WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The $1.4 million that ISIS-K raised from cryptocurrency donors across Central Asia, Europe, and the Gulf over two years moved quietly, a few hundred dollars at a time, through Tron network wallets built to resemble ordinary digital accounts. On Tuesday, 131 of those wallets went dark.

The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control added 134 cryptocurrency addresses linked to ISIS-Khorasan to its Specially Designated Nationals list on July 1, 2026. Of those, 131 were Tron-based wallets; the remaining three held Monero, a privacy coin whose architecture makes tracing and freezing funds technically impossible. Tether, the largest dollar-pegged stablecoin issuer by market capitalization, froze ...