председателю SEC Полу Аткинсу они заявили, что проект мем-валюты Трампа "может представлять собой незаконную схему" и требуют от регулятора расследовать, существует ли "незаконное мошенничество или содействие неправомерному получению выгоды".Согласно сообщениям, Трамп запустил свою личную мем-валюту TRUMP за несколько дней до своей инаугурации в 2025 году. После запуска цена токена резко возросла, достигнув рыночной капитализации около 9 миллиардов долларов 19 января 2025 года, но затем значительно упала. В настоящее время рыночная капитализация токена снизилась до менее 400 миллионов долларов, что составляет более 95% от пикового значения. Согласно данным криптоплатформы CoinMarketCap, инвесторы, купившие на пике, сейчас сталкиваются с убытками около 97%. Блокчейн-аналитическая компания Nansen ранее сообщала, что по состоянию на конец июня почти 1 миллион инвесторов понесли убытки из-за этой мем-валюты, общая сумма потерь составила около 3,8 миллиарда долларов. Около 80% предложения мем-валюты Трампа принадлежит связанным с Трампом организациям. Ранее Трамп заявлял, что соблюдает закон и позволяет своей семье управлять личными финансовыми делами.Элизабет Уоррен и Ричард Блументал в своем письме акцентируют внимание на том, похож ли этот проект на "Rug Pull" в криптоиндустрии. Они считают, что даже если это не традиционный случай внезапного вывода средств, это может быть "мягкий вывод", который приводит к потерям инвесторов из-за постепенного вывода поддержки с рынка; на данный момент SEC не прокомментировала эту ситуацию.

Сообщение ChainCatcher, аналитик блокчейна Specter опубликовал предупреждение для сообщества на платформе X, что у экосистемного проекта BNB Chain CodexField подозревается наличие мошенничества и риска Rug Pull. Проект собрал более 85 миллионов долларов при официальной поддержке BNB Chain.Specter отслеживает, что кошелек проекта начал переводить 17,3 миллиона USDT с Tron на Ethereum, затем через Bitget Swap обменял на DAI и перевел на Polygon, в настоящее время было переведено 6,5 миллиона долларов, оставшиеся 10,8 миллиона долларов все еще ожидают обработки. Проект управляет двумя доменными именами и четырьмя поддоменами для депозитов пользователей, и Blocksec MetaSuites пометил депозитный контракт как "Fake CodexField", но доказательства на блокчейне показывают, что этот контракт контролируется самой командой проекта. Движение средств проекта аномально, через мультичейн, промежуточные кошельки в конечном итоге поступают на централизованные биржи, только два кошелька Tron уже внесли более 3,4 миллиона долларов на биржу. Specter призывает основателя Binance Чанпэна Чжао и BNB Chain обратить внимание на это дело и, возможно, начать расследование.

According to CoinDesk, Elena Carletti, an executive at UniCredit Bank in Italy, warned that Europe may struggle to cope with the financial shocks related to crypto companies and banks. Carletti pointed out that when Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed in 2023, the United States decided to protect all deposits, including funds held by stablecoin issuers, a measure that helped stabilize the crypto market.Carletti stated that Europe cannot easily take the same measures. The EU's MiCA regulations require stablecoin issuers to hold reserve assets in liquid assets such as bank deposits and government securities, which ties them more closely to traditional banks. However, the European deposit guarantee system typically only protects up to €100,000 per bank per depositor. If large stablecoin reserve accounts come under pressure, this limit may not be sufficient to absorb the shock. Carletti described this as a "double weakness."

According to the on-chain analysis platform Bubblemaps, the same address cluster it marked has sold approximately $600,000 worth of CWU tokens, but the related addresses still hold about 85% of the CWU supply. The token previously attracted attention due to support from the former president of Ghana.

