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by over 107% on Tuesday, then slipped 25%, as investors believed that BlackRock was involved in a fund tokenization project on the Hedera blockchain.that BlackRock’s ICS U.S. Treasury money market fund had been tokenized on the Hedera blockchain in collaboration with Archax. Hedera supporters on social media beganabout potentially misleading marketing from Hedera. The token is currently up 50% over the past 24 hours trading at 13 cents.
Stablecoin issuer Tether has said it will freeze wallets using USDT to evade sanctions on oil exports in Venezuela. The decision comes after Reuters reported that Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA increased its use of tether to bypass renewed U.S. sanctions on oil exports. The firmtied to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals list in December. “Tether respects the OFAC SDN list and is committed to working to ensure sanction addresses are frozen properly,” a Tether spokesperson told CoinDesk.
The former CEO's attorneys argued he should serve no jail time, citing the fine he paid and his"extraordinary acceptance of responsibility." Attorneys with the DOJarguing he should spend 36 months in prison and pay a $50 million fine after he pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act last November. Hours later, Zhao's defense team filed, saying,"no defendant in a remotely similar BSA case has ever been sentenced to incarceration.
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