| 20 Dec 2024 | SEC | Tai Mo Shan agreed to pay $123 million to settle SEC charges it misled investors about TerraUSD stability and acted as an unregistered LUNA underwriter. | Settlement | $123.0m penalty |
| 20 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Two Southern California men were indicted for allegedly running NFT rugpull schemes that defrauded investors of over $22 million. | Criminal charge | $22.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former South Lake Tahoe man was indicted on 12 counts of wire fraud in an alleged cryptocurrency investment scam. | Criminal charge | — |
| 17 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto research firm finance executive was sentenced to 48 months for stealing about $4.46 million from his employer. | Sentence | $4.5m stolen |
| 16 Dec 2024 | SEC | SEC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Cast Your Nets Ministries and affiliates in a probe involving an advertised crypto asset. | Other action | — |
| 16 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted a Springfield, Virginia man of sending over $185,000 in cryptocurrency to support ISIS. | Conviction | $185,000 laundering |
| 16 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Seattle forfeited about 32.68 Bitcoin tied to a business email compromise scheme, aiming to repay victims. | Seizure or forfeiture | $900,000 forfeiture |
| 13 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former Secret Service agent pleaded guilty to stealing about $56,000 in cryptocurrency from an agency evidence vault. | Guilty plea | $56,000 stolen |
| 12 Dec 2024 | DOJ | An Austin, Texas man was sentenced to two years in prison for filing false tax returns underreporting bitcoin gains. | Sentence | $1.1m restitution |
| 12 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A Houston couple was sentenced to prison for running an unlicensed money transmitting business that laundered drug proceeds via virtual currency. | Sentence | $33.0m laundering |
| 11 Dec 2024 | CFTC | A federal court ordered five individuals behind Icomtech to pay over $5 million in restitution and penalties for a bitcoin trading fraud. | Civil action | $5.0m penalty |
| 11 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former Spokane man was sentenced to 41 months in prison for a fake cryptocurrency investment fund scheme that defrauded investors. | Sentence | $350,000 alleged fraud |
| 10 Dec 2024 | CFTC | CFTC sued a Washington state pastor and his Solanofi entities over an alleged $5.9 million crypto MLM scheme targeting Hispanic Americans. | Civil action | $5.9m alleged fraud |
| 05 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A Nebraska man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded cloud providers of over $3.5 million in computing resources. | Guilty plea | $3.5m stolen |
| 03 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Two men were sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison for their roles in the IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. | Sentence | $40,000 forfeiture |
| 03 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Celsius founder and former CEO pleaded guilty to commodities and securities fraud, agreeing to forfeit over $48 million. | Guilty plea | $48.0m forfeiture |
| 29 Nov 2024 | SEC | SEC sued Touzi Capital and its managing member for allegedly misleading investors in crypto mining fund offerings raising over $100 million. | Civil action | $100.0m alleged fraud |
| 25 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A Massachusetts man was convicted at trial of money laundering and running an unlicensed business converting cash to Bitcoin. | Conviction | $25,000 laundering |
| 20 Nov 2024 | DOJ | Nine people were charged with laundering drug cash into cryptocurrency for Mexican and Colombian cartels and running unlicensed money transmission. | Criminal charge | — |
| 15 Nov 2024 | DOJ | An Ohio man who operated the Helix darknet bitcoin mixer was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to forfeit over $400M. | Sentence | $311.1m laundering |
| 14 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A hacker was sentenced to five years in prison for laundering about 120,000 bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. | Sentence | — |
| 12 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A foreign national pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder at least $73.6 million from crypto investment scam victims via shell companies and USDT. | Guilty plea | $73.6m laundering |
| 08 Nov 2024 | DOJ | The operator of the Bitcoin Fog darknet mixer was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for laundering about $400 million in bitcoin. | Sentence | $395.6m forfeiture |
