| 30 Oct 2026 | SEC | SEC sued BG Wealth Sharing and DSJ Exchange over an alleged $130M crypto trading signals fraud that used false SEC filings. | Civil action | $130.0m alleged fraud |
| 29 Oct 2026 | SEC | SEC sues DEBT Box joint venture partners and principals over an alleged $200 million crypto offering fraud; some defendants settle. | Civil action | $200.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and false statements in a crypto investment scam that lost victims $1.16 million. | Guilty plea | $1.2m alleged fraud |
| 07 Oct 2026 | DOJ | The creator of the Kishu Inu digital asset was indicted for allegedly running a $9 million rug pull fraud scheme. | Criminal charge | $9.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 Sept 2026 | CFTC | Court enters default judgment ordering a Louisiana man and Arkansas woman to pay over $31 million for a Fundsz digital asset and metals fraud. | Civil action | — |
| 11 Sept 2026 | SEC | SEC sued a former Maryland resident over an alleged $1.5 million offering fraud; funds were allegedly used to buy cryptocurrency and lost. | Civil action | $1.5m alleged fraud |
| 24 Aug 2026 | DOJ | A San Francisco man was convicted by a jury of wire fraud for defrauding investors in the Block Bits Capital crypto trading fund. | Conviction | $1.0m alleged fraud |
| 04 Aug 2026 | SEC | SEC settles with a former New Jersey corrections officer over Blazar Token crypto offering and investment fraud schemes. | Settlement | $681,105 penalty |
| 21 Jul 2026 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency tied to investment and romance scams. | Seizure or forfeiture | $25.0m forfeiture |
| 20 Jul 2026 | SEC | SEC filed partially settled charges against a Florida man and Mining Automatic over a $22 million purported crypto mining investment scheme. | Settlement | $22.0m alleged fraud |
| 23 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A New York man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for impersonating crypto influencers in a fake crypto staking investment scam. | Sentence | $1.4m alleged fraud |
| 18 Jun 2026 | CFTC | A court entered a CFTC consent order permanently enjoining Celsius Network's founder and imposing trading and registration bans. | Settlement | $20.00bn alleged fraud |
| 18 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A jury convicted a former South Lake Tahoe man of crypto and investment fraud schemes that cost investors nearly $1 million. | Conviction | $1.0m alleged fraud |
| 17 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A Miami man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business tied to the $1.8 billion HyperFund crypto scheme. | Guilty plea | $1.80bn alleged fraud |
| 29 May 2026 | SEC | SEC sued a Texas resident alleging he raised about $12.3 million from investors in a fake AI crypto trading bot scheme. | Civil action | $12.3m alleged fraud |
| 28 Apr 2026 | SEC | SEC settled with RYVYL, Inc. and its two founders over allegedly false claims of blockchain-based payment technology in public filings. | Settlement | $230,464 penalty |
| 17 Apr 2026 | SEC | SEC sued a crypto token founder and two affiliated companies for allegedly defrauding investors in a $16 million SAFT offering. | Civil action | $16.0m alleged fraud |
| 16 Apr 2026 | DOJ | A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years in prison for a Meta-1 Coin crypto scam that cost nearly 1,000 investors over $20 million. | Sentence | $20.0m alleged fraud |
| 13 Apr 2026 | DOJ | DOJ opened a remission process to compensate OneCoin fraud victims from more than $40 million in forfeited assets. | Other action | $40.0m forfeiture |
| 10 Feb 2026 | DOJ | The CEO of SafeMoon US LLC was sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million for a crypto fraud scheme. | Sentence | $7.5m forfeiture |
| 16 Jan 2026 | CFTC | CFTC sues an Oklahoma man and Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC, alleging over $10 million fraud via an unregistered commodity pool. | Civil action | $10.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Dec 2025 | SEC | SEC filed proposed final consent judgments against two former FTX executives and a former Alameda executive with injunctions and officer bars. | Settlement | $1.80bn alleged fraud |
| 11 Dec 2025 | DOJ | Terraform Labs co-founder sentenced to 15 years for crypto fraud tied to the UST and LUNA collapse causing $40 billion in losses. | Sentence | $40.00bn alleged fraud |
| 03 Dec 2025 | SEC | SEC charged Shima Capital and its owner with misleading investors in raising $169.9 million for crypto funds; both consented to settlements. | Settlement | $169.9m alleged fraud |
| 20 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted a Texas man of mail fraud for a Meta-1 Coin crypto scheme that cost nearly 1,000 investors at least $14 million. | Conviction | $14.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A North Texas crypto mining company founder was convicted by a jury of wire fraud and conspiracy in a $4.5 million mining investment scheme. | Conviction | $4.5m alleged fraud |
| 30 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A New York man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for impersonating crypto influencers on Telegram in a fake crypto staking investment scam. | Guilty plea | $1.8m alleged fraud |