According to The Block, Bitcoin fell below $78,000 on Thursday, with growing concerns in the market about the momentum for a subsequent rebound. Data shows that Bitcoin spot ETFs have seen a net outflow of funds for four consecutive trading days, while the liquidation of approximately $584 million in long positions earlier this week continues to suppress market risk appetite. Analysts believe that before on-chain spot demand recovers, BTC will still struggle to effectively hold above $80,000 in the short term.Glassnode analysis points out that Bitcoin's spot CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta) has been negative for nine consecutive trading days, marking the longest net selling period since 2026. When Bitcoin previously rebounded to $82,000, it briefly reclaimed the key level of $78,300, the "real market average," but has now fallen below it again. Historical cycles show that BTC typically needs to consolidate in this area for several weeks to months to confirm a switch in the bull-bear structure.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against two money laundering networks associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel, involving more than a dozen individuals and entities. One of the networks is accused of converting cash from the sale of fentanyl and other drugs into cryptocurrency and transferring it to high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.OFAC stated that the network laundered money through cash collection within the United States, cryptocurrency transfers, and Mexican brokers associated with the "Los Chapitos" faction. "Los Chapitos" is controlled by Ivan and Alfredo Guzman Salazar, the sons of "Shorty" Guzman. Sanctioned individuals include Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles, who is suspected of being responsible for the money laundering network, and Jesus Gonzalez Penuelas, another leader of a drug trafficking and money laundering organization.OFAC noted that the organization collects large amounts of cash in the United States, exchanges it for cryptocurrency, and sends it back to Mexico. Under the sanctions, the assets of the relevant individuals and entities within the United States will be frozen, and U.S. citizens

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against an operator of the Sinaloa drug cartel, accusing him of using cryptocurrency to transfer drug trafficking proceeds back to Mexico. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that those sanctioned include Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles and several of his associates, who laundered sales revenue from fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine for the Sinaloa cartel.The network relies on couriers within the United States to collect cash and transfers funds through digital currency addresses. In April 2024, a federal grand jury in Colorado indicted another associate of Ojeda, Rodrigo Alarcon Palomares, accusing him of laundering drug proceeds through cryptocurrency.

According to Arkham monitoring, Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins purchased $30,000 worth of BTC between 2011 and 2012, which is now worth $400 million, but he lost the private key and is in prison. These BTC were once thought to be lost until a month ago when 500 BTC were transferred for the first time after being dormant for 10 years. Just recently, another 500 bitcoins (worth $38 million) were transferred.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn posted on the X platform that the CLARITY Act currently has a higher urgency, one reason being the intense competition for control of the U.S. Senate. If the Democrats regain control of the Senate, former Senator Sherrod Brown may reclaim the chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee; however, if he fails to win the Ohio Senate election but the Democrats still secure control of the Senate, the committee may be led by Elizabeth Warren.The potential personnel changes mentioned above could significantly impact the regulatory direction of the cryptocurrency industry, thereby increasing the real urgency for advancing the CLARITY Act. Note: Elizabeth Warren is not friendly towards the cryptocurrency industry; she has urged the U.S. Treasury to implement strict accompanying rules for the GENIUS Act and has explicitly issued guidance prohibiting the use of federal resources such as the foreign exchange stabilization fund or the Federal Reserve's emergency lending tools to backstop stablecoins and the cryptocurrency industry.

According to the Korea Herald, two active-duty sergeants in their 30s from the South Korean Army Special Warfare Command were sentenced to two years in prison by the Changwon District Court on April 26 for illegally operating an unreported virtual asset exchange during their service and assisting in money laundering for drug transactions, and were fined 54.69 million won.Investigations revealed that the defendants operated an illegal trading platform through Telegram from 2023 to 2024, assisting buyers in converting approximately 54.69 million won in drug payments into virtual currency and transferring it to sellers on 90 occasions.

According to market news, Pasternak, the founder of the Solana ecosystem application Believe, has been charged in a New York court for allegedly participating in a crypto rug pull scam.The incident involves the Solana public chain ecosystem and is suspected to be related to millions of dollars in losses. As the person in charge of the Believe project, Pasternak is accused of using the project to commit fraud, resulting in significant financial losses for investors. The case is currently under trial, and relevant details have not yet been fully disclosed.

According to a report by South Korea's News1, the Korean "drug lord" Park Wang-ryeol (phonetic) who was apprehended in the Philippines has been transferred to the Korean Drug Crime Joint Investigation Headquarters. Authorities will focus on tracing his hidden funds and Bitcoin transaction records, and will begin to arrest related accomplices.Park Wang-ryeol is accused of continuously smuggling and selling drugs within South Korea from November 2019 to July 2024, with confirmed criminal proceeds amounting to approximately 6.8 billion won. Additionally, drugs valued at around 6.4 billion won, including methamphetamine (12.7 kilograms), were seized during smuggling, bringing the total scale of the case to about 13.1 billion won.As outsiders believe that the aforementioned amounts do not match his long-term operational scale, the investigation will focus on his hidden assets. Park Wang-ryeol has received payments for drug sales through non-discounted deposits and Bitcoin wallets, and authorities plan to analyze the on-chain transaction records of the involved Bitcoin wallets.

