Behind Russia's public crypto plans, bank recruitment notices describe a more detailed buildout from cross-border liquidity to DeFi risk, The Coinformer found.

Sanctioned Russian lender Sber plans to accept USDT as collateral for loans, even though Tether reserves the power to freeze and blacklist wallets.

Russia's CBDC rollout is running into an Apple problem as sanctioned banks struggle to distribute digital-ruble-enabled iPhone apps.

A newly sanctioned crypto wallet tied to an Iran-linked hacker directly received a ransomware payment, according to new Chainalysis analysis.

NoOnes, once led by Paxful co-founder Ray Youssef, is shutting down after saying EU sanctions made the business unsustainable.

Ilan Shor, the convicted fraudster running Russia-linked payment network A7, says he wants customers in places which have already sanctioned him.

The EU put HTX under a transaction ban two days after researchers said it had been replacing wallets every few hours.

Russia's elite have moved billions of dollars abroad, with crypto becoming one way to move wealth across borders and beyond the Kremlin's reach.

The UK's HTX sanctions have turned into a headache for on-chain investigators, who say wallet-risk scores now catch too much to mean much.

A UK sanctions action against HTX is now creating new headaches for Hyperliquid users, who say screening tools on frontends are blocking their wallets.