How a two-tier payment architecture is keeping sanctioned iGaming groups alive after the €4.2M Starscream crackdown.
The Investigation: Beyond the Fine
In January 2026, the Dutch...
French fintech Huch / HuchPay has been added on the RatEx42 Listings platform. RatEx42 assigns an editorial Under Review risk signal with Confirmed evidence...
We’ve published a new evergreen R42 Compliance Listing for Yapily on the R42 Listings platform. It’s designed as a living, updateable reference for merchants,...
RatEx42 has added Chainvalley to the RatEx42 Listings platform as part of our “scoreboard + decision tool” relaunch: turning investigations into a clear, comparable Risk Signal—and tracking how it changes over time. For the current evidence set, Chainvalley is rated ⚫ BLACK (Severe Risk), driven by repeated “fake-fiat / fake banking deposit” patterns reported in offshore casino cashier flows.
Peter Thiel and a coterie of tech heavyweights—including Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and a pair of crypto-native operators—have filed for a U.S. national-bank charter for Erebor Bank, a digital-first lender built for startups and token-economy firms. If approved, the $2 billion-valued venture could become the first federally chartered bank with stablecoins on its balance sheet, rebooting the post-SVB innovation stack and pressuring legacy banks to move faster on crypto rails.
A7A5, a ruble-pegged stablecoin, is officially issued in Kyrgyzstan by the company Old Vector under the country’s new digital asset regulatory framework. Despite its...
1. Executive Summary
YoBit is a cryptocurrency exchange that has operated since 2014, officially registered in Panama as YoBiCrypto Corp. The platform is notable for...
A7A5, a rouble-pegged stablecoin launched this year in Kyrgyzstan, has processed ≈ $9 bn in cross-border transfers despite a market cap under $200 mn....
CoinJoin: Overview and Mechanism
CoinJoin is a privacy-enhancing technique developed for Bitcoin that allows multiple users to combine their transactions into a single, joint transaction....
On 16 June 2025 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entered a stipulated order requiring Paddle.com Market Limited, the London-based “merchant-of-record” payments platform serving...
Malta’s Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is accelerating MiCA approvals for major crypto exchanges at a pace alarming EU regulators, reviving concerns about the island’s...
