Examining Tether’s Secret Loan Portfolio

Tether’s Secret Agent: The secretive Christopher Harborne has a mysterious past, vast wealth, and deep political connections. Is he also the brains behind the world’s largest stablecoin?

Binance Partner Advcash May Facilitate Transfers from Sanctioned Russian Banks: Belize-domiciled Advcash also provides services to Bybit, Kucoin, and other major crypto exchanges. What will investigators probing Binance think about this?

Schwab's Shrinking Spread: Charles Schwab built its business on low-interest deposits. Then deposits started bleeding as interest rates rose...

Cross River Crack-Up: A deteriorating business model, fraud, and banking crypto. What could possibly go wrong?

Taking Notes on a Criminal Conspiracy: The Feds have Binance's internal chats and CZ's phone. Is this the beginning of the end for crypto's biggest exchange?

Brother, can you spare a COIN?: We believe Coinbase is a cash-burning regulatory nightmare with limited upside. Here's why.

Why was Signature Bank shut down?: As conspiracy theories and accusations swirl, we take a closer look at the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history

Don't Forget to Feed the Ponzi: Sarson Funds claimed to bring Wall Street to crypto. Instead, they steered their investors' money into one scam after another.

Stablecoin Shadow Banks: Explaining the coming regulatory crackdown on stablecoins.

Crypto Bank Whack-A-Mole: One by one, regulators are severing the connections between crypto and the real economy.

The FTX-Belarus Connection: ZUBR.io (UPDATED): In 2021, FTX purchased an obscure Gibraltar-register derivatives exchange tied to binary options, a dodgy crypto exchange, and one of the richest men in Russia.

The Russian-Linked Payment Processors Feeding the Crypto-conomy: Binance, Huobi, Nexo, and other major cryptocurrency firms are partnered with a pair of Russian firms tied to a 2018 ICO scam

A Walled Garden Full of Snakes: The Signet Client List Revealed: We have obtained a November 2021 copy of Signature Bank's Signet clients. We have some questions.

Nexo is Rekto: Nexo headquarters in Bulgaria raided as part of a multinational investigation into money laundering, sanctions violations, and fraud. We warned you!

Signs of Trouble at Signature Bank: Banking crypto comes with risks. New revelations suggest legal and regulatory problems loom for $SBNY.

The Binance Scam Chain: Is the Binance Smart Chain the OneCoin scam with extra steps?

The Ballad of Risk-Free Avi: A crypto arbitrageur allegedly crosses the line between trading and fraud. His story is a parable for the wider cryptocurrency community.

Is Binance.US a Fake Exchange?: Billions in customer funds transferred directly from Binance.US to offshore Binance exchange. Is this just a ploy to trick regulators?

Arthur Armanino: A closer look at a crypto accounting firm with a knack for finding trouble...

Blockchain evidence suggests Genesis Block was a front for Alameda Research : Customer transfers to Genesis Block were sent directly to Alameda's addresses. What kind of hedge fund was this?

One of these stablecoins is not like the others...: A look at the reserves backing the three largest stablecoins in the crypto-conomy.