On February 24th, according to Theblock, non-KYC centralized exchange eXch denied the allegation that it laundered money on behalf of Lazarus Group in a post on the forum. "Holding the opposite opinion is just the opinion of some people who want the fungibility and on-chain privacy of decentralized currencies to disappear.... These people have long hated decentralized add...
On January 16, it was reported that Upbit, the largest cryptocurrency trading platform in South Korea, received a notice of business suspension from the financial regulator for violating the customer confirmation system (KYC) and failing to fulfill its anti-money laundering obligations. According to the news from the financial industry on the 16th, the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIU) of the Financial Commission issued a pre-notice to Upbit on the 9th of this month on the content of sa...
Sophon, a modular blockchain based on ZKsync, tweeted that the KYC Grace Period retroactive reward will end on January 14. If a user purchases a Sophon node but has not submitted a KYC or the KYC has not been approved, they need to submit it as soon as possible.
According to a recent report by TRM Labs, crypto ATMs are more vulnerable to fraud and money laundering due to weak KYC and AML protocols, having handled at least $160 million in illicit funds since 2019 to date. In 2023 alone, the proportion of illegal transactions at crypto ATMs reached 1.2% of their total transaction volume, while the proportion of illegal transactions in the entire crypto ecosystem was only 0.63%. The report also revealed that more than $30 million of illicit funds in 2023 w...