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[FBI Report: Cryptocurrency ATM Scams Cause $240 Million in Losses in the First Half of 2025, Several States Consider Restrictions] Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows that cryptocurrency ATM scams resulted in $240 million in losses in the first half of 2025, approximately double the amount during the same period in 2024. Spokane, Washington, has completely banned cryptocurrency ATMs, becoming the largest city in the U.S. to implement such a ban. Additionally, Arizona, Arkansas, Vermont, and St. Paul, Minnesota, are discussing similar restrictions. Currently, 80% of cryptocurrency ATMs worldwide are located in the United States.

[Tennessee Requires Kalshi and Other Platforms to Cease Sports Prediction Services] Tennessee regulators have demanded that Kalshi, (Polymarket, and Crypto.com) stop offering sports event prediction services to residents of the state, accusing these companies of operating without the necessary licenses and violating Tennessee gambling laws. These companies must cease related operations, cancel outstanding contracts, and refund deposits by January 31, with violations potentially facing fines of up to $25,000 per instance and criminal charges.

[Starknet Report: State Conflict Causes 18-Minute On-Chain Activity Rollback] On January 11, Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet released a report analyzing the cause of a brief mainnet outage earlier this week. The report indicated that inconsistencies between the execution layer and the proving layer states, under specific combinations of cross-function calls and rollbacks, led to errors in the execution layer's recording of rolled-back state writes. This caused transaction execution anomalies, with related transactions failing to achieve L1 finality confirmation. The incident triggered block reorganization, resulting in approximately 18 minutes of on-chain activity being rolled back. This marks the second major disruption since 2025; last September, a sequencer vulnerability caused an outage of over 5 hours and rolled back approximately 1 hour of on-chain activity.

[An address transferred $2.2 million worth of TRUMP to Binance, with an estimated loss exceeding 50%] On January 11, according to monitoring by onchainschool.pro, early this morning, a wallet address transferred $2.2 million worth of TRUMP tokens to Binance. Most of these tokens were withdrawn from a centralized exchange approximately 8 months ago, with an estimated actual loss of about $2.5 million, representing a loss rate of over 50%.

[Truebit Hacker Launders 8,535 ETH Through Tornado Cash] The computation verification platform Truebit was exploited due to a vulnerability, resulting in the theft of 8,535 ETH (approximately $26.36 million). The hacker completed the laundering operation through Tornado Cash on January 11.