| 04 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A northern Minnesota man was indicted for allegedly using his former employer's AWS account to mine Ethereum in a cryptojacking scheme. | Criminal charge | $45,000 stolen |
| 04 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A judge ordered over $8 million in seized funds distributed as restitution to investors after a former bank CEO's crypto embezzlement. | Other action | $8.0m restitution |
| 31 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker Gotbit indicted in superseding indictment for alleged wash trading and wire fraud conspiracy. | Criminal charge | — |
| 31 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted an Alabama NFT developer of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a Solana NFT rug pull. | Conviction | $400,000 alleged fraud |
| 30 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker MyTrade pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud via wash trading bots. | Guilty plea | — |
| 28 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Indiana man was charged in a superseding indictment with money laundering and tax crimes tied to running unlicensed exchange AurumXchange. | Criminal charge | $30.0m laundering |
| 17 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Alabama man was arrested and charged over a SIM swap that hijacked the SEC's X account to post a fake bitcoin ETF approval. | Criminal charge | — |
| 17 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Indian national was sentenced to 60 months in prison for stealing over $20 million in crypto via fake Coinbase websites. | Sentence | $20.0m stolen |
| 16 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A senior promoter of the Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 240 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million. | Sentence | $3.6m forfeiture |
| 15 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC charges crypto market maker ZM Quant and two employees with allegedly manipulating markets for crypto assets through wash trading. | Civil action | — |
| 15 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC sues crypto market maker Gotbit and an employee for allegedly manipulating the market for the Robo Inu crypto asset via wash trading. | Civil action | — |
| 15 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC charges UAE market maker CLS Global and an employee with allegedly manipulating trading in the NexFundAI crypto asset. | Civil action | — |
| 15 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC charged a California crypto promoter with manipulating markets for Saitama Inu and Robo Inu; she consented to a bifurcated settlement. | Settlement | — |
| 10 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC sued Cumberland DRW for allegedly operating as an unregistered dealer in over $2 billion of crypto asset securities. | Civil action | $2.00bn |
| 09 Oct 2024 | SEC | SEC charged three purported crypto market makers and nine individuals with manipulating markets for crypto assets sold as securities. | Civil action | — |
| 09 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Eighteen individuals and entities, including crypto token firms and market makers, were charged in Boston over alleged wash trading and pump-and-dump schemes. | Criminal charge | $25.0m forfeiture |
| 04 Oct 2024 | DOJ | US filed a civil forfeiture complaint against 200,000 USDT traced from bitcoin fraudulently taken from an Ohio victim's wallet. | Seizure or forfeiture | $200,000 forfeiture |
| 04 Oct 2024 | DOJ | The founder of cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme IcomTech was sentenced to 121 months in prison. | Sentence | — |
| 02 Oct 2024 | SEC | Rari Capital and its three co-founders consented to final judgments over unregistered crypto pool offerings and misleading yield claims. | Settlement | $63,568 penalty |
| 01 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A 21-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty to conspiracies over a cyber intrusion that stole $37 million in crypto from about 600 victims. | Guilty plea | $37.0m stolen |
| 27 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC settled charges against Mango DAO, Blockworks Foundation and Mango Labs over unregistered MNGO token sales and broker activity. | Settlement | $700,000 penalty |
| 27 Sept 2024 | CFTC | CFTC sued fake trading platforms Aipu and Fidefx for allegedly misappropriating $3.6 million from customers in an online scam. | Civil action | $3.6m alleged fraud |
