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By Julie Binoche
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Wallet Rotation and the "ThirdParty" Reserve Play. Ari Redbord from TRM Labs was direct about what the firm saw.
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TRM Labs' Broader Role — and the TRON Connection. Here's where it gets complicated in a different way.
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What's Actually Unresolved. The HTX situation isn't close to settled. The wallet rotation accusations are serious.
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Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs went public with a blunt accusation: HTX, the crypto exchange owned by Justin Sun, rapidly rotated its wallet infrastructure after UK…
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The UK sanctions against Huobi Global S.A. weren't minor. Regulators alleged the company was used by Russia's A7 Network to dodge international sanctions — a serious charge that…
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Ari Redbord from TRM Labs was direct about what the firm saw. HTX's wallet changes, he said, look like a strategy to outpace static list screenings — the standard method…
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But there's a separate problem sitting alongside the wallet rotation story. After the UK sanctions hit, HTX quietly shuffled its reserve disclosures.
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HTX hasn't clarified who those custodians are. Not yet.
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The connection between HTX and Huobi Global S.A. keeps pulling investigators back. Shared trademarks, overlapping operational claims — the two entities are clearly not as…
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Here's where it gets complicated in a different way. TRM Labs isn't just pointing fingers at HTX from the outside.
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So TRM Labs is, basically, simultaneously scrutinizing an exchange owned by Sun while partnering with Sun's blockchain network on a financial crime initiative.
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The T3 unit's work matters beyond the HTX situation. USDT flows on TRON are massive — the network carries an enormous share of global stablecoin volume, and illicit actors have…
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The HTX situation isn't close to settled. The wallet rotation accusations are serious. The "ThirdParty" reserve category is still unexplained. The Huobi Global S.A.
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Crypto exchanges operating across jurisdictions have always faced pressure to show clean books and transparent structures.
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