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According to Reuters, Mexican authorities discovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation in a remote mountainous building in Tehuacán, Puebla, where 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage terminals, and 8 satellite antennas were found on-site. Authorities are investigating whether the operation is stealing electricity from a nearby hydroelectric power station.This is the fourth similar crypto farm discovered in the area since early last year, with three others found near a hydroelectric power station in northern Puebla last year. Local residents reported that the noise from the equipment can be heard from a kilometer away. Mexican security analyst David Saucedo stated that drug trafficking groups seem to have reached a new level of sophistication, as establishing such operations requires technical expertise and support from well-funded groups.Chainalysis Latin America expert Caio Motta pointed out that such operations are usually located in areas with extremely low electricity prices or within the reach of organized crime to steal electricity and establish large-scale mining infrastructure.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) in Canada stated on Thursday that tokenized deposits are legally indistinguishable from traditional deposits, and noted that the underlying technology used in financial products or services does not determine their legal nature.OSFI indicated that financial institutions can conduct tokenized deposit business under existing financial regulatory laws without the need to establish additional regulatory provisions. Financial institutions and third parties acting on their behalf must ensure that their operations comply with applicable laws and regulations. OSFI requires financial institutions to communicate in advance with the OSFI supervisor responsible for regulation before launching new products or services, and recommends seeking legal advice prior to going live. The agency oversees nearly 350 financial institutions and 1,200 pension plans.

According to a statement released by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) in Canada, OSFI clarifies its technology-neutral stance, stating that tokenized and other digital deposits are legally indistinguishable from traditional deposits, and the underlying technology of financial products or services does not determine their legal nature.OSFI requires financial institutions to ensure that innovative activities (including activities carried out by third parties on their behalf) comply with relevant laws and regulations, and must adhere to guidelines such as B-13 Technology and Cyber Risk Management and B-10 Third Party Risk Management. Financial institutions must communicate with OSFI supervisors in advance before launching any new products or services and seek legal advice when necessary.

According to CoinDesk, the SEC's proposed new regulatory plan may address the legal and compliance pain points in the holding and trading process of tokenized securities markets by offering compliance exemptions or regulatory sandbox mechanisms.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis stated that the recent lawsuit against Tether for freezing $42.4 million in USDT highlights the regulatory gaps in the current crackdown on illegal financial activities in the cryptocurrency industry. She pointed out that stablecoin issuers and trading platforms may face civil litigation risks if they freeze related assets due to suspicions of illegal activities.Lummis indicated that Section 305 of the "Digital Asset Market Structure Clear Act" would grant stablecoin issuers and trading platforms the necessary authority to promptly freeze stablecoins suspected of being involved in illegal activities while avoiding civil liability as a result.She believes that this provision can help the cryptocurrency industry more effectively prevent the flow of illegal funds and address the legal risks faced by issuers and trading platforms when taking compliance measures.

The cryptocurrency risk data analysis company Bitrace released the "2026 Annual Cryptocurrency Crime Report," which shows that in 2025, the illegal funds received by blockchain addresses marked as high risk across the network reached $50.21 billion. Organized crime networks in Southeast Asia were severely impacted, as the United States and the United Kingdom jointly sanctioned the Cambodian Prince Group, seizing or freezing billions of dollars in cryptocurrency assets, and Huibang Group was forced to temporarily halt its Huibang Payment operations.The report states that in 2025, high-risk addresses for online gambling received $14.53 billion, down from $21.78 billion in 2024; it is predicted that platform funds transferred or bet will reach $6.64 billion. High-risk addresses for money laundering received a total of $6.98 billion, with USDT-related money laundering amounting to $5.7 billion on Ethereum and $60.2 billion on Tron. High-risk addresses for black and gray market transactions received $186.9 billion, almost all occurring on the Tron network, with Huibang Payment receiving $52.4 billion in USDT that year.In 2025, the number of addresses frozen reached 4,059, exceeding the total of 3,199 from the past four years, with 3,406 on Tron. Tether froze over $1.1 billion in USDT, and Circle froze over $23 million in USDC. From 2021 to 2025, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Israel, and France collectively imposed sanctions on at least 1,683 blockchain addresses.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $244,000 in "Sporting CP vs. Galatasaray SK" event, specifically targeting "Sporting CP". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 61%.

According to The Block, the Ink Foundation, an Ethereum L2 network under Kraken, has jointly established the Charter Foundation with crypto market maker GSR, law firms Carey Olsen, Renno & Co, Cooley, Fenwick, and auditing firms ChainSecurity, Zellic, among others. The aim is to provide a standardized shared legal framework for crypto projects to reduce token issuance costs. A spokesperson for the Ink Foundation stated that the organization is unrelated to Kraken.Currently, crypto projects typically need to independently establish a "three-entity structure" that includes a research and development entity (Labs), a Cayman Islands foundation, and a British Virgin Islands (BVI) subsidiary for issuance. The setup and independent director fees before the Token Generation Event (TGE) often exceed $100,000.The Charter Foundation aims to reduce the initial legal framework costs for token issuance by more than half by establishing a dedicated Cayman Islands exempt company as the launch structure for each project, with governance involving professional offshore compliance experts. Once the token is successfully issued, the Cayman entity will convert into an independent foundation and separate from Charter, ensuring the project's long-term independence.

