https://newsroom.wyde.org/ Data-driven coverage of nonprofits, crypto philanthropy, impact investing, and the WYDE ecosystem. en-us Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:07:17 GMT https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/arizona-ceo-axim-guilty-8-8-million-erisa-benefit-plan-embezzlement https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/arizona-ceo-axim-guilty-8-8-million-erisa-benefit-plan-embezzlement Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:10:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty James Campbell, CEO of Axim Fringe Solutions, pleaded guilty to embezzling $8.8 million in employee health and 401(k) contributions and spending it on big-game hunts, jewelry, and gambling. healthcare legal government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ken-griffin-carnegie-mellon-3-billion-record-university-gift-miami https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ken-griffin-carnegie-mellon-3-billion-record-university-gift-miami Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:08:52 GMT Aaron Rafferty Citadel founder Ken Griffin's $3 billion Carnegie Mellon donation, the largest higher education gift in US history, funds a new Miami campus and computer science in Pittsburgh. philanthropy technology innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/kalshi-ends-volume-incentive-program-wash-trading-cftc-scrutiny https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/kalshi-ends-volume-incentive-program-wash-trading-cftc-scrutiny Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:14:09 GMT Aaron Rafferty Kalshi will close its Volume Incentive Program on October 13, 2026, nearly a year early, after an analyst flagged more than $5 billion in repetitive ether trades and the Wall Street Journal reported the CFTC is weighing a wash trading investigation. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-devday-2026-managed-agents-shutdown-controls-unbuilt https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-devday-2026-managed-agents-shutdown-controls-unbuilt Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:08:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty At DevDay 2026 OpenAI launched a Managed Agents platform and more than 20 products, while the automated AI shutdown controls it told House Democrats it was building have not shipped. ai technology government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/house-oversight-comer-prediction-market-probe-crypto-com-hyperliquid-predictit https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/house-oversight-comer-prediction-market-probe-crypto-com-hyperliquid-predictit Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:08:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty House Oversight Chairman James Comer sent records requests to Crypto.com, Hyperliquid, and PredictIt over identity verification and suspicious prediction market trading on nonpublic information. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/goldman-sachs-100-billion-treasury-fund-crypto-lynq-settlement https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/goldman-sachs-100-billion-treasury-fund-crypto-lynq-settlement Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:07:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Goldman made its roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund available to crypto trading firms over the Lynq settlement network on September 28, 2026, without tokenizing it, letting firms park idle cash and earn yield between trades. technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/morgan-stanley-digital-asset-lab-stablecoins-tokenization-defi-vaults https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/morgan-stanley-digital-asset-lab-stablecoins-tokenization-defi-vaults Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:13:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Morgan Stanley's new Digital Asset Lab will test stablecoins, tokenization, tokenized deposits and DeFi vaults in a segregated environment before the Wall Street bank scales them. innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-cancels-gpt-6-1-astra-safety-deception-unauthorized-actions https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-cancels-gpt-6-1-astra-safety-deception-unauthorized-actions Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:13:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra over AI safety and alignment failures, including deception, unauthorized tool use, and simulated supply-chain attacks ai government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/shinyhunters-arrest-pepijn-van-der-stap-fbi-jobs-portal-breach https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/shinyhunters-arrest-pepijn-van-der-stap-fbi-jobs-portal-breach Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:12:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Dutch authorities detained 24-year-old Pepijn van der Stap, a suspected ShinyHunters hacker linked to data-extortion breaches and a $100 million campaign legal government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ortet-ai-health-lab-500-million-thoreau-kyunghyun-cho-genentech https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ortet-ai-health-lab-500-million-thoreau-kyunghyun-cho-genentech Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:12:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Kyunghyun Cho and former Genentech researchers launched Ortet, a frontier AI lab for health, with a $500 million commitment from Thoreau healthcare ai https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/senate-report-tether-usdt-iran-shadow-banking-lifeline-blumenthal https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/senate-report-tether-usdt-iran-shadow-banking-lifeline-blumenthal Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:30:48 GMT Aaron Rafferty Senate investigators found Iran moved an estimated $2 billion through Tether's USDT stablecoin, calling it a financial lifeline for the regime's shadow banking network and sanctions evasion. global affairs government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/coinbase-cftc-clearinghouse-dco-approval-derivatives-stack https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/coinbase-cftc-clearinghouse-dco-approval-derivatives-stack Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:12:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing as a derivatives clearing organization on September 28, 2026, letting the exchange clear its own fully collateralized futures, options, and swaps on a USDC-native clearinghouse. legal innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/citi-coinbase-stablecoin-payments-businesses-fiat-settlement https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/citi-coinbase-stablecoin-payments-businesses-fiat-settlement Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:15:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Citi and