Coin Network reports: Tether recently strengthened its compliance measures, freezing several wallets related to Venezuela's evasion of U.S. oil export sanctions. The move came after a detailed report was released by Reuters. Previously, Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA increased its use of USDT to bypass financial restrictions. In December, Tether voluntarily froze 41 Wallets associated with individuals on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN). A Tether spokesperson confirmed the company's commitment to complying with OFAC's SDN list and continuing to freeze additional wallets suspected of evading sanctions. The escalation coincided with the reimposition of U.S. sanctions ahead of Venezuela's disputed elections.

A spokesperson for Tether remains committed to halting transactions with Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned entities after reports that Venezuela's state-run oil company is using its stablecoin to circumvent sanctions, saying: "Tether respects the OFAC SDN list and is committed to ensuring that sanctioned Addresses are frozen immediately." ”（Cointelgraph）

The ETH MEV-relay bloXroute Lab said it would reject a block list of transactions containing addresses listed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) starting Dec. 18.

The Lastic team announced the first Coretime broker deal (a transaction between buyers and sellers coordinated and facilitated by an intermediary or broker) on the Kusama network. On November 9, 2023, Lastic won the parachain slot by defeating Shiden (Astar) and Turing Network (OAK Network) in a parachain auction on the Kusama network. Over the past week, after negotiations between Lastic and Shiden, Lastic agreed to sell these leases to Shiden in exchange for KSM and Shiden Network Token (SDN). On November 17th, the Shiden network officially took over the leases on-chain, and now Shiden owns them, successfully extending its slot term on Kusama. While Coretime has not yet been deployed on Kusama, this transaction is a proof of concept using an existing parachain model. （PolkaWorld）

Golden Finance reported that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday added a group of cryptocurrency wallets belonging to individuals and companies to its list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), all of which are related to the illegal fentanyl trade. Currently, 6 entities and their digital wallet addresses have been flagged by the government, including 5 individuals and 1 company - Valerian Labs. A total of 17 wallet addresses were identified in OFAC’s actions, covering networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron. Most illegal transactions on the latter two blockchains are received through stablecoins. With the exception of Valerian Labs, all five individuals had their wallets hosted on the same centralized cryptocurrency exchange, where they each received “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.” The transaction in question was not confirmed.

Golden Finance reports that Malaysia Debt Ventures Bhd (MDV) has signed an investment agreement with Kapital DX Sdn Bhd (KLDX) to establish Malaysia’s first venture debt fund listed on the IEO platform. MDV CEO Nizam Mohamed Nadzri said that under the agreement, MDV and KLDX will also cooperate in other areas, including raising funds for projects identified by MDV, developing fundraising products on the KLDX platform and providing due diligence on fundraising activities on the KLDX platform. and monitoring services.