Federal authorities charged two brothers from Jacksonville, Florida, Vladislav and Stanislav Chernyshov, with distributing counterfeit pills laced with potent nitazene opioids via darknet markets under the name "BarbaraWhite." Their operation is linked to at least 12 overdoses, including three deaths, and involved Bitcoin transactions traced to multiple darknet marketplaces. The counterfeit pills were falsely marketed as "fentanyl-free" but contained dangerous synthetic opioids. If convicted, the brothers face at least 20 years in prison. The investigation used blockchain analysis, postal records, and undercover operations to identify and connect the suspects to the drug distribution network.
Gratus Reserve V filed with the SEC to launch a $75 million fund that provides retail investors access to an institutional-level crypto strategy focused on XRP and ISO-20022-compliant assets. The fund highlights that buying XRP through institutional ...
Interactive Brokers reported a 77% pre-tax margin in Q2 2026, significantly outperforming its peers and demonstrating high operational efficiency. The company saw broad growth with net revenue up 28.1%, commission revenue up 30.4%, and net interest i...
Matter Labs has released the core software of Prividium’s permissioning engine as open-source, allowing institutions to run, inspect, and modify it within their own environments. Deutsche Bundesbank is the first institution publicly testing and deplo...
ARES stock has surged about 16.5% following strong double-digit growth in Fundraising and Revenue Equivalent (FRE) of around 20%, with assets under management (AUM) reaching $671 billion and fee-paying AUM (FPAUM) at $410 billion. The infrastructure ...
XRP price increased by 3.77% to $1.43, driven by $1.55 million inflows into XRP ETFs and a rise in whale trading activity, even as the US Senate's CLARITY Act bill faces low chances of passing in 2026. On-chain data shows the whale-retail transaction...
