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Paxos, a leading regulated blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, and Solidus Labs, the category-definer for crypto-native trade surveillance and risk monitoring, announced the renewal and expansion of their engagement.

Solidus Labs, the category-definer for Agentic-Based Compliance in trade surveillance and risk monitoring, has released a new investigative report, “Account Takeover Meets Market Abuse: The Rise of Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime.” The report details how compromised retail accounts are being hijacked and weaponized for market manipulation —bypassing siloed cybersecurity, fraud, and legacy surveillance systems in the process.

Solidus Labs, the category-definer in trade surveillance and risk monitoring for digital and traditional asset classes, today announced the launch of Agentic-Based Compliance, a groundbreaking model for surveillance operations that leverages a network of AI agents to deliver exponential efficiency, precision, and intelligence across the entire trade surveillance and transaction monitoring investigation lifecycle.

Solidus Labs, the category-defining leader in cross-asset trade surveillance and risk monitoring, launched the first-of-its-kind Trade Surveillance Academy (TSA), a publicly available training program designed to address the knowledge gap in the emerging field of trade surveillance.

Solidus Labs, a category definer for crypto-native security and compliance, published this morning the first comprehensive whitepaper addressing risk management for block-building and the staking ecosystem. The paper – “Navigating Risks in the Staking and Block-Building Ecosystem” - was developed by the Solidus Labs team with contributions and review from leading subject matter experts, including Michael Mosier, Rebecca Rettig, Dr. Mikołaj Barczentewicz, Evan Zinaman, Eric Medoff and Nathan Catania.

Solidus Labs, a category-definer in crypto-native security and compliance, announces today a collaboration with Figment, a leading blockchain infrastructure and staking services provider. This collaboration introduces Staking Guard, a cutting-edge risk mitigation solution explicitly tailored for institutional Ethereum Validators. Staking Guard is now available for all Figment Ethereum clients as a premium opt-in solution.

FalconX, the leading institutional digital asset prime broker and Crypto’s first CFTC-registered swap dealer, today announces a partnership with Solidus Labs, a pioneer in crypto-native compliance and security solutions. Through this collaboration, FalconX aims to bolster its trade surveillance and transaction monitoring capabilities, ensuring robust detection coverage of suspicious activities across FalconX360, its prime brokerage platform.

HashKey Global, one of the flagship global digital asset exchanges under HashKey Group, announced today its partnership with Solidus Labs, a pioneer in crypto-native compliance and security solutions. By leveraging Solidus' technology, HashKey Global was able to swiftly establish comprehensive surveillance capabilities across both spot and soon-to-be-launched derivatives markets on HashKey Global, its newly launched Bermuda-licensed exchange.

BitMEX, one of the world’s largest crypto trading platforms, announced today the expansion of its partnership with Solidus Labs, a category-defining crypto-native market integrity solutions provider. Building upon the success of their initial collaboration which focused on transaction monitoring, BitMEX and Solidus Labs are now extending their partnership to further bolster trade surveillance capabilities and fortify the integrity of crypto derivatives trading.

Solidus Labs, the category-definer for crypto-native integrity solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Amber Group, a leading provider of digital wealth management and crypto liquidity solutions. The collaboration aims to integrate HALO, Solidus’ comprehensive crypto-native trade surveillance and market integrity hub, into Amber Group’s platform to enhance risk monitoring, prevent market abuse, and ensure greater compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.

The latest market manipulation report from Solidus Labs, a category-definer for crypto-native trade surveillance and risk monitoring, has found that crypto token deployers and liquidity providers have wash-traded at minimum $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs) since 2020.

In a new study, Solidus Labs, a category-definer for crypto and DeFi-native market surveillance and risk monitoring, has found that insider trading in crypto is far more prevalent than previously reported. Data from Solidus HALO’s DEX-based insider trading detection tool shows evidence that insiders have traded against more than half of all ERC-20 token listing announcements on major centralized exchanges since 2021.1

Crypto has an insider trading problem: Research shows that insiders may trade ahead of as many as 25% of all token listings using Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs), suggesting that the recent enforcement actions against insiders at centralized exchanges and NFT marketplaces could be the tip of the iceberg.

BitMEX, one of the world’s largest crypto trading platforms, announced today that it has partnered with Solidus Labs to provide transaction monitoring across BitMEX’s platform. BitMEX integrated HALO, Solidus’ Unified Market Integrity Hub in October 2022, as part of its mission to provide the highest compliance standards for its cutting-edge trading platform.

Crypto market integrity and risk monitoring leader Solidus Labs announced today the launch of a new real-time on-chain Threat Intelligence tool, designed to help anti-money laundering (AML) teams proactively and preemptively address one of DeFi and Web3’s biggest challenges - smart contract scams. The solution represents a paradigm shift in DeFi risk monitoring, compliance and AML methodologies, which have so far taken a largely retroactive approach to identifying crypto scams and blocking their money flows.