According to a report by Cointelegraph, a staff paper from the European Central Bank points out that the governance tokens of DeFi protocols are highly centralized, with about half or more of the holdings of governance tokens for Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap related to the protocol itself or exchanges.The main voting participants are mostly delegated representatives, and in many cases, these representatives cannot be identified or associated with the token holders. The study questions whether DeFi DAOs have sufficient decentralization to be excluded from the MiCA regulatory framework and provides a reference for policymakers to include relevant entities in regulation.

According to Cointelegraph, the Criminal Assets Bureau of the Irish National Police has announced that it has successfully cracked one of the 12 Bitcoin wallets associated with a convicted drug dealer, retrieving 500 Bitcoins worth over 35 million dollars.The wallet owner is Clifton Collins, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 for cultivating and selling cannabis. Collins purchased 6,000 Bitcoins with drug trade proceeds between 2011 and 2012, storing them across 12 wallets, with the keys printed on an A4 sheet of paper and hidden in a fishing rod case, which were later lost when his landlord cleared the house.Earlier today, it was reported that the Irish drug dealer deposited 500 BTC into Coinbase after nearly 10 years, worth 35.44 million dollars.

Collins purchased approximately 6,000 BTC with proceeds from marijuana sales between 2011 and 2012, and stored them across 12 wallets. His private keys were saved in paper form, hidden in a fishing rod case in a rental property in Galway, Ireland. After Collins was arrested in 2017, the house was cleared out, and his personal belongings were sent to a landfill.Subsequently, both the authorities and Collins believed that the private keys had been permanently lost, and the court ruled that the related assets were to be confiscated as criminal proceeds. The on-chain transfer of 500 BTC indicates that this batch of assets may not have been completely lost.

According to CriptoNoticias, the National Anti-Drug Secretariat of Paraguay (Senad) held a seminar titled "Dismantling Criminal and Terrorist Financial Networks" at the Sheraton Hotel in Asunción in collaboration with the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative and the Higher Institute of the Prosecutor's Office. The aim was to enhance the technical capabilities of law enforcement personnel in identifying and combating criminal organizations that use Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies for money concealment.The seminar focused on analyzing the trend of transnational criminal networks in the tri-border area moving towards digitalization and involved the "Trapiche Operation" case related to financing networks associated with Hezbollah. General Mirko Sokol, the Commander of the Bolivian Police, revealed at the meeting that after the arrest of Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset, no large amounts of cash were found at his residence, and related transactions were primarily conducted through cryptocurrencies.The Paraguayan Tax Authority (DNIT) issued Resolution No. 47/26 on March 11, requiring cryptocurrency trading platforms to report detailed information on each transaction, including wallet addresses, the networks used, and transaction hash values.

According to Jinshi, U.S. President Trump announced the establishment of a new military alliance to eliminate drug trafficking groups.

Ethereum consensus layer core contributor Greg posted on the X platform revealing the insider details of the resignation of Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Tomasz Stańczak. He expressed that he was not surprised by this event, as there has long been power struggles within the Ethereum Foundation. The organizational inertia of "this is how the Ethereum Foundation operates" makes reforms difficult to implement. Over the past year, core figure Vitalik Buterin has been mostly absent, leading to issues such as resource inefficiency and project stagnation within the foundation.The internal reforms initially promoted by Tomasz Stańczak were not widely accepted, which may have led to his departure. In fact, he has extensive industry experience, including backgrounds in Nethermind, Flashbots, and venture capital. Although potential conflicts of interest were disclosed in advance, some community members still have doubts about this.Additionally, Tomasz Stańczak sincerely hopes to return to technical development, but he is likely to encounter resistance in the reform process at the Ethereum Foundation, which may force him to leave. In the future, it will be necessary to introduce leaders with real business experience and decision-making power to drive the organization’s effective operation.