According to Decrypt, the Mexican federal prosecutor, in conjunction with the Navy and Puebla state police, conducted a raid on a property in the remote mountainous area of Tlaola, Puebla, seizing approximately 300 cryptocurrency mining machines, as well as transformers, medium-voltage terminals, and satellite internet antennas.The investigation revealed that the mining operation illegally tapped into the grid of the Nuevo Necaxa hydroelectric power station, and authorities have filed charges for "theft of electricity." Currently, forensic accountants are tracing the source of the hardware funding, and money laundering suspicions have not been ruled out. Data from the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission shows that from January to July 2024, non-technical electricity losses reached up to 6,346 gigawatt-hours, valued at approximately 13.8 billion pesos (about 817 million USD).

The National Security Agency, FBI, and CISA of the United States released a joint report, naming DeepSeek, Dark Side of the Moon, Alibaba, MiniMax, Leap Star, and Zhipu. The U.S. side accuses the aforementioned companies of batch calling the outputs of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to train their own models since at least the end of 2024, involving millions of requests and billions of tokens.The report lists specific models, with DeepSeek accused of using multiple versions of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to generate training data for R1 and V3; Dark Side of the Moon is accused of using Claude Fable 5 data to train Kimi K3 and GPT-4o data to train Kimi K2. The U.S. claims these companies also bypass regional restrictions through numerous accounts, third-party API aggregators, and gray intermediaries, and attempt to extract the hidden reasoning processes of the models using prompts, labeling such behavior as malicious distillation.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Galaxy Digital transferred 95,270 HYPE to Bybit and OKX in the past four hours, worth approximately 8.11 million USD, indicating a possible intention to sell.Among them, 36,420 HYPE was transferred to Bybit, worth about 3.1 million USD; 58,850 HYPE was transferred to OKX, worth about 5.01 million USD.

According to Bloomberg, Belgian prosecutors stated on September 7 that a Chinese man, who also holds Belgian nationality, was arrested on May 10 at Brussels Airport while attempting to board a flight back to Beijing on suspicion of engaging in espionage activities against a Belgian semiconductor company. The investigation may point to the illegal transfer of specialized intellectual property and trade secrets related to gallium nitride chip production abroad.The investigation is related to the bankruptcy case of Belgan BV, which announced its bankruptcy in July 2024. Prosecutors indicated that there are signs suggesting that the man held a senior research position at the Belgian company while also serving as a director of a Chinese company engaged in similar manufacturing activities. This Chinese company was established a few months after he joined the Belgian company and was funded by a Chinese investment fund. This is the latest in a series of suspected espionage cases in Belgium.

A British man named Chris has recovered 61 bitcoins, currently worth about 4.4 million dollars, after a 12-year legal dispute following the closure of the UK cryptocurrency exchange Intersango in 2014. Chris purchased the bitcoins in 2011 and subsequently left the assets in the exchange's custody, without transferring them to a self-custody wallet.Intersango, formerly known as Britcoin, was one of the first exchanges in the UK to offer bitcoin trading in pounds. Ryan Sweetnam, the financial litigation director at CEL Solicitors, assisted in recovering the assets. The law firm took 4 months to submit the necessary documents to a US court, ultimately completing the return through negotiation. Chris stated that he now opens the wallet where the bitcoins are stored about 20 times a day.

Galaxy Research posted on X that yesterday the daily transaction count for Bitcoin reached 893,391, marking the fourth highest single-day transaction count in Bitcoin's history, and this figure is above the 99th percentile of its historical range.

Galaxy Research published that the attackers in the Coldcard "Wave 3" attack are still continuously transferring the stolen funds. During this phase, the attackers created 293 2-of-2 multi-signature wallets for each victim's assets. The first batch of funds was transferred across chains to Ethereum via THORChain; the latest round of transfers has begun entering the CoinJoin mixing process.Currently, the Wave 3 attackers are processing the largest amounts of stolen funds in order of the stolen amount, having sequentially transferred the funds from wallets ranked 1 to 11. The next 10 wallets that have not yet been transferred hold a total of 30.81 BTC, while wallets ranked 61 to 293 hold a total of 33.77 BTC. So far, the attackers have transferred about 45% of the stolen assets from this exploit, with funds flowing to Ethereum (via THORChain) or entering CoinJoin mixing transactions. Additionally, this fund transfer has revealed a previously unknown wallet: 58 addresses jointly spent in a 2-of-2 multi-signature format identical to that of Wave 3, and these were further transferred by the Wave 3 attackers to a jump address that funds CoinJoin.The on-chain analysis team currently marks this wallet as "cause = open," but believes it likely also belongs to Coldcard victims, which means the number of wallets involved in Wave 3 may increase to 294, raising the previously reported total amount stolen from the Coldcard vulnerability to approximately 1806 BTC. Currently, about 82% of the stolen BTC remains in addresses initially controlled by the attackers, while about 18% has been transferred, with the flow of funds indicating that it may be undergoing laundering processes.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute (0xecb...2b00) holds a short position of 99.82 million dollars and a long position of 5.12 million dollars on Hyperliquid; Galaxy Digital (0xcac...26b3) holds a short position of 26.41 million dollars and a long position of 6.21 million dollars.The two combined hold a total of 126.23 million dollars in short positions and 11.33 million dollars in long positions. In the past 30 days, Wintermute has lost 15.3 million dollars, and Galaxy Digital has lost 5.96 million dollars.

According to monitoring by Galaxy's research director, the COLDCARD Wave 3 attackers have transferred stolen funds for the first time and exchanged them for ETH through the THORChain cross-chain DEX. This is the first on-chain transfer of funds from the original hacker address in Waves 1, 2, or 3.

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According to Cointelegraph, Russia's legal framework for cryptocurrency trading, custody, and cross-border settlements officially came into effect today.