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The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated crypto exchange BitBank on Thursday, alleging the platform channeled hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and also blacklisted the exchange's software developer plus three associates of Iranian financier Babak Zanjani. The immediate channel is compliance rather than spot price: sanctioned wallet clusters force exchanges, OTC desks, and stablecoin issuers to screen and freeze linked addresses, tightening counterparty risk and marginally reducing gray-market BTC liquidity. Watch whether OFAC publishes specific wallet addresses and whether major venues such as Coinbase and Tether act on them, since an expanding designation list keeps the illicit-finance overhang on crypto market structure alive even as BTC beta stays driven by macro flows.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around BTC, COIN.
Original Source: BeInCrypto
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