The Baymak District Court of Bashkortostan has handed down a verdict against two local residents. They were found guilty of attempting to sell drugs as an organized group and of laundering criminal proceeds. A special financial scheme was used in the case. The couriers’ illicit revenue came in as cryptocurrency and was then laundered through conversion into rubles. The case vividly illustrates…

CME Group plans to file a lawsuit against the CFTC over the approval of perpetual futures, its CEO Terrence Duffy said in an interview with CNBC. According to him, such contracts fall under the definition of swaps and should be regulated accordingly. A bit of context: at the end of May 2026 CFTC chairman Michael Selig stated that the regulator "opened…

At the core of bitcoin is an open ledger, so with the proper skill any transfer can be traced from address to address. A whole industry has grown out of this: traders track whales and inflows to exchanges, blockchain forensics experts help recover stolen funds, and compliance filters out "dirty" coins. In this guide we will go step by step through how to analyze transactions…

The analytical division of Grayscale Investments published a study on valuing crypto assets through traditional financial models and stated that the token of the DeFi protocol Aave could be worth about $175 within a year under the base market scenario. In addition, Grayscale singled out Uniswap and Hyperliquid as examples of protocols with effective…

The abandoned protocol Aztec Connect was hacked again. As security specialists from BlockSec Phalcon and SlowMist reported, on June 18 an attacker withdrew about another $2.2 million from it. This is already the second blow to the protocol in a week after the attack on June 14. This time the hacker stole 1,158 ETH, 150,000 DAI, and about 0.47 of a renBTC token. The attack