Binance Canada, the affiliate of one of the world's leading blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure providers, announced today it has selected crypto market integrity leader, Solidus Labs, as a transaction monitoring and marketplace surveillance partner in Canada. As part of the partnership, Binance Canada will utilize HALO, Solidus’ crypto-native market integrity hub, to optimize multiple key risk monitoring and compliance services including marketplace surveillance, transaction monitoring, FINTRAC Suspicious Transactions Reporting (“STR”) and Large Virtual Currency Transaction Reporting (“LVCTR”) and institutional onboarding.

Oasis Pro Markets, the first US-regulated alternative trading system (“ATS”) designed to trade digital assets for digital cash, today announced it has selected crypto-native risk monitoring and market integrity leader, Solidus Labs, as a strategic compliance partner. The partnership will enable Oasis to continue its dramatic growth following an oversubscribed $27 million funding round earlier this year, while also continuously ensuring the highest standards of institutional-grade compliance and risk monitoring available in the digital asset markets.

Solidus Labs, the leading crypto-native market integrity and risk monitoring firm, announced that it has appointed Dawn Stump, former Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as a strategic advisor to the company. In this role, Stump will provide advice and support the firm’s regulatory engagement and policy development strategy, as Solidus continues to deliver cutting-edge digital asset trade surveillance and risk monitoring technology, and lead the crypto and DeFi industry towards higher market integrity standards.

Crypto-native risk monitoring and market integrity leader, Solidus Labs, launches its inaugural publication of the firm’s Global Crypto Regulation Index (“GCR Index”), providing a point-in-time snapshot of where digital asset regulations currently stand, and ranking key countries and their approaches to regulation that aims to both protect consumers and encourage innovation.

Solidus Labs, the leading global crypto-native market integrity and risk monitoring firm, announced it has appointed Clara Chiu, former Fintech Head and Director of Licensing at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, as a strategic advisor to the company. Her role will include providing insights to the company’s regulatory strategy with a focus in the Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific markets.

Crypto-native market integrity and risk monitoring leader Solidus Labs announced today it has secured a $45 million Series B funding round, led by Liberty City Ventures. Additional funds participating in the round include Evolution Equity Partners which led Solidus’ A-series funding in May 2021, Declaration Partners, Hanaco Ventures, and Avon Ventures, a venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments.

The Crypto Market Integrity Coalition (“CMIC”), an industry-defining pledge initiated by Solidus Labs focused on cultivating safer digital asset markets, is pleased to announce the following new signatories have joined the coalition:

Solidus Labs, the category-definer for crypto-native market integrity solutions, announced today the launch of HALO, the first automated, comprehensive and testable trade surveillance and market integrity hub tailored for digital assets.

CoinDCX, India’s first crypto unicorn and the nation’s safest crypto exchange, announced today that it has selected crypto-native risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs as a strategic compliance partner.

Crypto-native risk-monitoring and market surveillance leader Solidus Labs (“Solidus”) proudly announces that it has been awarded Best Market Surveillance Solution of the Year at the Global Investor Group’s Futures & Options World (“FOW”) International Awards Ceremony held in London yesterday. This is the first time a crypto-native firm has been celebrated for this achievement.

Crypto-native risk monitoring and market surveillance leader Solidus Labs announced today it has closed a strategic round of $15 million, six months after announcing a $20 million A-round in May. Liberty City Ventures is leading the strategic round, which also includes Exor Seeds and GSR, one of the world’s leading crypto trading firms.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / July 22, 2021 / Solidus Labs, a market leader in crypto-native risk monitoring, market surveillance, and fraud-prevention, announced today it welcomes Kathy Kraninger, former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Kraninger, who served as CFPB Director from 2018 to 2021, will lead Solidus Labs' regulatory strategy, as the company - which recently announced a $20

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 23, 2021 / AlphaPoint , a leading provider of digital asset exchange infrastructure, and Solidus Labs , a category-definer in crypto risk monitoring and market surveillance, announced today a partnership designed to support growing demand for advanced risk monitoring standards amongst digital asset firms. Since 2013, AlphaPoint's technology has been used by over 150 platforms in over 35 countries. In the first

Evolution Equity Partners is leading the round, which also includes prominent financial institutions and former CFTC and SEC leaders NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / May 24, 2021 / Crypto-native risk monitoring and market surveillance leader Solidus Labs announced today it has secured $20 million as part of its series A funding round, led by Evolution Equity Partners. Additional participating investors include Hanaco Ventures, which led Solidus

The regulatory-driven exchange will now also utilize Solidus Labs for transaction monitoring to provide industry-leading risk monitoring standards to investors. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / May 17, 2021 / Solidus Labs, a crypto risk monitoring leader, announced today that BlockQuake™, a regulatory-driven digital asset trading platform designed by finance veterans and traders, has expanded the two firm's partnership to include