| 27 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC sued a U.K. citizen alleged to have hacked five U.S. public companies and traded on earnings data, using bitcoin to hide his identity. | Civil action | $3.8m alleged fraud |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | Two Russian nationals charged with running money laundering services and carding sites; DOJ seizes domains of crypto exchanges including Cryptex. | Criminal charge | $1.15bn laundering |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | A Long Island man was convicted at trial of wire fraud, money laundering and stolen property conspiracy in a crypto brokering and investment fraud. | Conviction | $5.0m alleged fraud |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | The US seized over $6 million in cryptocurrency tied to a Southeast Asia-based crypto-confidence investment scam targeting Americans. | Seizure or forfeiture | $6.0m forfeiture |
| 25 Sept 2024 | SEC | TrueCoin and TrustToken settled SEC charges over unregistered, misleadingly marketed TUSD stablecoin investment offerings. | Settlement | $163,766 penalty |
| 24 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained a consented final judgment and $75,000 penalty against a Canadian man in Long Blockchain insider trading case. | Settlement | $75,000 penalty |
| 24 Sept 2024 | CFTC | CFTC charged four online binary options platforms offering crypto-based products with failing to register as futures commission merchants. | Civil action | — |
| 20 Sept 2024 | CFTC | A federal court ordered a New York man to pay over $36 million in restitution and penalties for a forex and digital asset fraud scheme. | Civil action | $36.0m penalty |
| 19 Sept 2024 | DOJ | Two young men were charged with conspiring to steal and launder over $230 million in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C. victim. | Criminal charge | $230.0m stolen |
| 18 Sept 2024 | SEC | Audit firm Prager Metis agreed to pay $745,000 to settle SEC charges of negligence in its audits of crypto platform FTX. | Settlement | $745,000 penalty |
| 18 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC settled charges against DeFi platform Rari Capital and its co-founders for misleading investors and acting as unregistered brokers. | Settlement | — |
| 17 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC sued CoinW6 alleging a romance investment scam using a fake crypto trading platform that stole about $2.2 million from investors. | Civil action | $2.2m stolen |
| 17 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC sued four entities and three individuals over an alleged relationship scam using the fake NanoBit crypto trading platform. | Civil action | $2.0m stolen |
| 13 Sept 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man was sentenced to 47 years, and 11 co-conspirators also sentenced, for violent home invasions and SIM swaps to steal crypto. | Sentence | $3.5m stolen |
| 12 Sept 2024 | DOJ | An Austin, Texas man pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return underreporting gains from bitcoin sales, causing over $550,000 tax loss. | Guilty plea | $550,000 |
| 12 Sept 2024 | SEC | eToro USA settled SEC charges of operating an unregistered broker and clearing agency for crypto trading, paying a $1.5 million penalty. | Settlement | $1.5m penalty |
| 10 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC sued an Alabama private fund manager alleging he misled investors in a fund that raised at least $852,000 in crypto assets. | Civil action | $852,000 alleged fraud |
| 04 Sept 2024 | CFTC | Uniswap Labs settled CFTC charges that it illegally offered leveraged digital asset tokens to retail users, paying a $175,000 penalty. | Settlement | $175,000 penalty |
| 03 Sept 2024 | CFTC | Federal court orders an Oregon man and his funds to pay over $209 million for crypto commodity pool Ponzi schemes; CFTC recovers $18 million. | Civil action | $209.6m penalty |
| 03 Sept 2024 | SEC | SEC settled charges with crypto-focused adviser Galois Capital over custody rule failures and misleading redemption terms; $225,000 penalty. | Settlement | $225,000 penalty |
| 30 Aug 2024 | SEC | SEC charges two brothers and their firms with an alleged $60 million crypto arbitrage bot Ponzi scheme and obtains an asset freeze. | Civil action | $60.0m alleged fraud |
| 26 Aug 2024 | SEC | SEC filed settled charges against Abra for unregistered offers and sales of its Abra Earn crypto lending product and operating as an unregistered investment company. | Settlement | $600.0m |
| 26 Aug 2024 | SEC | SEC charged two brothers and their firms with an alleged $60 million crypto arbitrage Ponzi scheme and obtained asset freezes. | Civil action | $60.0m alleged fraud |
| 22 Aug 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in North Carolina seized nearly $5 million in Tether traced to laundered proceeds of pig butchering investment scams. | Seizure or forfeiture | $5.0m forfeiture |
