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Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ (www.theblock.co)
2 days ago Asset

Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was on May 2020 (www.theblock.co)
7 days ago Bitcoin

Solana grapples with congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and transactions being dropped, due to spam transactions and memecoins (www.theblock.co)
18 days ago

NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised $25M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others (www.theblock.co)
25 days ago

The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for aiding Russian nationals' potential sanctions evasion by building crypto services (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-26 Russia

Worldcoin announces Personal Custody, which saves biometric data captured by the Orb on users' personal devices, and plans to open source the Orb's software (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-23

A commit in Ethereum Foundation's GitHub repository shows the foundation has received a voluntary and confidential enquiry from an unspecified state authority (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-21 Ethereum GitHub

Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-21 Android IOS

The SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-20

Figure Markets, a crypto trading platform developed by Figure Technologies, raised a $60M Series A led by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital, and Lightspeed Faction (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-19

A study by the US Copyright Office and USPTO concludes that existing laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright concerns and there's no need to change IP laws (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-13

Eclipse Labs, which is developing an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain using the Solana Virtual Machine, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-12 Blockchain Ethereum

A Montenegro court rules that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon should be extradited to S. Korea, reversing another court's decision to extradite him to the US (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-8 Korea

A Montenegro appeals court cancels the approval of Do Kwon's extradition to the US, the third time the Terraform Labs co-founder has successfully appealed (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-6

IO Research, a blockchain startup focused on AI infrastructure, raised a $30M Series A led by Hack VC, with Solana Ventures and OKX Ventures among investors (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-6 Blockchain Startup AI

Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-2 Bitcoin Energy

Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-29 Bitcoin

Telegram launches an ad revenue sharing system for channel owners in nearly 100 countries, with a 50/50 split with channel owners, paid out in toncoin (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-29

Bloomberg data: BlackRock's bitcoin ETF set a single day trading volume record of $1.3B+ on February 26, beating its launch day record of $1B+; BTC hits ~$55K (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-27 Bitcoin ETF

Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-27 Blockchain

Research: the all-time, total amount invested in crypto and blockchain-related companies crosses $90B, with ~$1.3B invested across 230+ deals so far in 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-25 Blockchain

Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-17 Startup

Elliptic: an exploit of NFT gaming platform PlayDapp let hackers mint 1.8B PLA tokens, “worth” ~$290M; before the hack, only 577M PLA tokens were in circulation (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-14

Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-6

The US EIA plans to begin surveying crypto miners' electricity use next week; the EIA cited bitcoin rising 50% in recent months as an emergency justification (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-2 Bitcoin

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-1 XRP

Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-30 Startup Decentralize Coinbase

China forms a metaverse working group with members from government, academia, and tech companies like Huawei and Baidu to push for standardization in the sector (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-19 China

The SEC says it is working with the FBI in investigating the false X post about spot bitcoin ETFs (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-11 Bitcoin ETF FBI

Immunefi: crypto users lost $1.8B in hacks and scams in 2023, down 54% YoY, as single incidents grew 90% YoY to 319; Lazarus remained the most prolific attacker (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-29

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