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Polymarket blocks users in France from placing trades, as the country's gaming regulator investigates the platform's compliance with local gambling laws (www.theblock.co)
1 hour ago France

A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed (www.theblock.co)
2 days ago

Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September (www.theblock.co)
3 days ago Bitcoin Coinbase

MicroStrategy says it bought 27,200 bitcoin for roughly $2.03B in cash at an estimated $74,463 per coin, taking its total bitcoin holding to 279,420 (www.theblock.co)
11 days ago Bitcoin

Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting (www.theblock.co)
13 days ago

Bitcoin passes $74K to reach an all-time high amid Donald Trump's early lead in the 2024 US presidential race; bitcoin is up nearly 70% year-to-date (www.theblock.co)
16 days ago Trump Bitcoin

Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it (www.theblock.co)
29 days ago Bitcoin Microsoft

The FBI charges Alabama man Eric Council Jr. with hacking the SEC's X account on January 9, 2024 to post a fake announcement about approving spot bitcoin ETFs (www.theblock.co)
2024-10-18 Bitcoin ETF FBI

Crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial raised $25M led by Ripple and launches Botanical, a futures trading platform in the US currently in closed beta (www.theblock.co)
2024-10-17

Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-10-9

DefiLlama: Coinbase's L2 Ethereum network Base stands at $2.08B in total value locked, up from $430M at the start of 2024, marking a 370% growth year-to-date (www.theblock.co)
2024-9-27 Ethereum Coinbase

Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised a $100M round led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M (www.theblock.co)
2024-9-24 Blockchain

Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a security hack on its hot wallet, resulting in a “minor” loss; PeckShield: the loss was $43M in cryptocurrencies (www.theblock.co)
2024-9-20 Singapore

Trump launches World Liberty Financial, a DeFi lending project on Ethereum underpinned by the WLFI governance token; up to 63% of WLFI to be sold to the public (www.theblock.co)
2024-9-17 Trump Ethereum

Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M in cumulative revenue from more than 1M memecoins created on the platform since its launch in January 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-9-2

Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market (www.theblock.co)
2024-8-12 Bitcoin

Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades that occurred following its withdrawal freeze on July 18 “over the next few days”, after a $230M+ hack (www.theblock.co)
2024-8-8 India

Morpho, a decentralized lending developer, raised $50M led by Ribbit Capital, after raising an undisclosed sum earlier in 2024, and $18M in 2022 (www.theblock.co)
2024-8-2 Decentralize

Some spot ether ETFs say they have received the go-ahead from the SEC and can begin trading on Tuesday (www.theblock.co)
2024-7-23 ETF

Court filing: FTX and the CFTC agree a $12.7B settlement after months of negotiations, pending a judge's approval; FTX will return up to $12.7B to creditors (www.theblock.co)
2024-7-17 CFTC

Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one FOIA request to the SEC concerns its views on ether (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-27 Coinbase

Coinbase debuts “pre-launch markets” on its global and advanced exchanges outside the US, UK, and Canada, for positions on tokens before they hit spot exchanges (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-18 Canada Coinbase

As the EU's MiCA crypto regulation takes effect on June 30, the industry remains uncertain about the ramifications; some stablecoin rules arrive in late 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-11

Zero-knowledge cryptography firm Nexus Labs raised a $25M Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pantera Capital (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-11

M^0, a decentralized stablecoin minting protocol, raised a $35M Series A led by Bain Capital Crypto; the round was structured as equity plus tokens (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-6 Equity Decentralize

Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; IRS had said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised to $24B (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-5 Tax

Avail, a modular blockchain project building “rollup-centric infrastructure”, raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-5 Blockchain

Filing: Dapper Labs, maker of NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs, settles a class action lawsuit for $4M that alleged it violated laws by selling unregistered securities (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-4

FTX sells its remaining 15M Anthropic shares, netting $450M+ and taking its total haul to $1.3B from its original $500M investment, as legal costs pass $500M (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-3

President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto (www.theblock.co)
2024-6-1

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