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ForkLog 38 19.04.2025

BestChange Faces Another Block in Russia

On the evening of April 18, Roskomnadzor once again blocked the domains of the cryptocurrency exchange aggregator BestChange within Russia. The service team announced this on their Telegram channel. The block affected BestChange.ru, BestChange.com, and BestChange.net. Monitoring continues to operate. Project representatives did not find their sites’ URLs and corresponding IPs in the official Roskomnadzor […]

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ForkLog 65 17.04.2025

Tether Freezes Three Suspicious Addresses Holding 870,000 USDT

Tether has frozen 870,000 USDT across three cryptocurrency wallets, according to experts from the MistTrack service. ?MistTrack Alert:@Tether_to has just frozen a total of approximately 870k $USDT across 3 addresses: Frozen Address1️⃣:TGi8tjX3zh3hMVrnpyySwC41qz1L9HZDfU — Associated addresses has interacted with #WhiteBIT and #OKX. Frozen Address2️⃣:… pic.twitter.com/48c4sY30hS — MistTrack?️ (@MistTrack_io) April 17, 2025 According to MistTrack, the first […]

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ForkLog 23 17.04.2025

Russia Considers Developing Its Own Stablecoins, Reports Reuters

Russia should develop its own stablecoins linked to various currencies, according to Osman Kabaloev, Deputy Director of the Financial Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance, as reported by Reuters. His remarks come amid the blocking of Russian-linked stablecoins such as USDT. This refers to the freezing of assets on the Garantex exchange by Tether. […]

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ForkLog 72 07.04.2025

Who is behind BestChange? The developer on anonymity, government requests and top assets

For all of BestChange’s 18-year history, the creator of the crypto-exchanger monitor stayed out of the limelight. This is the first public interview with Denis Malkov. In a conversation with ForkLog, the developer spoke about a cyberattack on his first exchange and competition with other aggregators. We asked which coins are most popular with BestChange […]

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ForkLog 32 26.03.2025

Google Play Blocks 17 Cryptocurrency Exchange Apps in South Korea

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) reported the blocking of 17 foreign cryptocurrency exchanges on Google Play. Authorities expect this measure to prevent money laundering and potential harm to local users. The FIU confirmed that the requirement is linked to the “Act on Specific Financial Information.” Under this law, […]

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ForkLog 181 26.03.2025

Bybit Denies Deposit Restrictions from Trust Wallet

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has denied rumours of issues with deposits from the non-custodial Trust Wallet. According to Bybit, standard deposit operations are fully available and proceed as usual. “Bybit continues to fully support deposits from Trust Wallet without any restrictions.” The exchange team noted that if potential risks or violations are detected, additional checks may […]

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ForkLog 36 25.03.2025

Binance Acts Against Market Maker for MOVE Token Manipulation

The Binance exchange terminated its relationship with an unidentified market maker servicing the MOVE token after detecting price manipulation of the project. According to the statement, the participant sold 66 million coins shortly after their listing, earning a profit of 38 million USDT. The exchange froze these funds and passed the information to the Movement […]

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ForkLog 123 18.03.2025

Wallet explains its approach to freezing user wallets

Several Russian activists reported that their cryptocurrency wallets in Telegram’s integrated Wallet service were frozen, resulting in losses. The bot’s team outlined the grounds for such restrictions. What happened? Daniil Chebykin, co-founder of the Omsk Civic Association, said that in early February Wallet froze his cryptocurrency soon after the activist was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s list […]

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ForkLog 25 10.03.2025

Binance Halts Market Maker for GPS and SHELL Tokens

On March 9, the Binance exchange blocked a market maker servicing the GoPlus Security (GPS) and MyShell (SHELL) projects after identifying violations in its operations. The actions were taken due to order or liquidity manipulation. To protect user interests, the platform banned the market maker from operating on the exchange and confiscated its funds, which […]

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ForkLog 16 07.03.2025

US Justice Department Reports on Garantex Domain Seizure

The US Department of Justice confirmed the seizure of Garantex domains and the freezing of $26 million in the cryptocurrency exchange’s wallets. According to the press release, the trading platform facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations, including terrorist groups, and violated international sanctions. Since 2019, the exchange’s digital asset turnover has amounted to at […]

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ForkLog 21 07.03.2025

Expert Analyzes Impact of Garantex Wallet Blockade

The situation surrounding the blockade of wallets of the Russian exchange Garantex by Tether is multifaceted, involving international sanctions and anti-money laundering efforts. This was explained to ForkLog by Fyodor Ivanov, Director of Analytics at Shard. Ivanov noted that American regulators accused Garantex of laundering money for the darknet marketplace Hydra and hacker groups back […]

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ForkLog 26 20.02.2025

BestChange Restored in Russia

The cryptocurrency exchange aggregator BestChange.ru is once again accessible in Russia, as announced by the service team. The resource has been removed from the list of banned sites on the Roskomnadzor portal. The aggregator’s lawyers handled the unblocking process. Previously, representatives of the service informed ForkLog about a large-scale smear campaign against the BestChange brand […]

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