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On October 16, an offline event by the blockchain platform Solana originally scheduled to be held in Shanghai was abruptly canceled. About 8 to 9 law enforcement officers appeared at the venue, and participants waited outside the door for over an hour without being allowed to enter. The chairman of the Solana Foundation said that advertising caused the number of registrations to surge beyond the upper limit reported to local authorities, so a postponement was decided.

On September 14, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a civil forfeiture action seeking to seize approximately $61 million in cryptocurrency, alleging that the Chinese companies Blessed Trust and Hexawell used Binance trading accounts to launder money from Iran's black-market crude oil sales, with the related network having laundered more than $1.5 billion in illicit oil funds.