| 12 Aug 2024 | SEC | SEC charged NovaTech, its two principals and six promoters over an alleged $650 million crypto investment fraud targeting 200,000 investors. | Civil action | $650.0m alleged fraud |
| 09 Aug 2024 | SEC | Ideanomics and three executives settled SEC fraud charges over misleading financials, including improper accounting for a crypto asset deal. | Settlement | $1.4m penalty |
| 08 Aug 2024 | CFTC | CFTC obtained a consent judgment ordering FTX and Alameda to pay $12.7 billion in restitution and disgorgement to fraud victims. | Settlement | $12.70bn restitution |
| 30 Jul 2024 | SEC | SEC sued the founder of BitClout, alleging fraud and an unregistered offering of the BTCLT token that raised over $257 million. | Civil action | $257.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 Jul 2024 | DOJ | The founder of the BitClout token was arrested and charged with wire fraud for allegedly misleading an investor about control of about $3 million. | Criminal charge | $3.0m alleged fraud |
| 26 Jul 2024 | CFTC | Federal court orders a former El Paso man and Kikit & Mess Investments to pay over $31 million for a forex and crypto fraud scheme. | Civil action | — |
| 24 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A Georgia man was sentenced to 32 months in prison for taking over $1.1 million for crypto mining computers he never delivered. | Sentence | $1.1m restitution |
| 18 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto research firm finance VP pleaded guilty to wire fraud for stealing about $4.46 million from his employer. | Guilty plea | $4.5m stolen |
| 16 Jul 2024 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $2.5 million in USDT allegedly tied to pig butchering scams targeting Americans. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.5m forfeiture |
| 10 Jul 2024 | DOJ | BitMEX operator HDR Global Trading pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to maintain an AML program. | Guilty plea | — |
| 08 Jul 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained default judgments against two promoters of the $45 million CoinDeal unregistered offering fraud scheme. | Civil action | $45.0m alleged fraud |
| 03 Jul 2024 | CFTC | A federal court granted the CFTC summary judgment against an Oregon man and his funds over a crypto Ponzi scheme, ordering $83.7M restitution. | Civil action | $83.7m restitution |
| 03 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A Colorado man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for stealing about $2.1 million in cryptocurrency from a client he advised. | Sentence | $2.1m stolen |
| 02 Jul 2024 | SEC | Silvergate Capital and two former executives settled SEC charges of misleading investors about its AML monitoring of crypto customers. | Settlement | $50.0m penalty |
| 01 Jul 2024 | SEC | SEC sued Consensys Software alleging unregistered securities offers via MetaMask Staking and operating as an unregistered broker. | Civil action | — |
| 26 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A man from Uzbekistan was extradited and arraigned on charges of using a fake crypto wallet app to steal about $11.8 million in EOS. | Criminal charge | $11.8m stolen |
| 26 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A former Spokane man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for running a fake crypto investment fund that took over $350,000 from investors. | Guilty plea | $350,000 alleged fraud |
| 25 Jun 2024 | SEC | An investment adviser and its president consented to final judgments and $425,000 in penalties over fraud including undisclosed loss of crypto assets. | Settlement | $425,000 penalty |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto company CEO and its finance head were sentenced to prison for manipulating the price of the HYDRO token. | Sentence | $2.0m alleged fraud |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man was convicted by a federal jury for leading a crew that used violent home invasions and kidnappings to steal cryptocurrency. | Conviction | $150,000 stolen |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A South Texas man was sentenced for receiving child sexual abuse material he purchased with cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 21 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Colorado man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for soliciting investors in a fake crypto MEV trading bot, with losses over $2.2 million. | Guilty plea | $2.2m alleged fraud |
| 13 Jun 2024 | SEC | Terraform Labs and its co-founder agreed to pay more than $4.5 billion to settle SEC fraud claims after a jury verdict on the UST collapse. | Settlement | $4.50bn penalty |
