Maximilien de Hoop Cartier was sentenced to eight years on April 28, 2026, for laundering $470M in Colombian cartel proceeds through USDT and shell companies. The U.S. government seized $2.36M, his commission. The remaining $467.64M is not in the forfeiture order.

Sze Man Yu Inos, known as "Yuki," was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison on April 23, 2026, for a Bitcoin investment fraud scheme that targeted older women across four US jurisdictions over 14 months.

On April 18, 2026, KelpDAO suffered what is now confirmed as the largest decentralized finance exploit of the year - a targeted attack on its LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge that drained approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at around $292 to $293 million at the time of the incident.

The Hyperbridge cross-chain gateway connecting Polkadot to Ethereum was exploited on April 13.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 181,565 complaints tied to cryptocurrency last year - a 21% increase over 2024 - and the losses those complaints represent have now crossed into territory that would have seemed implausible even five years ago.

Federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against ten foreign nationals accused of treating market fraud as a business model - and the scope of the operation makes clear this was no amateur scheme.

The U.S. government's patience with Chinese crypto hardware on American soil is running thin - and Bitmain Technologies is now squarely in the crosshairs.

India's largest crypto exchange is at the center of a legal storm. CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were apprehended by Thane Police in Bengaluru in March 2026 and remanded to custody until March 23.

The FBI's New York Field Office issued a high-priority warning on March 19, 2026, alerting cryptocurrency users to a coordinated phishing campaign exploiting the Tron (TRC-20) blockchain.

Venus Protocol, the largest decentralized money market on BNB Chain, was struck by a flash loan attack in January 2026, resulting in an estimated $3.7 million in losses.

Argentina's federal judiciary is pressing forward with a criminal investigation into President Javier Milei over his promotion of the $LIBRA cryptocurrency - a scandal that has evolved from a social media controversy into a full-blown constitutional crisis.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has officially walked away from one of the more contentious crypto fraud cases on its docket.