Coinbase expanded their partnership so corporate and institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments with automatic fiat settlement through Coinbase Virtual Accounts and Spring by Citi. innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-pauses-model-training-ai-agents-government-websites https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/openai-pauses-model-training-ai-agents-government-websites Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:15:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty OpenAI halted frontier model training after autonomous AI agents accessed SEC, Department of Education and Census Bureau websites during testing, with officials reporting no nonpublic data was exposed. ai technology government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/tether-freeze-550-million-iran-linked-usdt-2026-ofac https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/tether-freeze-550-million-iran-linked-usdt-2026-ofac Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:27:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The stablecoin issuer said on September 28 that it worked with US authorities including OFAC to freeze about $550 million in Iran-linked USDT in 2026, part of more than $4.9 billion frozen worldwide. global affairs government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/kevin-curry-tricare-26-million-fraud-conviction-tms-therapy https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/kevin-curry-tricare-26-million-fraud-conviction-tms-therapy Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:20:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty A federal jury convicted Frisco businessman Kevin Curry of billing the military's TRICARE health program $26 million for brain-stimulation therapy that was medically unnecessary or never provided, a scheme that paid out roughly $17 million and funded luxury purchases. healthcare legal government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/doj-seizes-84-million-capstone-tether-bitfinex-payments-firm https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/doj-seizes-84-million-capstone-tether-bitfinex-payments-firm Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:20:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Federal prosecutors in California moved to seize $84 million from Capstone, a payments company they say ran as an unlicensed money transmitter and helped scammers turn stolen cash into stablecoins, with the complaint noting the firm processed payments tied to Tether and Bitfinex. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/circle-foundation-undp-wfp-stablecoin-humanitarian-aid-payments https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/circle-foundation-undp-wfp-stablecoin-humanitarian-aid-payments Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:19:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Circle Foundation is funding the UN Development Programme and the World Food Programme to move humanitarian aid onto regulated stablecoins, cutting the cost and delay of getting money to people in Syria, Haiti, Guatemala, and The Gambia. philanthropy global affairs crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/california-ab-2409-memecoin-ban-public-officials-newsom-trump https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/california-ab-2409-memecoin-ban-public-officials-newsom-trump Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:14:54 GMT Aaron Rafferty Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409, barring California public officials from issuing memecoins and blocking exchanges from listing official-linked memecoins, in a law his office aimed at President Trump's crypto earnings. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sixth-circuit-kalshi-sports-contracts-not-swaps-states-regulate https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sixth-circuit-kalshi-sports-contracts-not-swaps-states-regulate Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:19:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Sixth Circuit held Kalshi's sports event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, letting Ohio and Tennessee enforce gambling laws and deepening a circuit split headed toward the Supreme Court. legal government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/bitcoin-etf-2-4-billion-weekly-inflow-positive-2026 https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/bitcoin-etf-2-4-billion-weekly-inflow-positive-2026 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:19:28 GMT Aaron Rafferty US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $2.4 billion in a week, the largest since October, pushing year-to-date flows positive as BlackRock IBIT and Fidelity FBTC lead. innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/crypto-washington-exits-mersinger-blockchain-association-peirce-sec https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/crypto-washington-exits-mersinger-blockchain-association-peirce-sec Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:27:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger steps down and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce departs within weeks of the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, thinning crypto's regulatory bench in Washington. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/wyde-weekly-2026-09-26 https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/wyde-weekly-2026-09-26 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:40:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty WYDE Weekly: the SNAP cost shift hits states October 1, Fast Lab's $500 million COVID fraud plea, Bitget's $387.5 million hack, the Fed's first stablecoin rules, and Phil and Penny Knight's $1 billion gift to Oregon. wyde weekly newsletter https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sec-corporation-finance-crypto-faqs-buybacks-liquid-staking-not-securities https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sec-corporation-finance-crypto-faqs-buybacks-liquid-staking-not-securities Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:52:16 GMT Aaron Rafferty The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance released crypto asset FAQs on September 25, 2026, saying token buybacks and post-launch staking do not count as the managerial efforts that turn a functional network token into a security under the Howey test. legal innovation government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/eat-app-get-paid-food-challenges-creators-clippers-restaurants https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/eat-app-get-paid-food-challenges-creators-clippers-restaurants Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:48:07 GMT Aaron Rafferty A restaurant posts a paid challenge, a local creator films it, a clipper makes it travel, and part of it feeds people nearby. EAT pays creators, clippers and college students to make food content for restaurants. Early access is open at eat.ong. food policy creator economy wyde ecosystem innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/vietnamese-national-charged-16-million-crypto-pig-butchering-scam https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/vietnamese-national-charged-16-million-crypto-pig-butchering-scam Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:46:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Trung Nguyen Van faces money laundering charges in the Western District of Missouri after prosecutors say his crypto wallets received more than $53 million from pig butchering investment scams targeting Americans. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/fast-lab-coo-guilty-500-million-covid-test-billing-fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/fast-lab-coo-guilty-500-million-covid-test-billing-fraud Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:45:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Hasan Seyhun admitted conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud after Fast Lab Technologies billed insurers more than $500 million for COVID-19 tests it never performed and took in at least $35 million. healthcare legal government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/federal-reserve-stablecoin-rules-genius-act-reserve-capital-proposal https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/federal-reserve-stablecoin-rules-genius-act-reserve-capital-proposal Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:53:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Fed opened public comment on two proposals setting reserve, capital, and risk-management standards for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act before the January 2027 deadline. legal government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/bitget-387-million-hot-wallet-hack-user-protection-fund-north-korea https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/bitget-387-million-hot-wallet-hack-user-protection-fund-north-korea Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:53:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Attackers spoofed Bitget's backend to drain $387.5 million from hot and warm wallets across five blockchains, and CEO Gracy Chen says a $464 million protection fund will cover users as North Korea is suspected. global affairs government & fraud crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/aave-v4-equities-hub-base-tokenized-stocks-collateral-usdc https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/aave-v4-equities-hub-base-tokenized-stocks-collateral-usdc Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:52:49 GMT Aaron Rafferty Aave V4's new Equities Hub on Base lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase-issued tokenized shares of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and four other stocks priced by Chainlink. technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/uk-banks-first-interbank-tokenized-deposit-payments https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/uk-banks-first-interbank-tokenized-deposit-payments Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:10:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander, Nationwide, and Monzo moved tokenized pound deposits between institutions in the first live interbank tokenized deposit transactions, run on the Great British Tokenized Deposit pilot using Quant technology. global affairs technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ark-invest-securitize-tokenized-venture-fund-arkvx-openai-anthropic https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ark-invest-securitize-tokenized-venture-fund-arkvx-openai-anthropic Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:10:39 GMT Aaron Rafferty ARK Invest and Securitize tokenized the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum, giving eligible investors onchain access to a portfolio that holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. ai technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/moonpay-acquires-north-capital-60-million-tokenized-securities https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/moonpay-acquires-north-capital-60-million-tokenized-securities Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:03:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty MoonPay will acquire North Capital, a Utah broker-dealer with SEC broker, ATS, transfer-agent, and investment-adviser licenses and about $9 billion in transaction volume, in an all-stock deal to move into tokenized securities and onchain capital markets. innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/snap-administrative-cost-shift-october-1-2026-states-75-percent https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/snap-administrative-cost-shift-october-1-2026-states-75-percent Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:03:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Starting October 1, the 2025 reconciliation law drops the federal share of SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 25%, a roughly $17 billion cost shift to states over five years, as food banks brace and Congress has not passed a delay. food policy government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/un-security-council-ai-briefing-altman-amodei-bengio https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/un-security-council-ai-briefing-altman-amodei-bengio Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:40:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI. global affairs ai innovation government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/nyse-blockchain-com-tokenized-us-stocks-etfs https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/nyse-blockchain-com-tokenized-us-stocks-etfs Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:34:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty A memorandum of understanding would give Blockchain.com's more than 44 million users access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs through the New York Stock Exchange's planned digital trading platform, pending regulatory approval. technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ai-drug-repurposing-joseph-coates-every-cure-fajgenbaum https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/ai-drug-repurposing-joseph-coates-every-cure-fajgenbaum Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:55:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty An AI model matched Joseph Coates with an untried drug combination for POEMS syndrome and he went into remission. The nonprofit behind it, Every Cure, now has up to $76 million from ARPA-H to test more matches. healthcare ai innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/claude-discovers-crispr-like-enzyme-system-anthropic-art https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/claude-discovers-crispr-like-enzyme-system-anthropic-art Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:56:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Anthropic's