| 12 Jun 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained a court order enforcing an investigative subpoena to the issuer of LGBCoin, denying his petition to quash. | Other action | — |
| 05 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man who was a senior promoter of the Forcount crypto Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. | Guilty plea | $4.0m forfeiture |
| 30 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Estonian men charged in an alleged $575 million HashFlare crypto mining Ponzi scheme were extradited to the U.S. | Criminal charge | $575.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Estonian nationals were extradited to the US to face charges over an alleged $575M HashFlare crypto mining Ponzi scheme. | Other action | $575.0m alleged fraud |
| 29 May 2024 | DOJ | A disbarred California attorney pleaded guilty to conspiring in a $9.5 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme using fake AI trading promises. | Guilty plea | $9.5m alleged fraud |
| 28 May 2024 | DOJ | A former FTX executive was sentenced to 90 months for unlawful political contributions and running an unlicensed money transmitting business. | Sentence | $6.0m forfeiture |
| 23 May 2024 | SEC | A federal court granted the SEC partial summary judgment finding a crypto influencer sold SPRK tokens in an unregistered securities offering. | Civil action | $5.0m |
| 23 May 2024 | DOJ | A former Kansas bank CEO pleaded guilty to embezzling $47.1 million of bank funds sent to crypto wallets, causing the bank to fail. | Guilty plea | $47.1m stolen |
| 17 May 2024 | DOJ | A Brooklyn man posing as a crypto entrepreneur pleaded guilty to wire fraud for swindling investors of over $1.3 million. | Guilty plea | $1.3m restitution |
| 17 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Chinese nationals were arrested and charged with laundering at least $73 million from crypto investment scams through shell companies. | Criminal charge | $73.0m laundering |
| 16 May 2024 | DOJ | A Helena man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for distributing fentanyl he bought on the dark web with cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 16 May 2024 | DOJ | Secret Service seized a web domain used in a crypto pig butchering scheme that cost a Warren County victim over $341,000. | Seizure or forfeiture | $341,000 stolen |
| 15 May 2024 | DOJ | Two brothers were arrested and charged with allegedly exploiting the Ethereum blockchain to steal about $25 million in crypto in 12 seconds. | Criminal charge | $25.0m stolen |
| 13 May 2024 | CFTC | CFTC settled charges against Falcon Labs for acting as an unregistered FCM giving U.S. customers access to crypto derivatives platforms. | Settlement | $589,504 penalty |
| 07 May 2024 | DOJ | Former CEO of crypto futures exchange Digitex Futures pleaded guilty to causing Bank Secrecy Act violations by skipping an AML program. | Guilty plea | — |
| 07 May 2024 | DOJ | A former California nonprofit CEO was arrested on charges she embezzled over $225,000 in federal grants, partly for cryptocurrency. | Criminal charge | $225,000 stolen |
| 03 May 2024 | DOJ | Three former Cred LLC executives were indicted for an alleged crypto lending fraud causing customer losses possibly exceeding $780 million. | Criminal charge | $783.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 Apr 2024 | DOJ | An early bitcoin investor known as 'Bitcoin Jesus' was indicted for allegedly evading taxes on bitcoin holdings, causing a $48 million IRS loss. | Criminal charge | $48.0m alleged fraud |
| 24 Apr 2024 | SEC | SEC charged Texas crypto mining and hosting firm Geosyn Mining and its co-founders with an alleged $5.6 million fraudulent unregistered offering. | Civil action | $5.6m alleged fraud |
| 24 Apr 2024 | DOJ | Two co-founders of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet were arrested and charged with money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting conspiracies. | Criminal charge | $100.0m laundering |
| 18 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A California man was charged in a tech-support impersonation scam that took a retiree's savings via Bitcoin ATMs and gold purchases. | Criminal charge | — |
| 18 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Puerto Rico man was convicted by a jury of manipulating Mango Markets to obtain about $110 million in cryptocurrency. | Conviction | $110.0m stolen |
| 15 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Nebraska man was indicted for an alleged cryptojacking scheme defrauding cloud providers of $3.5 million in computing resources. | Criminal charge | $3.5m alleged fraud |
| 12 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A former security engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two decentralized crypto exchanges and stealing over $12 million. | Sentence | $12.0m stolen |
