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Kraken spends $600 million to acquire a stablecoin card issuer. Hun To admits to owning 30% of Huione Pay but denies operational role. Asia Express.

Huione-linked wallets moved nearly $1 billion in USDT to CEXs since FinCEN imposed restrictions on US financial institutions interacting with the group. Major centralized exchanges (CEXs) have been exposed to nearly $1 billion in USDt transfers linked to wallets associated with Huione since its illicit marketplace was supposedly shut down, according to new data from Global Ledger. On May 1, the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) designated Huione as a primary money laundering concern under the PATRIOT Act. Since then, forensics experts have been divided on the extent of the platform’s shutdown. Global Ledger said it observed $10.13 billion in Tether USDt (USDT) transactions on Tron and $219 million on Ethereum in Huione-linked wallets between May 1 and June 17, in a research report shared exclusively with Cointelegraph. $942.9 million ultimately flowed into CEXs. Read more

Telegram-based dark markets rapidly filled the gap left by Huione Guarantee after the $27 billion marketplace disappeared on May 13, according to a June 23 Elliptic report. Elliptic noted that Telegram banned thousands of Huione Guarantee channels and usernames once researchers traced billions of USDT-denominated sales to pig-butchering scams. However, data shows that merchants immediately […] The post Dark market activity on Telegram persists despite $27B Huione ban – Elliptic appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Funnull's wallets show transactional links to Huione Pay, flagged by FinCEN as a major global money laundering concern.