new life sciences lab says roughly 950 Claude agents, given one prompt, found array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART), an uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages with a CRISPR-like DNA repeat array. healthcare ai innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sofi-mastercard-sofiusd-stablecoin-settlement-25-billion-card-program https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/sofi-mastercard-sofiusd-stablecoin-settlement-25-billion-card-program Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:40:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty SoFiUSD, the first stablecoin issued by a nationally chartered US bank, now settles SoFi Bank's debit and credit card transactions on Mastercard's global payments network. technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/chainalysis-2026-geography-of-crypto-report-adoption-index-stablecoins https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/chainalysis-2026-geography-of-crypto-report-adoption-index-stablecoins Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:39:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Chainalysis 2026 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report puts Brazil first on its global crypto adoption index, with cross-border stablecoin flows up 77.5% to $220.3 billion. global affairs innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/praxis-uruguay-city-colonia-1-billion-residents-2027 https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/praxis-uruguay-city-colonia-1-billion-residents-2027 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:13:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Praxis will build its first city-scale development at +Colonia in Uruguay, planning $1 billion over three years and a model where a share of home sales funds artists and cultural institutions. global affairs ai innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/canada-big-six-banks-tokenized-deposits-cad https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/canada-big-six-banks-tokenized-deposits-cad Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:39:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD are jointly exploring a CAD tokenized deposit system for faster, programmable payments after Canada's bank regulator said tokenized deposits are still deposits. global affairs technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/horowitz-andreessen-academy-san-francisco-high-school-graduates https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/horowitz-andreessen-academy-san-francisco-high-school-graduates Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:13:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco will take about 50 recent high school graduates in a one-year, no-tuition program backed by $42 million and partners including OpenAI, Anthropic, Coinbase and Nvidia. ai technology innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/senate-banking-democrats-prediction-markets-hearing-kalshi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/senate-banking-democrats-prediction-markets-hearing-kalshi Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:38:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Every Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee asked Chair Tim Scott for a public prediction markets hearing on September 23, the same day committee Republicans met privately with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour. legal innovation government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/coinbase-fixed-rate-bitcoin-backed-loans-morpho-midnight https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/coinbase-fixed-rate-bitcoin-backed-loans-morpho-midnight Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:13:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin with the rate and due date set upfront, adding fixed-rate onchain loans to a lending book with more than $1.4 billion outstanding. technology innovation crypto & defi https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/global-report-food-crises-2026-mid-year-update-famine-risk-aid-cuts https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/global-report-food-crises-2026-mid-year-update-famine-risk-aid-cuts Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:52:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Global Report on Food Crises 2026 mid-year update flags Risk of Famine in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan as food aid and humanitarian funding fall to decade lows. food policy global affairs government & fraud https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/clinton-global-initiative-2026-foreign-aid-cuts-philanthropy-bcrf-ventures https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/clinton-global-initiative-2026-foreign-aid-cuts-philanthropy-bcrf-ventures Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:38:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty At the 2026 Clinton Global Initiative, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation launched BCRF Ventures, a $100 million venture philanthropy fund, as foundation leaders pushed to give faster while governments cut foreign aid. philanthropy global affairs healthcare https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/phil-penny-knight-1-billion-university-of-oregon-engineering-college https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/phil-penny-knight-1-billion-university-of-oregon-engineering-college Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:14:03 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Nike co-founder's $1 billion gift, the largest ever to a comprehensive public university, will launch the Knight College of Engineering in Eugene, a week after the Knights pledged $1.1 billion to Providence. philanthropy innovation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/princess-margaret-cancer-foundation-100-million-anonymous-donation https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/princess-margaret-cancer-foundation-100-million-anonymous-donation Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:39:21 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation launched its $2.5 billion Carry The Fire campaign in Toronto with a record anonymous gift for cancer research, treatment and care. philanthropy global affairs https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/binance-iran-sanctions-probe-doj-manhattan-compliance https://newsroom.wyde.org/articles/binance-iran-sanctions-probe-doj-manhattan-compliance Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:20:00 GMT Aaron Rafferty The Manhattan US Attorney's Office and the DOJ Criminal Division are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed Iran-linked trades, nearly three years after the exchange's $4.316 billion guilty plea and compliance monitor. legal government & fraud crypto & defi