memecoin $CORONA website www.getcoronamemes.com - Spazio Finanziario website www.spaziofinanziario.it and pages www.clients.spaziofinanziario.com and  www.trading.spaziofinanziario.com - HTXcoin-az" website https://m.htxcoin-az.com - Stock Credit Wallet website https://stockcreditwallet.com - Paycraftv.top"/"Paycraftn.top" websites https://paycraftv.top and https://paycraftn.top - CoinBank Exchange website https://coinbankexchange.icu - Capitalgates wesite https://capitalgates.io - Tux websites https://tuxitu.com and https://tuxamity.com - AquillaFX website https://aquillafx.net and page https://client.aquillafx.net

Abusive offering of memecoin $CORONA blocked. Consob crackdown on abusive crypto traders continues. Eleven sites blacked out.

Consob's interventions in the crypto-assets sector continue due the powers granted by the European sector regulation (Micar).

Consob has ordered the termination of the abusive offer of crypto-assets called "memecoin $CORONA," at the Italian public, which was also promoted through the website www.getcoronamemes.com, lacking previous notification to Consob of the disclosure document (white-paper) required by Micar.

Six websites through which cryptocurrency services were provided without the required authorizations from Micar were, in addition, blocked:

- "Spazio Finanziario" (website www.spaziofinanziario.it and related pages www.clients.spaziofinanziario.com and www.trading.spaziofinanziario.com) - (resolution no. 23460 of 4 March 2025):

- "HTXcoin-az" (website https://m.htxcoin-az.com) - (resolution no. 23457 of 4 March 2025);

- "Stock Credit Wallet" (website https://stockcreditwallet.com) - (resolution no. 23459 of 4 March 2025);

- "Paycraftv.top"/"Paycraftn.top" (websites https://paycraftv.top and https://paycraftn.top) - (resolution no. 23456 of 4 March 2025);

- "CoinBank Exchange" (website https://coinbankexchange.icu) - (resolution no. 23455 of 4 March 2025).

Further interventions against financial abuse also continues. Consob has blacked out the following four unauthorized financial intermediation sites:

- "Capitalgates" (website https://capitalgates.io) - (resolution no. 23453 of 4 March 2025);

- "Tux" (websites https://tuxitu.com and https://tuxamity.com) - (resolution no. 23452 of 4 March 2025);

- "AquillaFX" (website https://aquillafx.net and related page https://client.aquillafx.net) - (resolution no. 23454 of 4 March 2025).

In aggregate, eleven sites have been blacked out this week. This brings the total number of sites blocked by Consob, since the Authority was given the power in July 2019 to order the blocking of websites of abusive financial intermediaries, to 1247.

The measures adopted by Consob can be consulted on the website www.consob.it . The black-out of these websites by Internet service providers operating on Italian territory is ongoing. For technical reasons, it can take several days for the black-out to come into effect.

Consob draws investors' attention to the importance of adopting the greatest diligence in order to make informed investment choices, adopting common sense behaviors, essential to safeguard their savings: these include, for websites that offer financial services, checking in advance that the operator with whom they are investing is authorized, and, for offers of financial products, that a prospectus or the white paper has been published.

To this end, Consob would remind you that on the website www.consob.it there is a section on the homepage, "Watch for Scams!", providing useful information to warn investors against financially unauthorized initiatives.

6 March 2025