| 25 Sept 2025 | CFTC | A Tennessee couple agreed to a consent order to pay $5.5M restitution and a $1.36M penalty over the "Blessings Thru Crypto" commodity pool fraud. | Settlement | $5.5m restitution |
| 22 Sept 2025 | SEC | An Alabama investment adviser settled SEC charges that he defrauded at least 15 clients of over $430,000 through Infinity Wealth Management. | Settlement | $430,000 alleged fraud |
| 17 Sept 2025 | CFTC | Court orders Systematic Alpha Management and its owner to pay $2.8M via consent order for unfairly allocating crypto and FX futures trades. | Settlement | — |
| 15 Sept 2025 | CFTC | A court entered a consent order requiring a former Voyager Digital CEO to pay $750,000 in disgorgement to customers and accept a trading ban. | Settlement | $750,000 forfeiture |
| 29 Aug 2025 | DOJ | Former CEO and CFO of crypto lender Cred LLC were sentenced to 52 and 36 months in prison for wire fraud conspiracy. | Sentence | $140.0m alleged fraud |
| 29 Jul 2025 | DOJ | Founder and CEO of AML Bitcoin sentenced to 84 months in prison for a roughly $10 million crypto investment fraud and money laundering. | Sentence | $10.0m alleged fraud |
| 22 Jul 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Seattle filed a civil action to forfeit about $7.1 million in crypto tied to an oil storage investment fraud. | Seizure or forfeiture | $7.1m forfeiture |
| 08 Jul 2025 | DOJ | A founder and a promoter of OmegaPro were charged over an alleged $650M forex and crypto investment scheme paid in virtual currency. | Criminal charge | $650.0m alleged fraud |
| 11 Jun 2025 | CFTC | A federal court ordered a Michigan man, a California man, and two My Big Coin companies to pay over $25 million for digital asset fraud. | Civil action | $19.3m penalty |
| 27 May 2025 | SEC | SEC charged Unicoin and four executives with alleged fraud in an offering of crypto token rights certificates that raised over $100 million. | Civil action | $100.0m alleged fraud |
| 22 May 2025 | SEC | SEC sued a start-up CEO for allegedly misleading a venture firm into a $500,000 investment in a claimed blockchain payment platform. | Civil action | $500,000 alleged fraud |
| 21 May 2025 | DOJ | A jury convicted the CEO of SafeMoon LLC of securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy for diverting liquidity pool funds. | Conviction | $9.0m alleged fraud |
| 20 May 2025 | SEC | SEC sued Unicoin and three top executives, alleging false claims in crypto rights certificate offerings that raised over $100 million. | Civil action | $100.0m alleged fraud |
| 08 May 2025 | DOJ | Celsius Network founder and former CEO sentenced to 12 years in prison for commodities and securities fraud and CEL token manipulation. | Sentence | $48.4m forfeiture |
| 24 Apr 2025 | SEC | Nova Labs, creator of the Helium Network, consented to a final judgment and $200,000 penalty over misrepresentations to equity investors. | Settlement | $200,000 penalty |
| 23 Apr 2025 | DOJ | A Long Island man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a crypto investment and loan fraud scheme that cost victims over $12 million. | Sentence | $12.7m restitution |
| 28 Mar 2025 | SEC | SEC obtained a consent final judgment against a Latvian national over the fraudulent Denaro ICO and Innovamine crypto mining offerings. | Settlement | $412,201 penalty |
| 14 Mar 2025 | SEC | SEC filed settled fraud charges against a Massachusetts man who raised $1.7 million for Forex trading via crypto; he will pay about $400,000. | Settlement | $398,369 penalty |
| 14 Mar 2025 | DOJ | A Brooklyn podcaster and crypto event emcee was sentenced to 45 months for wire fraud over sham real estate and crypto investments. | Sentence | $1.3m forfeiture |
| 12 Mar 2025 | DOJ | A Texas cryptocurrency founder was convicted by a jury of wire fraud and money laundering over the marketing and sale of AML Bitcoin. | Conviction | $2.0m alleged fraud |
| 10 Feb 2025 | CFTC | A federal court entered a consent order requiring a Florida man to pay over $7.6 million in restitution for the My Big Coin digital asset fraud. | Settlement | $7.6m restitution |
| 10 Feb 2025 | CFTC | A federal court ordered a New York resident to pay over $1.5 million in restitution in a CFTC digital asset trading fraud case. | Civil action | $1.5m restitution |
| 17 Jan 2025 | SEC | Digital Currency Group and a former Genesis CEO agreed to pay $38.5 million combined to settle SEC charges of misleading investors. | Settlement | $38.5m penalty |
| 13 Jan 2025 | CFTC | A federal court entered default judgments ordering Mosaic Exchange Ltd. and its CEO to pay over $1.1 million for a fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme. | Civil action | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 25 Sept 2024 | SEC | TrueCoin and TrustToken settled SEC charges over unregistered, misleadingly marketed TUSD stablecoin investment offerings. | Settlement | $163,766 penalty |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Investment firm CEO sentenced to two years in prison for cherry-picking scheme with misrepresented crypto and FX futures strategies. | Sentence | $1.6m forfeiture |