Blockchain Intelligence Group Strikes Deal with NYC-Based Blockpliance to Expand U.S. Presence and Grow Latin American Clientele Vancouver, Canada – 02/24/2025 – Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG), a global leader in blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency compliance solutions, is pleased to announce a strategic agreement with NYC-based @blockpliance to transition Blockpliance’s client portfolio, sales pipeline, and key digital assets to BIG. This move broadens @blocksearch position in the U.S. market while expanding its reach into the rapidly growing Latin American compliance space. Blockpliance was founded with the mission of providing advanced blockchain compliance solutions to financial institutions and fintechs. Through years of innovation and customer collaboration, Blockpliance built a strong reputation for helping companies navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency compliance across the U.S. and Latin America. “We’re excited to welcome Blockpliance’s clients and partners to Blockchain Intelligence Group,” said Lance Morginn, President of Blockchain Intelligence Group. “This agreement accelerates our ability to serve financial institutions and regulators in key U.S. and Latin American markets, allowing us to deliver best-in-class blockchain intelligence solutions to a broader audience.” As part of the agreement, Guillermo Fernandes, Blockpliance’s Founder and CEO, will join Blockchain Intelligence Group’s advisory board. Guillermo brings extensive expertise in financial technology and blockchain compliance, and his insights will help guide BIG’s strategy as the company continues to innovate and expand its global footprint. “By partnering with Blockchain Intelligence Group, we are ensuring that our clients will have access to the most comprehensive and advanced blockchain compliance tools available,” said Guillermo Fernandes. This transition reinforces Blockchain Intelligence Group’s commitment to providing robust compliance solutions that empower organizations to operate securely and transparently in the digital asset space. Blockpliance’s technology and customer relationships will complement BIG’s existing offerings, accelerating product innovation and enhancing customer service. For more information about Blockchain Intelligence Group and this strategic agreement, visit blockchaingroup.io or email us at info@blockchaingroup.io. On behalf of Blockchain Intelligence Group Lance Morginn President Lance@BlockchainGroup.io D: 778.819.8702

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Defi Solutions & Services (DSS) Acquires Blockpliance Infrastructure to Accelerate Banking’s Integration with Real-Time Stablecoins and Other Digital Assets ow.ly/vp8G50V6L8T #fintech #blockchain #crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

Defi Solutions & Services (DSS) Acquires Blockpliance Infrastructure to Accelerate Banking’s Integration with Real-Time Stablecoins and Other Digital Assets 2/25/2025 2:00pm CT, Memphis, Tennessee Defi Solutions & Services is pleased to announce the acquisition of Blockpliance's advanced AI-driven blockchain intelligence infrastructure and node management technology. This move accelerates DSS’s overarching goal to serve traditional financial institutions with the rapidly evolving Web3 ecosystem—primarily through its flagship product, LedgerLink.ai . By integrating Blockpliance’s compliance risk analytics into LedgerLink.ai , DSS will equip banks and financial institutions with enhanced analysis of real-time stablecoin and digital asset settlement data, bridging a critical infrastructure gap between legacy banking systems and blockchain-based finance. “As the financial industry increasingly interacts with blockchain-based assets, banks face significant technical hurdles in handling real-time transactions, tokenized assets, and stablecoin integration,” said Guillermo Fernandes , Blockpliance’s co-founder and CEO. “This acquisition by DSS—and the integration of our technology into LedgerLink.ai—provides banks with tools they need to navigate the future of digital finance. Blockpliance has screened over two billion transactions in seven countries” As part of the transaction, Dr. Donald J. Patterson, Blockpliance's co-founder and former CTO, will join DSS to drive AI and analytics strategy, overseeing the integration of Blockpliance’s cutting-edge risk modeling technology into LedgerLink’s digital asset platform. “With this acquisition, DSS leapfrogs years of development and establishes itself as a leader in financial-grade digital asset solutions,” said Greg Sossaman, CEO of DSS. “Blockpliance’s infrastructure is both elegant and meticulous. It adds new capabilities to LedgerLink, enabling our firm to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant blockchain services to traditional finance—well ahead of industry trends.” Blockpliance’s AI-enabled technology stack, designed for large-scale blockchain analysis and risk management, will strengthen LedgerLink’s ability to deliver seamless, real-time digital asset solutions that integrate directly with existing banking infrastructure. “We’re thrilled to welcome Don, who brings extensive experience from Blockpliance in delivering AI solutions at scale, to DSS,” added Greg Sossaman. “Together, we’re redefining the intersection of blockchain and traditional finance, enabling banks to operate with the speed, security, and intelligence required for the next generation of digital assets.” For more information, please visit ledgerlink.ai

Happy Valentine's Day! Just a reminder that scammers love to leverage days like today, where people's emotions get in the way of their judgment. Don't click on text message links received from phone numbers you don't recognize.

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People pay more attention when Elon says it.

This is coming from our CEO - who sees over 100 scam cases a month. what hope is left for the regular retail investor?

Ross is a free man. Promise made, promise kept. The bitcoin community owes a lot to this man, despite his product not being good for the world and a very convoluted story, Bitcoin adoption truly depended on SilkRoad.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Bank of America CEO says the banking industry will embrace cryptocurrency if regulators allow it.

