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- 03:20Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap today: MYX up 10.5%, SNX down 20.22%ChainCatcher News, according to Coinmarketcap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows: Top five gainers: MYX Finance (MYX) up 10.5%, current price $3.24; Bittensor (TAO) up 9%, current price $456.73; Zcash (ZEC) up 5.16%, current price $257.1; MemeCore (M) up 2.71%, current price $2.11; Curve DAO Token (CRV) up 2.18%, current price $0.5856. Top five losers: Synthetix (SNX) down 20.22%, current price $1.88; Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) down 11.73%, current price $0.3286; Mantle (MNT) down 7.44%, current price $1.9; Worldcoin (WLD) down 6.17%, current price $0.948; BNB (BNB) down 5.88%, current price $1,203.48.
- 03:19127,000 bitcoins from "Prince Group" are currently under custody by the US government.According to Jinse Finance, a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice states that the DOJ has launched the largest forfeiture action in history against the Cambodia-based transnational fraud syndicate "Prince Group." The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and the DOJ's National Security Division today filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit for approximately 127,271 bitcoins (about $15 billion) linked to the "Prince Group." These bitcoins are proceeds and instruments of fraud and money laundering by the defendants, previously stored in non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets with private keys held by the defendants. Currently, these funds (i.e., 127,000 bitcoins) are under the custody of the U.S. government. The DOJ also stated that Prince Group Chairman Chen Zhi is currently at large.
- 03:19The United States indicts Chen Zhi, the leader of Asia's largest transnational criminal organization, for involvement in multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency fraud.Foresight News reported that, according to the official website of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Treasury, together with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), have launched the largest operation in history against Southeast Asian online scam syndicates, sanctioning Cambodia's Prince Group TCO (Chen Zhi) and cutting off Huione Group from the U.S. financial system. FinCEN issued a final rule under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, identifying that Huione laundered approximately $4 billions from August 2021 to January 2025, including about $37 millions in DPRK-related virtual currency and about $36 millions in investment scams. The U.S. has also indicted Chen Zhi, frozen the assets of involved entities (including Prince Holding Group, Prince Bank, and Jin Bei Group) in the U.S., and prohibited related transactions.