| 11 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Jacksonville, Florida woman pleaded guilty to laundering drug trafficking proceeds through cryptocurrency to buy drugs on the dark web. | Guilty plea | — |
| 03 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A former OneCoin head of legal and compliance was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to forfeit $111.44 million. | Sentence | $111.4m forfeiture |
| 02 Apr 2024 | SEC | Court enters default final judgment ordering GA Investors, operator of fraudulent crypto investment websites, to pay over $1.1 million. | Civil action | $1.1m penalty |
| 02 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Miami crypto exchanger was sentenced to 57 months for running an unlicensed money transmitting business that converted drug proceeds. | Sentence | $5.0m forfeiture |
| 29 Mar 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained a consented final judgment against an ICO promoter, FLiK and CoinSpark over fraudulent initial coin offerings. | Settlement | $2.8m penalty |
| 28 Mar 2024 | DOJ | FTX founder sentenced to 25 years in prison and over $11 billion forfeiture for defrauding customers, investors and lenders. | Sentence | $11.00bn forfeiture |
| 26 Mar 2024 | CFTC | CFTC filed a civil action charging KuCoin operators with running an unregistered crypto derivatives exchange and lacking KYC. | Civil action | — |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | KuCoin and two of its founders were criminally charged with Bank Secrecy Act and unlicensed money transmission offenses. | Criminal charge | $5.00bn laundering |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A San Francisco man pleaded guilty to laundering dark web drug sale proceeds through cryptocurrency and importing MDMA. | Guilty plea | — |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A former New Jersey corrections officer pleaded guilty to securities fraud, including a sham crypto token marketed to first responders. | Guilty plea | $620,000 alleged fraud |
| 19 Mar 2024 | SEC | Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21 million penalty to settle SEC charges over unregistered sales via the Gemini Earn crypto lending program. | Settlement | $21.0m penalty |
| 15 Mar 2024 | CFTC | Court consent order requires Empires Consulting (EmpiresX) to pay over $64 million in restitution and penalties for commodity pool fraud. | Settlement | $64.4m penalty |
| 15 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Queens man was sentenced to 16 months in prison for laundering Bitcoin he believed was drug proceeds and running an unlicensed money business. | Sentence | $133,000 laundering |
| 15 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A jury convicted two men of wire fraud conspiracy for their roles in the IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. | Conviction | — |
| 14 Mar 2024 | SEC | SEC sued 17 individuals over their alleged roles in a $300 million CryptoFX crypto Ponzi scheme targeting Latino investors. | Civil action | $300.0m alleged fraud |
| 14 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A former Loomis, California man was indicted on charges of laundering Silk Road drug proceeds received in Bitcoin. | Criminal charge | — |
| 13 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A California cryptocurrency exchanger pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agreed to forfeit $1.3M. | Guilty plea | $1.3m forfeiture |
| 13 Mar 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action for about $2.3 million in crypto seized from Binance accounts tied to a pig butchering scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.3m forfeiture |
| 12 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Russian-Swedish man was convicted by a jury of running the Bitcoin Fog darknet mixer, which laundered about $400 million in bitcoin. | Conviction | $400.0m laundering |
| 11 Mar 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained a default judgment against a friend of a former Coinbase manager for insider trading ahead of crypto listing announcements. | Civil action | $1.6m penalty |
| 08 Mar 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Chicago seized about $1.4 million in USDT from an unhosted wallet linked to an alleged tech support scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $1.4m forfeiture |
| 05 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Seattle semi-pro rugby player was indicted on wire fraud charges for an alleged Ponzi scheme posing as a crypto mining operation. | Criminal charge | — |
| 21 Feb 2024 | DOJ | Two men were charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy over an alleged NFT rug pull that drew over $300,000 in crypto. | Criminal charge | $300,000 alleged fraud |