Even Mickey Mouse would do a better job. Bullish on crypto 🚀

the $TRUMP hype is insane. Amazing how memecoins are becoming mainstream.

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Stablecoins are changing the way companies think about international expansion

GM. Today's update on the cold storage hack which happened this week and the user lost his life savings (7 figures). For context watch this first - youtube.com/live/A5os37wUgbw The idea is to BLACKLIST ANY funds that INTERACT with the hacked wallet. Here is a post from @blockpliance: "We are hoping investigators can use this information to freeze stolen funds once they hit any of your services. Please use the addresses below as victim addresses: BTC - 3QKcHPfagav8nLZceBe6aysmR3osHbwHA6 BTC - bc1q52awlsl9y9j5kv9k3r33wj6kjm84e85f86x5c3 Solana - 6Rd6Vu5u4rRQ5XrGz8ZUTbe8HhPcnpKZA26xJbiYh9K2 ETH, USDC, USDT - 0xB3Aa644DFc83081dED5e605D81E721CCA93fb693 One of our partners referred this victim to us. To be clear, we don't provide victim or recovery services, and we do our best to help people in need with guidance and referrals to law enforcement and lawyers in our community when we can. Victim was swept out of their Coinbase, MEXC, and Ledger wallets, about 24 hours ago. Funds are on the move but have not yet hit any major exchange, it's your time to shine and stop them if they reach your service! This is an ongoing investigation, and - If you freeze any funds let us know and we'll get you in touch with the law enforcement agents involved. It is unclear which method was used to take over the customer's account, but the initial hypothesis is that the computer was infected with some sweeper malware. If you work at @trmlabs @elliptic @chainalysis Feel free to blacklist the wallets - if your team would like documentation to do so, reach out to our team or me directly and we'll share what we collect in our supporting evidence process. Let's see if a community effort can make a holiday miracle happen for this victim! NOTE: Moving forward a standardized process should be put in place to combat these unfortunate hacks when they do happen. Also, @coinbase @binance @krakenfx @bitgetglobal and all other exchanges feel free to freeze these wallets. Maybe @zachxbt can join in and we can see just how this happened.

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𝐃𝐚𝐲 8 𝐨𝐟 "12 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒐-𝒎𝒂𝒔" 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 🎄 🎅 Today’s spotlight reveals a $100M scam case shared by our friends at @BlockUnmasked. This investigation, involving Coeus, Adrian Cheek, and RileyCate, LLC, has led to an active class action lawsuit encouraging victims to claim their losses. Disclosed Ethereum addresses below: -0xa5dac7 -0x652c55 -0xc39eb5 -0xb425d2 Operating under names like EfinanceLua, Efinanceb2c, and FDEXBAR, scammers used Facebook groups to target Asian citizens, building trust over months via WhatsApp. Victims were lured into fake crypto trading managed accounts, often sending funds through platforms like @coinbase and @Bitstamp. One victim, believing their account had grown to $500K, lost over $180K before realizing it was a pig-butchering scam. @BlockUnmasked traced funds laundered through exchanges like @okx, Binance.US, and other non-US exchanges. With RileyCate, LLC’s help, U.S. civil restraining orders were issued and provided to exchanges, allowing for the freezing of identified accounts. The class action continues to grow, with additional stolen wallets being identified. If you or someone you know was affected, join the class action to aid recovery. The scale of this operation is a sobering reminder of the importance of vigilance in crypto, and the reality that victims might be able to recover funds and aid in the disruption of larger criminal networks by coming forward and working with Law Enforcement, Lawyers, and dedicated crypto investigators. We invite you to follow the accounts of BlockchainUnmasked, Coeus, Adrian Cheek, and RileyCate, LLC for updates on this case and other scam networks they identify.

𝐃𝐚𝐲 7 𝐨𝐟 "12 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒐-𝒎𝒂𝒔" 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 🎄 🎅 The seventh day of these series comes from an award-winning fraud fighter we admire, Freddy Massimi III. Freddy is a big advocate for the fight against Human Trafficking and Pig Butchering, also volunteers with Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (@TeamATII) . The address he’s shared with us for this series belongs to a Pig Butchering scam he worked on, which helped uncover a brother criminal network used for laundering funds through decentralized exchanges. Address 1LxK.....zgm is today’s attribution gift to the crime fighting community. Address was used by a pig butcherer to steal a significant amount from a victim, via what the victim thought was a legitimate crypto-investment platform. By leveraging crypto analysis and open-source intelligence, Freddy and his team tracked the movement of these funds across multiple addresses, and worked with law enforcement and key crypto platforms to “flag” the address and its network which helped prevent further washouts and new victims from sending money to this scam operation. Although, in this case full recovery of the client’s funds was not possible, the hard work by Freddy’s team, law enforcement and the exchanges involved helped prevent many more users from falling victims to the fake investment platform. This case highlights the increasing sophistication of crypto scams targeting vulnerable clients and reinforces the need for vigilance and ongoing education. Please follow Freddy for more details on his work as a volunteer for Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (@TeamATII) and Operation Shamrock.