稳健,是 Gate 持续增长的核心动力。
真正的成长,不是顺风顺水,而是在市场低迷时依然坚定前行。我们或许能预判牛熊市的大致节奏,但绝无法精准预测它们何时到来。特别是在熊市周期,才真正考验一家交易所的实力。
Gate 今天发布了2025年第二季度的报告。作为内部人,看到这些数据我也挺惊喜的——用户规模突破3000万,现货交易量逆势环比增长14%,成为前十交易所中唯一实现双位数增长的平台,并且登顶全球第二大交易所;合约交易量屡创新高,全球化战略稳步推进。
更重要的是,稳健并不等于守成,而是在面临严峻市场的同时,还能持续创造新的增长空间。
欢迎阅读完整报告:https://www.gate.com/zh/announcements/article/46117
Crypto scammer gets 8 years for $40M eEmpowerCoin, ECoinPlus scams
A man at the center of a massive crypto Ponzi scheme will spend nearly eight years behind bars after a federal judge handed down a 97-month prison sentence in Brooklyn on Friday.
Dwayne Golden, 57, was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering for his role in orchestrating scams through three digital asset firms, EmpowerCoin, ECoinPlus, and Jet-Coin, which defrauded investors out of more than $40 million, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Federal prosecutors said Golden and his partners promised guaranteed returns from crypto trading that never took place. Instead, funds were funneled into repaying earlier investors or lining the conspirators’ pockets, classic hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
The companies folded shortly after collecting investor deposits, leaving victims with heavy losses.
Fake crypto trading firms
The scam operated between April and August 2017. Golden, along with Gregory Aggesen and Marquis Egerton (also known as Mardy Eger) falsely marketed their firms as international crypto traders.
After their companies collapsed, Golden and his co-defendants attempted to obstruct both a Federal Trade Commission probe and a federal grand jury investigation, including by destroying evidence and providing false information.
“Golden and his co-defendants offered no legitimate services and none of the companies engaged in any actual trading in cryptocurrency as they claimed,” United States Attorney Joseph Nocella said, describing the scheme as an exploitation of investor excitement over new technology.
Golden was also ordered to forfeit approximately $2.46 million. Co-defendant William White received a 30-month sentence, while Aggesen and Egerton are awaiting sentencing.
FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia called the conspiracy “an elaborate scheme rooted in deceit and false promises to swindle investors.” He stressed that Golden’s actions showed “an utter disregard for integrity” and praised the sentence as a warning to other would-be scammers.
The DOJ asked investors who suffered losses from the scheme to submit restitution claims through the FBI’s dedicated portal.
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Five plead guilty in $37M crypto scam
In a similar incident, earlier this month, five men pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $36.9 million crypto scam that defrauded Americans and funneled funds to a crypto scam center in Cambodia.
The defendants targeted victims through social media, messaging apps, and dating platforms, luring them with false promises of profitable crypto investments.
So far in 2025, over $2.1 billion has been stolen in crypto-related incidents, with most losses tied to wallet compromises and key mismanagement, CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu said.
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