| 14 Feb 2024 | SEC | SEC obtained a court order enforcing investigative subpoenas against two top promoters of the NovaTech crypto asset investment program. | Other action | — |
| 13 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Keene, New Hampshire man convicted of bitcoin money laundering was ordered to pay $3.5 million restitution to 29 victims and forfeit assets. | Other action | $3.5m restitution |
| 13 Feb 2024 | DOJ | The CEO of crypto futures exchange Digitex Futures was charged with causing it to violate the Bank Secrecy Act by lacking an AML program. | Criminal charge | — |
| 07 Feb 2024 | SEC | Court entered final judgments against two promoters of the CoinDeal blockchain investment scheme, ordering disgorgement and penalties. | Civil action | $3.0m alleged fraud |
| 07 Feb 2024 | SEC | TradeStation Crypto agreed to pay a $1.5 million SEC penalty to settle charges of offering an unregistered crypto lending product. | Settlement | $1.5m penalty |
| 07 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Texas man was indicted for allegedly filing false tax returns underreporting bitcoin gains and structuring cash deposits. | Criminal charge | $4.0m |
| 07 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Pennsylvania man was convicted by a jury of conspiring to manipulate the price of Hydrogen Technology's HYDRO token via spoof and wash trades. | Conviction | $300.0m alleged fraud |
| 02 Feb 2024 | SEC | SEC settled fraud charges with a crypto course founder and his firm over a never-launched hedge fund that took $1.2 million from students. | Settlement | $1.2m alleged fraud |
| 30 Jan 2024 | SEC | SEC sued the founder and a top promoter of the HyperFund crypto pyramid scheme that raised over $1.7 billion; the promoter agreed to settle. | Civil action | $1.70bn alleged fraud |
| 29 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Guam cryptocurrency broker was sentenced to 30 months for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business moving $5.5 million. | Sentence | $5.5m laundering |
| 29 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Three people charged, one pleading guilty, in an alleged $1.89 billion HyperFund crypto mining investment fraud scheme. | Criminal charge | $1.89bn alleged fraud |
| 26 Jan 2024 | DOJ | An Indian national pleaded guilty to running a dark web narcotics conspiracy paid in crypto, forfeiting about $150 million in cryptocurrency. | Guilty plea | $150.0m forfeiture |
| 25 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A former law firm partner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for laundering about $400 million in OneCoin fraud proceeds. | Sentence | $400.0m laundering |
| 23 Jan 2024 | SEC | Court ordered Crowd Machine and Metavine to disgorge over $19.6 million from a fraudulent unregistered crypto token offering and pay penalties. | Civil action | $19.7m forfeiture |
| 23 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Miami crypto exchanger pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business that exchanged over $5 million via LocalBitcoins. | Guilty plea | $5.0m laundering |
| 19 Jan 2024 | CFTC | CFTC filed a civil suit alleging Debiex used romance scam tactics to misappropriate $2.3 million from customers seeking crypto trading. | Civil action | $2.3m alleged fraud |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A German national and CEO of USI Tech is charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering over a crypto investment scheme. | Criminal charge | $150.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Former CEO of crypto Ponzi scheme IcomTech sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $914,000. | Sentence | $914,000 forfeiture |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Investment firm CEO sentenced to two years in prison for cherry-picking scheme with misrepresented crypto and FX futures strategies. | Sentence | $1.6m forfeiture |
| 18 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Sugar Land man was sentenced to 24 months for identity theft after stealing $520,000 and laundering it as Bitcoin via Bitstamp. | Sentence | $520,000 stolen |
| 11 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Sentence by the DOJ | Sentence | $5.0m penalty |
| 08 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Maryland father was sentenced to 19 months, joining his son's 54-month term, for laundering darknet drug trafficking Bitcoin proceeds. | Sentence | $65.0m forfeiture |
| 03 Jan 2024 | SEC | A California man consented to a final judgment and a $325,000 penalty for insider trading ahead of Long Blockchain's pivot announcement. | Settlement | $325,000 penalty |